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Zellers Inc. is Canada's second-largest chain of mass merchandise department stores, with 282 locations in communities across Canada. Zellers is headquartered in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, and is a subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Company ("Hbc").

ZELLERS Department Store


Zellers is the mass merchandise division of Hbc with locations in communities nationwide. The chain offers customers value, stylish brands, service, price competitiveness and great value through Every Day Low Prices.


Home Outfitters is Hbc’s kitchen, bed and bath specialty superstore chain with unbeatable selection and service. With locations across Canada, Home Outfitters offers customers more choices, more brands and great ideas. Home Outfitters is Canada’s fastest growing specialty store chain.


Fields is a chain of over 100 small, value-priced general merchandise stores located in western Canada.


In recent years, Zellers.ca has been moving slowly away from the discount department store model, and has introduced better quality merchandise and different customer service concepts. New and remodelled Zellers stores are often compared to that of Target Corporation in the United States.


In June, 1978, Zellers presented a bid to acquire 100% ownership of the Hudson's Bay Company. HBC management, recognizing Zellers' profitability, and the potential to enter a new retail segment, decided to purchase Zellers instead.


As two retailers operating in very different retail segments than HBC, both Zellers and Fields were kept intact, and established as separate divisions of the company. HBC would acquire full ownership of Zellers and Fields in 1981, and Marshall Wells, in 1982. By 1985, the Company had sold Marshall Wells for $20 million, because it was not relevant to its department store business.


Today, Zellers operates stores from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Victoria, British Columbia, and employs over 35,000 people. The average store size is 94,000 square feet (8,700 mē). Zellers Select stores are designed for smaller markets with populations under 25,000, with stores averaging 45,000 square feet (4,200 mē).
 

 
 

Almost every Zellers location features a pharmacy and an in-store restaurant, the 1950s themed Zellers Family Diner. Newer locations are typically larger than 100,000 square feet(9,290 mē), and also feature a hair salon, refrigerated groceries, major appliances, mattresses, and expanded electronics and cosmetics departments. Multi-level stores are gradually being equipped with a new, state-of-the-art shopping cart system known as the "Cartveyor", which is designed to transport carts between floors next to a standard escalator.


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