FOG BLOG BUSINESS LOG: ALL NORDSTROM STORES IN CANADA CLOSING!

All remaining Nordstrom stores in Canada closed for good by Tuesday Tuesday June 12 was the final day for all 13 Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores across Canada, the retailer has announced.

The U.S. department store chain, which announced in March that its Canadian operation would be shutting down, said on its website that June 13 would be its last day in business.

Liquidation sales started in March and have been proceeding for weeks as the retailer winds down its operations in Canada after less than a decade in business.

Although virtually every retailer was impacted by the pandemic, department stores like Nordstrom were hit perhaps harder than any other type of store, because they have such a large and expensive physical footprint. Online shopping and other specialty retailers have been eating into their business model from all sides for years.

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Sales at the e-commerce platform Nordstrom.ca have already been stopped.

The chain says discounts of up to 80 per cent were available.

Some stores closed earlier, when they have run out of inventory to sell.