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rfmcdonaldSears Canada's flagship store in the Toronto Eaton Centre--"the world's largest Sears location in terms of floor area", Wikipedia claims--is set to close in February. Perhaps the highest-profile component of the retail chain's program of shrinkage and hoped-for reconsolidation, the irony of this location closing down is that, once upon a time, it hosted the Canadian flagship store of the Eaton's chain now departed for two decades. (Rod McQueen's The Eatons remains the classic tale of that chain's decline.)
I visited the store last month with my parents, looking for bargains. Everyone was looking for bargains, across the entire store. The entire location had started to take on the look of a declining discount store, with clothes strewn about the racks and tables and pieces of sets gone mysteriously missing. (My mother just managed to find a right glove to go with the left.)
I spent some my time looking at the floor's geometric patterns, and enjoyed the abstraction. I wonder if the next store to take the location over will keep them?
I visited the store last month with my parents, looking for bargains. Everyone was looking for bargains, across the entire store. The entire location had started to take on the look of a declining discount store, with clothes strewn about the racks and tables and pieces of sets gone mysteriously missing. (My mother just managed to find a right glove to go with the left.)
I spent some my time looking at the floor's geometric patterns, and enjoyed the abstraction. I wonder if the next store to take the location over will keep them?
