[PHOTO] Six photos from the last days of Target in the Stockyards, Toronto

[rfmcdpei]

At the beginning of April, I went to the Target location in the Stockyards shopping complex on St. Clair West to bear witness to the last days of the chain. I had heard of Target's arrival in Canada back in 2013, and I'd of course been following the news of the chain's collapse, but I had never actually managed to get there. I wanted to see once

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[mmcirvin]

The moment these stores go into liquidation, it seems as if everything distinctive about them instantly disappears, to be replaced by the standard EVERYTHING MUST GO liquidation setup, with goods haphazardly strewn about.

I've heard that sometimes the liquidators even bring in goods from other places they're liquidating.

[timgueguen]

Yeah, some of the signage used when the Target near me closed looked to be exactly the same stuff as was used when the Zellers in the same space closed.

I was in Target the night before it closed, and it looked almost like a riot occurred.