January 26, 2006

It's official. Canadian icon store The Bay, one of the oldest corporations in the world, will go into the hands of a South Carolina businessman. Grab your Point Blanket now.
posted by Capt. Renault 18 years ago
  • The Bay jumped the shark after they discontinued the valet canoe parking and complimentary pemmican.
  • Didn't know they owned Zellers. Not that it makes much difference to me--once your dollar got stronger (or, after BushCo killed the US dollar) trips to Windsor didn't carry the lure they once had.
  • "Hudson's Bay heading south." Theme song by Wolfgang Press.
  • It's just a symbolic thing, really -- a lot of Canadian icons have gone into American hands. Molson, Massey Ferguson, Seagram's... Eaton's is gone, Simpsons long before that... But I still have my Stanfield's.
  • *applauds wildly from east coast*
  • *applauds at the post title... very catchy*
  • I guess Zellers can take down the "All Canadian" maple leaf signs...
  • This must be a joke. Bought by Jerry Zucker? Of 'Kentucky Fried Movie' and 'Airplane!' fame? $1.06 billion doesn't sound much. Only the real estate (HBC has a lot of big stores in downtown areas and shopping malls) seems to be worth that. Of course you have to first close the shops and lay off some people, but they make no profit anyway. I've never seen such empty department stores as The Bay. Usually there is more staff than buyers.
  • What's a poor Courier-du-bois like me going to do with all these beaver pelts?
  • There's a lot of room for the Canadian companies to move here now that all of ours are in Southeast Asia and the Caymans!
  • What's a poor Courier-du-bois like me going to do with all these beaver pelts? If you have to ask, you'll never know.
  • What's a poor Courier-du-bois like me going to do with all these beaver pelts? Luxury manties, C.d.b.!
  • Luxury manties, C.d.b.! "Slip into a Beaver™ today!" I'm putting myself on a time-out.
  • *pelts lll*
  • I know what mr layne will be reading during his time-out...
  • If Stanfield's ever comes out with luxury beaver pelt manties, I will be first in line. (Yet another sentence I'd never thought I'd write.)
  • The other Jerry Zucker.
  • I'm reminded of the business suit trappers from Kids in the Hall, hunting businessmen for their pelts (Perry Ellis, Armani, etc). I guess that's the future of HBC.
  • The other Jerry Zucker. One born every minute!
  • Tags, anyone? < i >< /i >
  • Electing Conservatives, Marrying Gays, Selling the Bay....What's next.... Quietly weeps
  • Electing Conservatives, Marrying Gays, Selling the Bay....What's next.... Newly-elected Conservative gays registering their wedding gifts at The Bay?
  • Head explodes at the ironic juxtaposition.
  • Where's "Canada's Greatest Aluminum Crime Fighter", aka Mr. Canoe head? Maybe he can stop this!
  • Ummmmmm. Valet canoe parking. What an incredibly good idea!