Zellers is a defunct Canadian discount retailer. Hundreds of Zellers stores were replaced with Target, only for Target to vacate a few years later. It's a tale of corporate failure that will be taught in B-school for ages!

Anyway, Zellers had a mascot named Zeddy who was kinda like a Care Bear Cousin. He appeared in animated form and was always ready to help you save money!

Zeddy also had a corporeal form and, as Zellers was winding down, they had a little fun with an Adopt Zeddy campaign:

The Hudson's Bay Company has been a Canadian institution for hundreds of years, but this is my vintage. My mom worked at The Bay and lots of our clothes and household goods came from there.

My mother worked in a department store in a mall, so Christmas was always special and perhaps a little too materialistic, hehehe! Here are three four ads from Canadian stores that no longer exist.

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