Sears in Downtown Vancouver closes for good this weekend
Posted October 6, 2012 4:26 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – At one time, the Sears store in Downtown Vancouver employed as many as 800 people, but that is no longer the case.
Tomorrow, the store at Granville and Robson Streets in Downtown Vancouver will close forever.
There have been massive sales for weeks, as the store needed to liquidate nearly $25 million worth of merchandise. The 300 remaining employees will go to other Sears locations.
Shoppers have been streaming to Granville and Robson all weekend, but not all of them are looking for last minute deals. Dozens of others are coming in to snap photos of the building that has a lot of history.
Loretta came in for the nostalgia. “I’m saying goodbye to it. I remember when it was Eaton’s and first built. At Christmas time along the escalators they would have the poinsettia plants going to the top to the bottom and they would play the Christmas music. That’s what I remember.”
Josey will miss her routine of jumping on the bus to shop at what the department store.
“I come from North Vancouver and there’s still a Sears open there but this one used to be different before that.”
All that’s left for purchase at bargain prices include mainly women’s clothing and furniture. Tomorrow is the last day of the sale.
Sears announced the closure back in March. Two other locations in Calgary and Ottawa are also shutting its doors.
Nordstrom is moving into that location in a couple of years.
