Talk:Hudson's Bay (department store)

message: Why is the French title used in Ottawa? 81.158.205.240 4 July 2005 01:31 (UTC)
* In Ottawa, the chain uses both The Bay and La Baie.  I suspect they do the same in Moncton.  Skeezix1000 18:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is another Flagship Store for The Bay in Downtown Winnipeg.
Located at 450 Portage Avenue. And it's one of the flagship downtown stores. The 5 Flagship Downtown Stores are Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal. Please do not remove "Winnipeg" from the flagship downtown stores. Please keep it. Okay? Thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steam5 (talk • contribs) 
*Is there an actual flagship designation?  Has the chain officially identified 5 flagship stores?  If not, then I think we should take this revert war down a notch, since there is no officially correct answer (unless someone can point to an official flagship designation source).  There are, however, historical reasons for including Winnipeg, even if the square footage is on the low side, given that HBC had its headquarters in Winnipeg for decades (even when the official head office was in London).  I know Eaton's always used to consider Winnipeg as HBC's home base.  Skeezix1000 18:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bay Flagship Store in Downtown Winnipeg 

message: I'm curious to know the justification is for that.  I apologize that I'm not party to previous discussions that you noted in the revert comment (discussions that seem to be absent from this page), however certain practices can be noted to qualify Rideau as a flagship.  I can back this information up with numerous official websites, including a labour day event adversitment that clearly refers to "downtown flagship Bay stores".
Notable, but not verifiable with any sort of online reference include the free gift card practice on early holiday/weekend mornings.  While normal stores receive and distribute only several hundred of these cards, Rideau receives nearly a thousand.  One might point to volume/traffic as a reason for this, however it's not a big secret that flagships celebrate their status with promotions and instore events at a rate beyond that of smaller stores.  On statutory holidays (like the Labour day event, for instance) cards will be specially printed with the dates and the promotion.  The cards read "valid at all flagship stores in..." (listing all the flagship stores) and the merchandising that is blatantly different between flagship designates and regular stores.  Even a simple google search with the terms hbc, rideau, flagship results in a list of official (although often cached) documents that clearly reinforce this claim--one such being the Santa event, with wording that makes it as clear as the previous reference that Rideau/Ottawa is in fact a flagship. --Kmeister 19:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the revert of the Ottawa flagship 

message: Understanding the evidently contentious nature of the original contribution, I have revised it.  I'm posting it here first--to discuss it--rather than unnecessary reverts:
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Recent additions to larger (namely flagship stores) of the Bay include the Pharmamart, a centre that includes basic grocery and household items and among other amnetities, 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 Zeller's prototype.
	
*Do you think that they are trying to compete with Wal-Mart through the introduction of a (relatively small) Pharmamart, or are they simply trying to lure shoppers into their flagship stores by offering that a product line (groceries) that is not widely available in the downtowns?  I don't know the answer.  Other than that observation, it looks fine.  Skeezix1000 13:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous revert 

message: I just made an additonal edit here for grammar and for clarification.  The Bay didn't stop selling leather products in 1991 so it wasn't a decision based on merely killing animals for products, but the public's/activist's perception that it was done inhumaely. 
I should also mention that the CBC archive isn't the best reference for the statement because the interviewed Bay executive does not say that the decision was based on protest or acknowledge it as the actual cause for the drop in sales. Coolbrook76 00:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fur 

message: In the early 1970s, the Bay began to open some suburban-style department stores, such as two single-storey Horizon stores in London, Ontario, but within a decade, they were renamed as The Bay.  The northeast London outlet eventually closed and the building was redeveloped as a cinema multiplex.
The Bay also had suburban-style department stores in Whitehorse and other large northern communities such as Yellowknife, Fort Smith, Hay River, as well as "general store" type stores in most northern communities in the NWT (which at the time included Nunavut).  In the very early 1990s, all the northern stores, including the larger ones in Whitehorse and such, were separated into a separate company not associated with Hudson's Bay Company; these northern stores retained "The Bay" name for about two years, then renamed "Northern".  Shortly after the renaming, Northern closed its suburban-style stores in the larger centers and retained its many small "general store" type stores.  It later replaced some of those suburban-type stores with small buildings with the Northern name, but more conforming with the "general store" format and selling goods often found in its far-flung communities.
This information should somehow be incorporated into the article, as it is part of the The Bay story. GBC (talk) 08:58, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horizon and northern operations 

message: Wouldn't this page be better redirected to Bay (disambiguation), the current redirect doesn't seem suitable for a worldwide encyclopedia and there are other places which still have the name "The Bay", not just as a former name. —RedScrees (talk) 13:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I am still keen for "The Bay" to redirect to Bay (disambiguation), rather than Hudson's Bay (retailer), I will make the change if there are no objections or no-one else does it first. –RedScrees (talk) 13:19, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirect change now done. ▲RedScrees (talk) 18:55, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect change? 

message: https://www.ft.com/content/4618d5c4-1c0d-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122
HB is definitely expanding into the Netherlands in the next 2 years.
HBC already owns several dept store chains in Europe.
The source for the original claim is from 2013.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.111.102.74 (talk) 12:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First line: "Operate exclusively in Canada" 

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message: Under number of locations it currently says "85 Full Line and 1 Warehouse Store." As far as I know, the only warehouse store (160 Carrier Drive, Etobicoke ON) closed permanently in July 2023. Unless there's another one I'm not aware of. 50.48.222.85 (talk) 16:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warehouse store