CORNWALL Ontario – There are some excited and joyous about Wal-Mart taking over the old Target warehouse facility. There’s talk of a few hundred more jobs. More jobs of course is never a bad thing, but sadly to this writer this is not good news. Competition for positions is good for the residents of a […]
CFN– Target is shutting down its stores in Canada with approximately 17,000 staff losing their jobs. Here in Cornwall Ontario Eleven Points Distribution hires approximately 250-400 people locally. The massive facility of 170 acres was supposed to employ nearly 1,000, but Canada never embraced Target after it acquired many of the former Zeller stores. […]
CORNWALL Ontario – Is Target in trouble in Canada? The US retailer’s bold move into the smaller Canadian market has had some bumps and grinds from language laws for product, to higher cost for labour and different regulations than the US. With most Canadians within an hour drive of the US many shoppers are […]