Struggling retailer closes flagship Toronto store.
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| Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
This past Sunday Sears Canada closed the door on its
Toronto Eaton Centre location, making way for Nordstrom which will open on the site in 2016.
Sears acquired the store in 1999 with its purchase of the
bankrupt T. Eaton Company. It operated the store under the Eatons banner until
2002 when it converted the location to Sears.
The struggling department store retailer has been selling
store leases as it reorients itself towards a suburban customer. Last year
Sears announced it would be vacating their Toronto Eaton Centre store as part of a $400 million sale of store leases to Cadillac Fairview. Also closing this
week was the Sears location at Sherway
Gardens. Stores at Square One and Yorkdale will close next month.
Below are the flagship store's final
days.
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| Sears Toronto Eaton Centre as seen from Yonge-Dundas Square |
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| Looking into the escalator well on the lower level, Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| The counters are gone at the main level jewellery department, Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| Closing down the main level's cosmetics department, Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| All cleared out on the second level, Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| The empty escalator landing on the second level, Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| Looking for new homes, mannequins await shipment to other Sears stores |
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| Countdown to the end at Sears Toronto Eaton Centre |
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| Everything's for sale including the doors |
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| The road ends here, though Sears corporate offices will remain at the store's uppermost floors |
