More than 100 unionized workers in Prince George lost their jobs Monday.
The employees were laid off as the Prince George Zellers outlet closed permanently.
It will undergo renovations and is slated to reopen next May as U.S. retail giant Target arrives in the northern B.C. city as part of its move into Canada.
Target has said it will hire as many as 200 people and will consider all applications from laid-off Zellers workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union.
Target picked up the leasing rights to about 220 Zellers stores - including Victoria outlets in the Tillicum and Hillside malls - after signing a nearly $2-billion deal with the Hudson's Bay Company in January.
HBC, which had owned the Zellers chain since 1978, began liquidating stock at the Canadian stores shortly after the deal was inked.
