People just want to stay at home, shop from home, have food delivered to the home…it’s a different world. It may have been high prices, or reduced selection, or the inconvenience of getting dressed and driving over to the mall to shop at the store, or maybe society just got lazy.
The Hudson’s Bay Company has bit the dust, succumbed to the digital daggers of the deadly online world. In a short while, HBC will be closing more than half its 80 stores across Canada, putting hundreds if not thousands more people into the ranks of the unemployed.
Nothing can be done about it or the Bay would have tried it. They probably did. Cut their prices to the bone, unpacked every item they had in warehouses. To no avail. People just don’t shop like that anymore.
The speeches at the recent Liberal Party Leadership convention exalted Canadians for being strong, being determined and being supportive of their country. The reality is Canadians may be patriotic and passionate about their country but they aren’t shopping as before. The digital world has or is killing the old tyme stores. One by one, each is falling, like dominoes, Sears, Simpsons, Eatons and now the Bay.
Bezos has delivered the blows. We buy online. We buy at Amazon. Our fingers do the walking. We ‘re sorry to see you go Hudson’s Bay.
