If you are one of us (i.e. members of the Canadian beauty community, lol), you have heard enough complaints about the pain of not having some great stores in the US around here so we can join in all the fun sales and/or product availability.

I have been all ears about the possibility of any stores coming to Canada, and this is a short summary of what I have heard.

1. Target:

Back in January last year, people got all excited about the news of Target coming to Canada but then nothing happened. The name Target has already been claimed in Canada, and it’s gonna take a while to sort things out.

And then, CBC announced today that Target is buying Zellers for $1.8 billion and stores will start showing up in 2013-2014. Guess things are sorted out. Now this is both good and bad news. No arguing about the positive side of it, as we all want Target here, but it’s sad to see Zellers go. Although Zellers has been struggling in the competition with Walmart, lots of Canadians still offer their support to Zellers, because, well, it’s Canadian.

2. Marshalls:

This is not new, as people have been spotting Marshalls stores popping up around them already. Officially, TJX announced last summer to bring Marshalls to Canada with 6 stores opening this year.

As you might have known, Marshalls is the sister chain of Winners, and I’m very curious to see how it will play out between them being in Canadian market. Aren’t you?

3. Dollar Tree:

We all love our Dollarama, but the hype about finding discontinued nail polish and makeup for cheap at US Dollar Tree had been driving lots of us crazy.

Maybe not for long now when we heard Dollar Tree bought Dollar Giant for $52 million. I don’t even have a Dollar Giant here, I don’t think, but the possibility of seeing a Dollar Tree closer to home gets me all excited.

Shopping will soon get a lot more fun, not that it hasn’t been fun 🙂