TORONTO — When the pre-lunch rush hit Wednesday at the flagship Hudson’s Bay store in Toronto, Brian Bursten was considering himself one of the lucky ones.
As he walked out the storied retailer’s Queen Street West location, he gripped a shopping bag containing a little treasure inside: a Hudson’s Bay striped pillow.
The purchase had been requested by his nephew who wanted a reminder of the retailer, which could be headed for liquidation as it grapples with financial troubles.
Bursten was amazed he succeeded.
“Everything was pretty well cleared out, but I was stopped by a woman who obviously knew I was looking,” he said. “To make a long story short, she had a bunch of stuff and one of them she didn’t want, and…
