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Hello Saks, Goodbye Bay

They did it again. Another national retailer has made a major decision without consulting me first. #Hudson’s Bay Company has decided to relinquish their flagship Queen Street store in Toronto to their newly-acquired Saks. I would have thought that after Cadillac Fairview’s weird decision to put a Florida-style drive-through retail “mall” at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue they would have learned their lesson. When…

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How To Improve Sales At Hudson’s Bay

Hardly a week goes by without our various newspapers analyzing the changing retail scene – the introduction of Target, Ann Taylor, Nordstrom and other American giants into the Canadian market – and how the home-grown Canadian retailers are handling it, particularly Holt Renfrew and Hudson’s Bay. Has anyone talked to us – the consumer? I have a couple of very simple suggestions for Hudson’s Bay…

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