Target Canada closing another 62 stores before Easter

With 16 down, Target has 117 additional stores to close before it pulls completely out of Canada. And it’s moving quickly to do just that.

The ailing retailer said Tuesday a whopping 62 locations will be shuttered before Easter weekend — or in just over a week — keeping Target on track for a speedy retreat over the border.

Liquidation sales that commenced in early February are now selling remaining merchandise at up to 60 per cent off, according to Target’s advertising.

MORE: Shoppers complain Target jacked prices ahead of sales

The widespread store closures will affect more than 17,000 retail workers, a record layoff experts say that will weigh on already sluggish employment figures expected for March, April and May.

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The 62 closures (listed below), plus 16 store closures already, will leave 55 locations still in operation after April 2. Target aims to have all Canadian stores closed by mid-May.

Atlantic Canada

• Saint John
• Sydney
• Halifax, (Bayers Lake Power Centre)
• Dartmouth

Quebec

• Ste-Jean-Richelieu
• Trois-Rivières
• Rimouski
• Brossard
• Anjou
• St-Eustache
• Quebec City (Place Fleur de Lys)
• Québec City (Sainte-Foy)
• Montreal (Alexis Nihon Plaza)
• Montreal (Place Versailles)
• Sherbrooke
• Lasalle
• Saint-Bruno
• Saint-Jérôme
• Saint-Laurent
• Gatineau

Ontario

• Oakville, Ont.
• Whitby, Ont.
• London, Ont. (Masonville Place).
• Hamilton, Ont. (South Hamilton Square)
• Hamilton, Ont. (Queenston Place)
• Waterdown
• Kingston
• Ajax
• Toronto (Centerpoint Mall)
• Orillia
• Sudbury
• Aurora
• Hamilton (Meadowlands Power Centre)
• Welland
• Bowmanville
• Thunder Bay
• Kanata
• Nepean
• Pickering
• Ottawa (RioCan St. Laurent)
• Ottawa (Billings Bridge Centre)
• Ottawa (Place D’Orleans Shopping Centre)

Manitoba

• Brandon
• Winnipeg (Grant Park)

Saskatchewan

• Regina
• Saskatoon (Centre At Circle & Eighth)
• Saskatoon (Lawson Heights)

Alberta

• Sherwood Park
• Edmonton (Mill Woods Town Centre)
• Edmonton (West Edmonton Mall)

British Columbia

• Campbell River
• Victoria (Hillside Shopping Centre)
• Coquitlam
• Kelowna
• Abbotsford
• Maple Ridge
• Vernon
• Saanich Tillicum
• Nanaimo
• Courtenay
• Prince George
• Surrey