Reasons to Read

Understand how Canada’s retail footprint has been shifting—with exclusive, retailer-level store opening and closure data.

Read this report to discover answers to these and other questions:

• How many store closures and openings have we identified in Canada for calendar 2025—and how do these totals compare with our previous report?
• Which retailers are leading the additional store closures and openings identified since our last update?
• Which retailers rank among the top for total store closures?
• Which retailers rank among the top for total store openings?

Companies mentioned in this report include: Toys“R”Us, Claire’s, Hudson’s Bay Company, Peavey Mart, Loblaw Companies Limited, Dollarama, Best Buy, Dollar Tree, Uniqlo, Sephora, Metro Inc., Sobeys, The TJX Companies, Walmart and many more.

Data in this report include: Canada store closure and opening counts by calendar year and year to date; major retailer store closures ranked by total closures; major retailer store openings ranked by total openings; tabulated retailer-level confirmed and planned store openings and closures.

Other relevant research:

• The full collection of Store Tracker reports, including our UK-focused series
• The US and UK Store Tracker Databank is the definitive resource for information on store openings and closures by sector in the US and UK retail industries.
• The Corporate and Financial Developments Databank includes details of management changes, financial guidance updates, retail and tech layoffs and capital raised by major retail companies.
• The Retail Bankruptcies Databank details bankruptcies of US and UK retail companies, restaurants and gyms since March 2020.