's Saint Catherine Street , with 1501 McGill College in the background]]
is a chain of 98 fashion Department Store s that operate across parts of Canada . "The Bay" is short for the Hudson's Bay Company , of which it is a subsidiary. In Quebec the chain is known as '''la Baie''', short for "Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson", and the chain uses both the English and French versions of the name in some parts of the country outside Quebec.
The stores are full-line department stores, with a focus on apparel, accessories, and home goods. Most price points are mid- to upper-mid; however there is an assortment of everyday low price merchandise. The Bay can be compared to US retailer Macy's , and is more up-market than Sears Canada department stores. The average store is 135,000 square feet. Flagship downtown stores exist in Canada's largest cities, including Vancouver , Calgary , Winnipeg , Toronto , Ottawa and Montreal . These stores are larger in size and carry a much broader range of goods than their Suburban counterparts. The Bay is a division of the Hudson's Bay Company , Canada's largest department store Retailer and oldest Corporation .
In they reopened their fur salons. Animal Rights groups such as Freedom For Animals have been campaigning to get the Bay to once again stop selling fur.
Recent additions to larger (namely flagship stores) of the Bay include the Style Outlet and Pharmamart sections. Style Outlets, off-price departments located in 14 stores, offer designer labels at discounted prices, much like the Winners chain. This department, introduced in 2003 , was the launching pad for HBC's newest division, Designer Depot , which launched in the fall of 2004 .
Pharmamart is 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 Zellers prototype.
- Banff, Alberta - Banff
- Calgary, Alberta - Market Mall
- Calgary, Alberta - Southcentre Mall
- Calgary, Alberta - Downtown
- Calgary, Alberta - Chinook Centre
- Calgary, Alberta - Sunridge Mall
- Edmonton, Alberta - Kingsway Garden Mall
- Edmonton, Alberta - Londonderry Mall
- Edmonton, Alberta - Southgate Centre
- Edmonton, Alberta - The Bay Edmonton City Centre
- Edmonton, Alberta - West Edmonton Mall
- Lethbridge, Alberta - Lethbridge Centre Mall
- Medicine Hat, Alberta - Medicine Hat Mall
- Red Deer, Alberta - Bower Place
- St. Albert, Alberta - St. Albert Centre
- Abbotsford, British Columbia - Sevenoaks Shopping Centre
- Burnaby, British Columbia - Lougheed Town Centre
- Burnaby, British Columbia - Metrotown Centre
- Coquitlam, British Columbia - Coquitlam Centre
- Kamloops, British Columbia - Aberdeen Mall
- Kelowna, British Columbia - Orchard Park Shopping Centre
- Langley, British Columbia - Willowbrook Shopping Centre
- Nanaimo, British Columbia - Woodgrove Centre
- Penticton, British Columbia - Cherry Lane Shopping Centre
- Prince George, British Columbia - Parkwood Shopping Centre
- Richmond, British Columbia - Richmond Centre
- Surrey, British Columbia - Guildford Town Centre
- Vancouver, British Columbia - Oakridge Centre
- Vancouver, British Columbia - Downtown
- Vernon, British Columbia - Village Green Mall
- Victoria, British Columbia - Mayfair Shopping Centre
- Victoria, British Columbia - Downtown (The Bay Centre )
- West Vancouver, British Columbia - Park Royal Shopping Centre
- Barrie, Ontario - Georgian Mall
- Brampton, Ontario - Bramalea City Centre
- Brampton, Ontario - Shoppers World Brampton
- Burlington, Ontario - Burlington Mall
- Burlington, Ontario - Mapleview Shopping Centre
- Cambridge, Ontario - Cambridge Centre
- Etobicoke, Ontario - Sherway Gardens
- Hamilton, Ontario - Lime Ridge Mall
- Kingston, Ontario - Cataraqui Town Centre
- Kitchener, Ontario - Fairview Park
- London, Ontario - Masonville Place
- London, Ontario - White Oaks Mall
- Markham, Ontario - Markville Shopping Centre
- Mississauga, Ontario - Erin Mills Town Centre
- Mississauga, Ontario - Square One Shopping Centre
- Nepean, Ontario - Bayshore Shopping Centre
- Newmarket, Ontario - Upper Canada Mall
- Niagara Falls, Ontario - Niagara Square
- North York, Ontario - Yorkdale Shopping Centre
- Oakville, Ontario - Oakville Place
- Orléans, Ontario - Place d'Orléans
- Oshawa, Ontario - Oshawa Centre
- Ottawa, Ontario - Rideau Centre
- Ottawa, Ontario - St. Laurent Centre
- Pickering, Ontario - Pickering Town Centre
- Rexdale, Ontario - Woodbine Centre
- Richmond Hill, Ontario - Hillcrest Mall
- Scarborough, Ontario - Eglinton Square
- Scarborough, Ontario - Scarborough Town Centre
- St. Catharines, Ontario - The Pen Centre
- Stoney Creek, Ontario - Eastgate Square
- Toronto - Bloor Street
- Toronto - Queen Street
:The Bay Queen Street, located at the southwest corner of Queen Street West and Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto , is Canada's largest department store with 1,000,000 square feet of retail space. The store occupies a full Block and is connected by a skyway over Queen Street to the Toronto Eaton Centre . Toronto Tourism: The Bay Queen Street Fifty-two of this location's Simpsons employees fought in World War II, and are commemorated in a plaque at the south-east entrance. The location offers three restaurants, the Arcadian Court Restaurant, Great Cooks on Eight, and City View Café.
- Anjou, Quebec - Les Galeries D'Anjou
- Brossard, Quebec - Mall Champlain
- Chicoutimi, Quebec - Place du Royaume
- Dorval, Quebec - Les Jardins Dorval
- Gatineau, Quebec - Les Promenades de l'Outaouais
- Laval, Quebec - Centre Laval
- Laval, Quebec - Carrefour Laval
- Mont-Royal, Quebec - Centre Rockland
- Montreal, Quebec - Boulevard Centre
- Montreal, Quebec - Saint Catherine Street West
- Pointe-Claire, Quebec - Fairview Pointe-Claire
- Quebec City, Quebec - Galeries de la Capitale
- Quebec City, Quebec - Place Fleur de Lys
- Rosemère, Quebec - Place Rosemère
- Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec - Les Promenades St-Bruno
- Saint-Laurent, Quebec - Place Vertu
- Sainte-Foy, Quebec - Place Laurier
- Sherbrooke, Quebec - Carrefour de l'Estrie
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