The Bay
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| Type | Department store |
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| Founded | 1964  |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Industry | Retail |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. |
| Website | www.thebay.com |
The Bay is a chain of 97 fashion department stores that operate across parts of Canada. It is the main brand of the Hudson's Bay Company, Canada's oldest company. Although the Hudson's Bay Company opened its first department store in 1881, the name "The Bay" appeared only in 1964 when the Hudson's Bay Company decided to change the name of its Morgan's department stores with the exception of those located in Quebec, which would be converted to the new name only in 1972. In Quebec the chain is known as la Baie, short for "Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson", and the chain uses both the English and French versions of the name in some parts of the country.
The stores are full-line department stores, with a focus on apparel, accessories, and home goods. Most price points are mid- to upper-mid; however there is an assortment of everyday low-price merchandise. The Bay can be compared to U.S. retailer Macy's, and is more up-market than Sears Canada department stores. The average store is 135,000 square feet (12,500 m²). Flagship downtown stores exist in Canada's largest cities, including Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. These stores are larger in size and carry a much broader range of goods than their suburban counterparts. The Bay is a division of the Hudson's Bay Company, Canada's largest department store retailer and oldest corporation.
In 1991, the Bay agreed to stop selling fur after 331 years in response to widespread public sentiment opposing killing animals for this purpose.[1] However, in 1997 they reopened their fur salons. Animal rights groups such as Freedom for Animals have been campaigning to get the Bay to once again stop selling fur.
Recent additions to larger (namely flagship stores) of the Bay include the Style Outlet and Pharmamart sections. Style Outlets, off-price departments located in 14 stores, offer designer labels at discounted prices, much like the Winners chain. This department, introduced in 2003, was the launching pad for HBC's newest division, Designer Depot, which launched in the fall of 2004.
Pharmamart is a centre that includes basic grocery and household items and among other amenities, a pharmacy. This can be interpreted as an attempt to compete directly with Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal-Mart or others, and also as a response to the success of the basic grocery addition in the modern Zellers prototype.
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[edit] Locations
[edit] Alberta
- Banff - Banff
- Calgary - Market Mall
- Calgary - Southcentre Mall
- Calgary - Downtown Calgary
- Calgary - Chinook Centre
- Calgary - Sunridge Mall
- Edmonton - Kingsway Garden Mall
- Edmonton - Londonderry Mall
- Edmonton - Southgate Centre
- Edmonton - The Bay Edmonton City Centre
- Edmonton - West Edmonton Mall
- Lethbridge - Lethbridge Centre Mall
- Medicine Hat - Medicine Hat Mall
- Red Deer - Bower Place
- St. Albert - St. Albert Centre
[edit] British Columbia
- Abbotsford - Sevenoaks Shopping Centre
- Burnaby - Lougheed Town Centre
- Burnaby - Metropolis at Metrotown
- Coquitlam - Coquitlam Centre
- Kamloops - Aberdeen Mall
- Kelowna - Orchard Park Shopping Centre
- Langley - Willowbrook Shopping Centre
- Nanaimo - Woodgrove Centre
- Penticton - Cherry Lane Shopping Centre
- Prince George - Parkwood Shopping Centre
- Richmond - Richmond Centre
- Surrey - Guildford Town Centre
- Vancouver - Oakridge Centre
- Vancouver - Downtown Vancouver
- Vernon - Village Green Mall
- Victoria - Mayfair Shopping Centre
- Victoria - Downtown (The Bay Centre)
- West Vancouver - Park Royal Shopping Centre
[edit] Manitoba
- Winnipeg - Downtown Winnipeg
- Winnipeg - Polo Park Shopping Centre
- Winnipeg - St. Vital Shopping Centre
[edit] New Brunswick
- Moncton - Highfield Square Shopping Centre
[edit] Nova Scotia
- Dartmouth - Mic Mac Mall
- Halifax - Halifax Shopping Centre Annex
- Sydney - Mayflower Mall
[edit] Ontario
- Barrie - Georgian Mall
- Brampton - Bramalea City Centre
- Brampton - Shoppers World Brampton
- Burlington - Burlington Mall Opened in former Sears, 1991.
- Burlington - Mapleview Shopping Centre
- Cambridge - Cambridge Centre
- Etobicoke - Sherway Gardens
- Hamilton - Lime Ridge Mall Opened as Eaton's, 1983. Relocated from original location which opened as Robinson's, 1983, Converted to The Bay, 1992, now mall space
- Kingston - Cataraqui Town Centre
- Kitchener - Fairview Park
- London - Masonville Place
- London - White Oaks Mall
- Markham - Markville Shopping Centre
- Mississauga - Erin Mills Town Centre
- Mississauga - Square One Shopping Centre
- Newmarket - Upper Canada Mall
- North York - Yorkdale Shopping Centre Originally Simpson's
- Oakville - Oakville Place
- Oshawa - Oshawa Centre
- Ottawa - Freiman Mall, across from Rideau Centre. Opened in 1918 as Freiman's, converted to The Bay in 1972.
- Ottawa - St. Laurent Shopping Centre
- Ottawa (Orléans) - Place d'Orleans
- Ottawa (Nepean) - Bayshore Shopping Centre
- Pickering - Pickering Town Centre
- Rexdale - Woodbine Centre
- Richmond Hill - Hillcrest Mall
- Scarborough - Eglinton Square
- Scarborough - Scarborough Town Centre
- St. Catharines - The Pen Centre
- Stoney Creek - Eastgate Square Opened as Robinson's, 1973, converted to The Bay, 1992.
- Toronto - Bloor Street
- Toronto - Queen Street
- The Bay Queen Street, located at the southwest corner of Queen Street West and Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto, is Canada's largest department store with 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m²) of retail space. The store occupies a full city block and is connected by a skyway over Queen Street to the Toronto Eaton Centre.[2] Fifty-two of this location's Simpsons employees fought in World War II, and are commemorated in a plaque at the south-east entrance. The location offers three restaurants, the Arcadian Court Restaurant, Great Cooks on Eight, and City View Café.
- Waterloo - Conestoga Mall
- Willowdale - Centerpoint Mall
- Willowdale - Fairview Mall
- Windsor - Devonshire Mall Originally Simpson's
[edit] Quebec
- Anjou - Les Galeries d'Anjou
- Brossard - Mall Champlain
- Chicoutimi - Place du Royaume
- Dorval - Les Jardins Dorval
- Gatineau - Les Promenades de l'Outaouais
- Laval - Centre Laval
- Laval - Carrefour Laval
- Mount Royal - Centre Rockland
- Montreal - Boulevard Centre
- Montreal - Saint Catherine Street West Opened As Morgan's, 1845, Converted to The Bay, 1972
- Pointe-Claire - Fairview Pointe-Claire
- Quebec City - Galeries de la Capitale
- Quebec City - Place Fleur-de-Lys
- Quebec City - Place Laurier
- Rosemère - Place Rosemère
- Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville - Les Promenades Saint-Bruno
- Saint-Laurent - Place Vertu
- Sherbrooke - Carrefour de l'Estrie
