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42-470: It is the largest mall of the 8 malls in the city, and is the 15th largest shopping centre in Canada, ranking between Guildford Town Centre and Laurier Québec . For census purposes, Polo Park is also the name given to the neighbourhood including and surrounding the shopping centre. The Polo Park Mall opened on Thursday, 20 August 1959, and became one of the first enclosed shopping malls in Canada when

84-546: A 30-day extended return period, a one-percent donation to K–12 schools on almost all purchases, a Visa credit card or a store-only credit card that are available in the United States. Target Canada stores did not accept U.S.-issued REDcards in its stores. Target Canada continued to honour the REDcard throughout its liquidation sales. Robert Motum , a Toronto-based playwright, spent two years interviewing and gathering

126-567: A Target location. Metro's discount supermarket chain Super C would open stores in two former Target stores in Quebec. In October 2015, Target began offering international shipping on goods sold on their online site, which includes Canada. Prices for Canadian shoppers are converted to Canadian dollars , excluding duties and taxes. As of February 2020, Target has discontinued shipping to Canada and other international locations. Source The REDcard

168-482: A brand new SAP inventory software and not giving sufficient time for staff to work out the system's problems, as the parent company refused to push back the planned launch date as they did not want to keep paying rent on unopened stores. Target Corporation's expansion into Canada hoped to capitalize on Canadian shoppers who frequently crossed the border for its U.S. stores. However, this may have backfired as Canadian shoppers felt that Target Canada stores failed to meet

210-552: A buyer for the remaining stores and planned to continue operating Zellers as a smaller chain. However, the geographical constraints of serving these far-flung Zellers outlets meant that operating them was no longer economically viable, so HBC announced on July 26, 2012, that it would close almost all of these stores. In May 2011, Target revealed its first 105 selections and stated that the vast majority of those in this first group would be converted to Target outlets. In September 2011, Target unveiled 84 additional selections, bringing

252-634: A cheaper basket of goods by 19 cents, Walmart had a pricing advantage of 65 percent of the popular items in the basket thanks to its own "Rollback" prices, likely furthering consumers’ current price perceptions. Other American chains operating in Canada did not suffer a backlash from Canada–U.S. pricing disparities as much, likely as Target had hyped its Canadian stores to provide the same experience as their U.S. counterparts. Target projected for its Canadian operations to bring in ten percent of its profits by 2017. However, experts suggested that it wanted too much and too quickly from Canadians, while underestimating

294-694: A job; however, the United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada complained that many Zellers employees were not hired, including those with long years of service. Target confirmed the list of its locations in July 2012. The chain finalized its 127 stores to open in 2013. Of this total, 125 were converted former Zellers stores. The other two locations in Niagara Falls and Centre Laval were sites that had been occupied by Walmart stores. The first Target stores in Canada were opened on March 5, 2013, in

336-795: A new market" by the Financial Post . Target Canada commenced Court-supervised restructuring proceedings in January 2015, and finally shut down all of their stores by April 12, 2015, amid the retail apocalypse in Canada. In the absence of the Target Corporation chain in Canada, several retail companies, without any affiliation to the American company, made use of the "Target" name for various purposes. A regional variety store chain in Newfoundland and Labrador operated under

378-538: A private-label clothing brand, and not as the name of a retail store, and Fairweather would not apply to extend its trademark to cover retail services until April 2011. INC Group opened a small Target Apparel retail store adjacent to the company's head office in December 2003. In late 2010, soon after Target's announcement that it planned to expand into Canada (but before the Zellers announcement), INC began expanding

420-746: A roof was added in 1963, the other being the Park Royal Shopping Centre in BC. The district was once the sports hub of Winnipeg, with the Winnipeg Arena , Canad Inns Stadium , and Winnipeg Velodrome all being located in the Polo Park neighbourhood. The Velodrome was torn down in the 1990s to make way for a strip mall that includes Home Depot and Chapters . The arena and stadium have also since been demolished and replaced by new retail and office complexes. The former CKY building

462-447: Is situated next to the mall. It used to house the city's CTV Television Network affiliate, CKY-TV , CKY radio, and FM 92 CITI . It was the original home of the WTN network. Corus Radio Winnipeg has occupied the building since 2011, as part of a lease agreement between Corus Entertainment and Cadillac Fairview . Studios for CJOB 680, CFPG-FM 99.1 and CJKR-FM 97.5 are located on

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504-894: The Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and that it would close all 133 of its Canadian stores. Two planned new store openings, one at the Harbour Plaza condo project in the South Core of Downtown Toronto , and the Bayshore Shopping Centre in the west end of Ottawa, were cancelled due to the closure. Likewise, plans to open a smaller Target store in the former Zellers location in Lawrence Square Shopping Centre (later renamed Lawrence Allen Centre in late 2019) in Toronto similar to

546-646: The Canad Inns Stadium grounds, adjacent to Scotiabank Theatre —is a mixed-use development that spans over 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m). It features Winners , HomeSense , Urban Behavior , Winnipeg Metropolitan Region Inc. , and the first P. F. Chang's restaurant in Winnipeg. With parking capacity for over 1,200 vehicles, The Plaza was originally built to house Target Canada , which soon after went out of business throughout Canada. Canada%27s largest shopping malls The listing of

588-720: The Windsor, Ontario , stores stocking Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Blue Jays apparel, instead of that of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers , which were more popular in Windsor, given its proximity to Detroit across the Detroit River . Supply chain and demand issues also led to situations where some of the early locations were not adequately stocked in certain product categories, resulting in empty shelves. The supply chain problems were blamed on using

630-465: The CityTarget format were also cancelled and were replaced with two additional public mall entrances, Marshalls , HomeSense and PetSmart by early 2016 (and Structube a few years later but before the mall's renaming). By 2015, the subsidiary had lost $ 2.1 billion and was not projected to make a profit until at least 2021. Target Canada would have been unable to meet its employees' payroll for

672-749: The Ontario communities of Guelph , Fergus , and Milton , being close to one of Target Canada's three distribution centres. Target Canada has its head offices in Mississauga's Airport Corporate Centre in the same building as Pepsico Canada's offices during Target Canada's years of operation. Target Canada had supply chain problems, but its parent company did not want the planned opening date to be delayed, since they did not want to continue paying rent on unopened stores. On March 5, 2013, three Target stores in Milton, Fergus and Guelph, Ontario, were opened to

714-624: The Target banner during the 1980s and early 1990s. There has also been a liquor store named Target Liquor in Edmonton , and a Target convenience store chain based in Toronto. Before it entered Canada, Target Corporation attempted to solidify its rights to the "Target" brand name in Canada by buying the Canadian trademark rights of some of these existing users, in addition to filing new applications of its own. Target's expansion into Canada

756-658: The Zellers stores at the selected locations closed, Target planned to renovate between 125 and 135 of them, and reopen them under the Target banner. Target would sell the remaining 64 to 74 acquired locations to other retailers, including 39 already resold to Walmart Canada . Unlike Walmart's entry to Canada with the acquisition of the Woolco stores in 1994, Zellers employees were not retained by Target nor Walmart, and they had to re-apply for their position to continue working in their same locations. Target Canada stated that former Zellers workers were guaranteed an interview though not

798-482: The banner to other higher-profile locations, including conversions of some of its existing Labels stores. Target challenged INC's rights to the Target Apparel trade name on numerous occasions; INC had succeeded in retaining those rights, but faced a further court challenge with a trial set to start in 2012. On February 1, 2012, it was announced that Fairweather Ltd. and Target reached an agreement concerning

840-623: The complaints on pricing were alarming." Target failed to anticipate that Canadian consumers would expect the retailer to match the lower prices in its U.S. stores, leading to some alienation and confusion, although Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel defended this practice saying "trying to compare prices at Target Canada with that of certain Target stores in the U.S. would be like comparing prices in Boston to prices in rural Iowa ". Deutsche Bank's pricing survey on 31 health, beauty and food items at Canadian Target and Walmart stores found that while Target had

882-477: The country, the tax rates are different, cost of goods are different, the duties — I think the scale we have here in Canada is quite different from the incredibly different, densely populated U.S. marketplace." Because of complexities and other legal requirements, Target's existing distribution network could not be used to service Target's Canadian locations. In addition, Canadian Target stores did not have local authority to order their own merchandise; this resulted in

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924-595: The domestic competition. The disappointing results from Canadian stores were said to be a major reason, along with the January 2014 major security breach, for the resignation of parent company CEO Gregg Steinhafel, though Target reiterated its commitment to the Canadian market. Two weeks after Steinhafel's abrupt departure, Target Canada president Anthony S. "Tony" Fisher was dismissed and replaced by Mark Schindele, who had been serving as Target's senior vice-president of merchandising operations. Subsequent commentators did not blame Fisher, "the odds were stacked against him from

966-469: The earliest. On January 13, 2011, Target announced that it would purchase the lease agreements of up to 220 Zellers stores for C$ 1.825 billion. Under the agreement, Zellers would sublease the properties, and continue to operate them as Zellers locations until at the earliest January 2012 and, at the latest, the end of March 2013. Target did not buy the Zellers chain outright, which was left with 64 stores in less desirable locations. HBC failed to find

1008-461: The former Zellers space on the mall's second level. The redeveloped space included 114,000 sq ft (10,600 m) of retail space and 17 new stores. The space will again be redeveloped in late 2024 and most of 2025 to host a London Drugs location, the chain's second in Manitoba, which is scheduled to open in late 2025. Some tenants in the redeveloped space were relocated to other areas of

1050-882: The high expectations set by their U.S. counterparts. Target Canada enjoyed a strong opening, but subsequent results were disappointing, dragging down its parent company's second-quarter results. Despite the initial high traffic at Target's new stores, customers were not returning frequently enough to these stores to buy the basic household items, as that market was dominated by entrenched Canadian grocery and drug retail chains such as Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart , and Walmart Canada. In addition, while Target Canada aimed to have its customers do "one-stop shopping", Canadian consumers generally pick and choose between different retailers' strengths, often going to different retailers whenever certain items go on sale as evidenced by Canadians sometimes carrying shopping bags from competing businesses. While Target Canada stores were said to be an improvement over

1092-558: The largest shopping centers in Canada is shown as follows: The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m ) and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the number of stores. This is a list of outlets in Canada . This is a list of lifestyle centres and power centres in Canada . Target Canada Target Canada Co.

1134-560: The majority of its locations. A notable Canadian clothing brand, Roots , was "temporarily" sold in Target Canada. Target Canada president Tony Fisher expected that some Canadian consumers would continue to cross the border and shop at Target stores in the United States. Fisher acknowledged that the Canadian stores would not have price parity with their U.S. counterparts, saying "Transportation costs are higher, distribution costs are higher, fuel costs are higher, wage rates vary across

1176-593: The mall, making Polo Park the second largest shopping centre in Canada at the time. In 1986, the mall underwent a $ 75-million renovation that added a second level to the building. This addition was panned by downtown Winnipeg merchants, who voiced their objections to the plan at City Council meetings in 1984; Council approved the expansion nonetheless. The expanded shopping centre opened in mid-August 1986. Another expansion took place in 2007, which added 20,000 square feet (1,900 m) and cost $ 30 million. A new $ 49-million expansion to Polo Park opened 1 October 2014 in

1218-449: The mall, while others' leases were not renewed. Polo Park has also added new retail complexes, which are located on properties adjacent to the north of the mall. Polo North is located on the site of the former Winnipeg Arena and features Marshalls , Mark's , and the new head office of Western Financial. Polo North also used to feature Winnipeg’s only Bed Bath & Beyond, and an Atmosphere store. The Plaza at Polo Park —located at

1260-612: The number of Zellers leases acquired to 189 below the prospective upper number of 220 announced in January. The first store opening cycle would be in March/April 2013, followed by four additional cycles later that year. Zellers locations to be converted were typically closed for six to nine months for significant remodelling and renovation. Target announced plans to hire 27,000 new employees to support its expansion into Canada, including 5,000 in Quebec, and that its food and grocery items in Canada would be supplied by Sobeys . After

1302-405: The process of auctioning off leases and properties to other new owners. Canadian Tire announced plans to acquire 12 locations, Walmart Canada reached a deal to acquire 13 locations (including the aborted Bayshore Shopping Centre location) and one of its distribution centres, and Lowe's also reached a deal to acquire 13 locations and a distribution centre. Giant Tiger also acquired a part of

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1344-464: The provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia . It opened 33 locations between November 13 and 22, including in the provinces of New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador . On March 14, 2014, Target opened three stores in the cities of Toronto , Edmonton and Victoria . On August 1, 2014, it opened three stores in the cities of Barrie , Mississauga and Candiac, Quebec . Target Canada included smaller Starbucks stores in

1386-437: The public and operating as test stores, and a further 17 stores in Ontario opened on March 19, 2013. Four additional stores in Ontario were opened on March 28, 2013, followed by a number of openings in three western provinces on May 6, 2013. On July 16, 2013, Target opened more stores in four provinces, including in the cities of Regina and Saskatoon . Target opened more stores between September 17 and October 18, including in

1428-414: The second floor of the three-story building. After Sears Canada closed its location in December 2017 due to bankruptcy, the anchor was redeveloped between March 2018 and October 2021 to house new tenants. As of 2023, most of the space is occupied by EQ3 and Zara . In the spring of 1968, a $ 7.5-million expansion of Polo Park was completed. The addition brought a three-storey Eaton's department store to

1470-514: The start, given the extremely tight timeline and the thin margin for error." Around the time that Mark Schindele took over, Target Canada had largely sorted out its inventory issues. However, Brian Cornell , who replaced Steinhafel as CEO of the parent company, was a company outsider who had reportedly pushed for Target Canada to be shut down if its financial performance did not improve. On January 15, 2015, Target Canada announced that it had commenced Court-supervised restructuring proceedings under

1512-445: The untidy Zellers stores, some Canadians lamented that they missed the deals found at Zellers. Paul Trussell, retailing analyst at Deutsche Bank , suggested that "traffic has slowed below expectations in recent weeks, driven partly by Canadians’ perception that prices are too high, both relative to Walmart Canada and Target's U.S. locations. While shoppers appreciate the higher quality assortment, especially in discretionary categories,

1554-496: The use of the Target name in Canada. Under this agreement, Fairweather would cease use of the Target Apparel name by 2013, giving Target Canada complete ownership of the Target brand in Canada. Regular rumours surfaced since at least 2004 that Target was interested in expanding into Canada by acquiring Zellers outright. In January 2010, Target publicly indicated long-term plans to expand internationally, likely including Canada, but that those plans would not take effect until 2013 at

1596-428: The week of January 16, 2015, if it had not filed for Court protection from creditors. Liquidation sales began at the stores the following day; Target began to close stores on March 18, 2015, with 58 locations scheduled to close that week, and 58 in total closed by April 5, 2015. The remaining 58 stores closed on April 12, 2015. In May 2015, the company returned some of its leases back to their landlords, and began

1638-460: Was offered in Canada as either a debit card or a credit card. Around 30,000 Canadians signed up for the REDcard prior to Target's opening in 2013. Like its American counterpart, the cards offered a five-percent discount on almost all Target purchases and the debit card allowed up to a $ 60 cash withdrawal. The Canadian version did not offer free online shipping (as online shopping was unavailable in Canada when Target's Canadian operations were active),

1680-808: Was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation , the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga , Ontario , the subsidiary formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases from the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in January 2011. Target Canada opened its first store in March 2013, and by January 2015 was operating 133 locations throughout Canada. Its main competition included Walmart Canada , Loblaws , Shoppers Drug Mart , and Canadian Tire . Target Canada

1722-522: Was threatened by one other party that claimed the Canadian rights to "Target" with respect to clothing. The Canadian trademark "Target Apparel" was registered in 1981 by Dylex Ltd. , a Canadian retailer defunct since the early 2000s, covering "men's clothing, namely suits, pants, jackets, and coats". The rights to the mark were acquired in 2001 by Fairweather Ltd., part of the INC Group of Companies owned by Isaac Benitah. Target Apparel originally served as

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1764-548: Was ultimately unsuccessful, owing in part to an overly aggressive expansion initiative, in addition to higher prices and a limited selection of products compared to Target stores in the United States and its Canadian rivals, particularly Walmart. The retail chain racked up losses of $ 2.1 billion in its lifespan, and was widely viewed as a failure, termed a "spectacular failure" by Amanda Lang of CBC News , "an unmitigated disaster" by Maclean's magazine and "a gold standard case study in what retailers should not do when they enter

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