Don't tell your girlfriend, wife, mistress and/or favorite SP. Saks 5th Avenue is now in Toronto.
I give them 2 years 3 max before they fold their tent and close their door.
Don't tell your girlfriend, wife, mistress and/or favorite SP. Saks 5th Avenue is now in Toronto.
I give them 2 years 3 max before they fold their tent and close their door.
I agree, bad timing on Saks part, particularly with the loonie so low. Teaming up with Pusateris will lead to a divorce also. Those ladies who do New York shopping sprees will not visit the Eaton's Centre
Huge target for Organized Retail Crime ($3.6 Billion/year underground economy), professional shoplifters who will steal and sell to flea markets, craigslists and kijiji.
With all the forged credit cards and identity theft going on, shoplifting is soon becoming obsolete.
Don't forget Nordstrom's in the former Sears/Eatons location opening up in the fall.
Will these retailers succeed? It will be a challenge, but Toronto is a wealthy and wanabee city. Old money with deep pockets and young millenials who spend any disposable income on clothes.
Norstroms and Saks cater to the 1%. The rest of us shop at Wal-Mart. I would also imagine that the vast majority of Torontonians would rather spend $1million on a house than $100,000 on a watch.I made a few dollars today on Norstroms their earnings flopped missed projections blames on the warm weather and other excuses but the wallets are tightening folks
HBC did an aboutface, ditching Zellers and buying Saks.