When I was growing up, Amherst had TWO bustling malls, the older mall was called the Cumberland Mall (which is now just a mostly dead strip mall) and the current Amherst Centre Mall. The old mall was anchored by the Zellers and a Save Easy, and the new Mall was anchored by Sobeys and Kmart, a Bi-way, and had numerous other stores.
There was never an actual Sears dept. store though, always just a Sears furniture store and catalogue outlet, which is still there today.
The really surprising thing is that we still have our downtown dept store Margolians (which is now called Dayles).
Although I must say I find it rather ironic that urban enthusiasts on SSP would be lamenting the demise of suburban-style shopping malls and big box stores. I suppose it's rather telling about the state of things in Amherst that no one even mentions the fate of downtown, and that the best case scenario is to maintain the health of a shopping mall when even it is struggling...
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