Good news for Sears in North Bay.

The department store at Northgate Shopping Centre is NOT one of the 20 full-line stores Sears Canada plans to close under it’s reinvention.

The national retailer has announced it’s seeking court protection from its creditors and that it hopes to restructure and emerge from that status later this year.

Other locations in the north are impacted.

As detailed below, the full-line store in Sault Ste Marie, an outlet in Timmins and Sears Home in Sudbury are closing.

Details on the impact, including a workforce reduction of 2,900 are included in a release from Sears Canada.

“The Company also announced the closing of 20 full-line locations, plus 15 “Sears Home” Stores, 10 “Sears Outlet” and 14 “Sears Hometown” locations as well as a corresponding planned reduction in its workforce of approximately 2,900 positions across its retail network and at its corporate head office in Toronto. A list of the stores that the Company anticipates closing is included with this announcement. The specific timing of the store closings has not yet been finalized. All other Sears Canada stores and the Sears e-commerce website, www.sears.ca, continue to be open for business.”

Stores to be Closed

Sears Full-Line

Hometown

Outlet

Sears Home

Medicine Hat, AB

Cold Lake, AB

Abbotsford Retail, BC

Calgary, AB

Grande Prairie, AB

St. Albert, AB

Winnipeg Garden City, MB

Edmonton Skyview, AB

Lloydminster, AB

Okotoks, AB

Halifax Outlet, NS

Ancaster, ON

Red Deer Relocation, AB

Spruce Grove, AB

Cornwall, ON

Woodbridge, ON

Kamloops Aberdeen Mall, BC

Ft. McMurray, AB

Chatham, ON

London, ON

Bathurst, NB

Leduc, AB

Cambridge, ON

Scarborough, ON

Saint John, NB

Sherwood Park, AB

Timmins, ON

Kingston, ON

Corner Brook, NL

Creston, BC

St. Eustache, QC

Ottawa East, ON

Truro Mall, NS

Sechelt, BC

Montreal Place Vertu, QC

Sudbury, ON

Dartmouth, NS

Grand Forks, BC

Sorel, QC

Windsor, ON

Brockville, ON

Orangeville, ON

Orillia, ON

Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Rimouski, QC

St. Bruno, QC

Hull, QC

Rouyn-Noranda, QC

Laval, QC

Chicoutimi, QC

Melville, SK

Quebec City, QC

St. Georges de Beauce, QC

Ste. Foy, QC

Alma, QC

Drummondville, QC

Regina, SK

Moose Jaw, SK

Prince Albert, SK

With files from The Canadian Press

Filed under: northgate-shopping-centre, sears-canada