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A love song for Zellers
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Tags: None -
This hits me in many places. When I got out of college, my first gig was servicing all the Zeller's stores in Toronto. I knew them inside and out, they were terribly managed but they were childhood. When my first kid was born, we ALWAYS shopped at Zellers because nobody else did. I still have clothes I bought there.
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Thank you for sharing that. I unfortunately never got to shop at Zellers but the video still really hit me. It reminded me of all the stores I used to go to that are long gone. All the memories the holidays and birthdays. Made me a more than a little wistful and sentimental feeling.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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Did Target Canada fail because it supplanted Zellers? I'm trying to recall the discussion here years ago.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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Thank you for sharing that. I unfortunately never got to shop at Zellers but the video still really hit me. It reminded me of all the stores I used to go to that are long gone. All the memories the holidays and birthdays. Made me a more than a little wistful and sentimental feeling.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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I loved our trips to Zellers. Looking round the toy section, then checking out the View-Master and Campus Craft poster displays, then a root beer float in the restaurant. Great memories.PUNY HUMANS!Comment
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I worked in the Skillet, the Zellers restaurant, from when I was 14 to 18. I was out of toys at the time, but would walk through the toy aisles from where I'd punch in to the restaurant. I remember marveling over the amount of X-Men characters they were making, and how awful GiJoe RAH had become.
I still make my club sandwiches like the 3D club we sold.
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Target bought out most of the Zeller's locations and then bungled the whole thing. They ran them differently than the US and it was a clusterf*** , empty shelves and zero of the brands Canadians were expecting would be available. Then they just pulled out overnight. I knew people who left great careers with other prosperous retail head offices and they were made jobless.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
Buy Toy-Ventures Magazine here:
http://www.plaidstallions.com/reboot/shopComment
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Thanks, that's truly sad. When you've lost a job, hearing such really resonates.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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