Winners Merchants International L.P. is a chain of off-price Canadian department stores owned by TJX. Its market niche is similar to the American chain TJ Maxx, and it is a partnered retailer to department stores HomeSense and Marshalls.
Winners Merchants International L.P. is a chain of off-price Canadian department stores owned by TJX. Its market niche is similar to the American chain TJ Maxx, and it is a partnered retailer to department stores HomeSense and Marshalls.
==History and format== thumb|Winners logo from 1982 to 2005 thumb|Winners at Southcentre Mall in Calgary, Alberta thumb|right|Winners store in Bayers Lake Business Park with 1980s logo Winners was founded in 1982 by David Margolis in Toronto, Ontario. It was one of the first off-price department stores in Canada. In 1990, it merged with off-price department store owner TJX. By the time of its acquisition by TJX in June 1990, Winners had five stores in the country, all of which were in the Toronto area. Except for the store on Spadina Avenue that closed in 2018, all of these Winners are still in operation (either in their original or relocated spaces).
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