A Winnipeg Sears store will be a casualty of the company’s restructuring.
The outlet location in Garden City Shopping Centre is one of 59 stores set to close across the country.
It will close its doors in October.
“We just found out this morning. We were a very sombre bunch passing around the tissue box, worst morning meeting ever,” one employee said. “It sucks because this store does really good. We beat other regular line stores with our sales, but they’re closing all the outlets.”
The company’s other Winnipeg locations in Kildonan Place, St. Vital Centre and Polo Park are expected to stay open. The Sears Home location on St. James closed in March.
“I think the writing has been on the wall for a while. The internet is killing everybody,” a shopper at the store told Global News. “I don’t even have to leave the house anymore, but it’s killing the stores. It sucks, but it makes sense.”
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Sears plans to shrink its workforce by 2,900 positions. It isn’t known how many Winnipeg positions will be affected.
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