Zellers' logo from 1975-present Today’s lost retail post is about the “Truly Canadian” discount store, Zellers. Selling everything from A-Z, Zellers was basically like a Kmart in the sense that it was struggling and that their stores were old, but had updated signage for the most part. That’s ironic considering they brought most of the Canadian Kmarts in 1998. However, the merchandise they sold was more like what Target sold. Sadly HBC sold Zellers’ leases to Target in 2011 and closed all but two stores in 2013 as a result. Early years The first Zellers store was founded on August 4 th , 1928 by Walter P. Zeller in London ON. Because the stores were doing good, an American retailer called Schulte-United brought them out. In 1931 Zeller brought 14 Canadian stores from Schulte-United and reverted them back to the Zellers brand. In its first year, Zellers had 12 stores in southwestern Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick with 11 being former Schulte-United stores and the Ki...
