Popular American womenswear retailer Chico’s just announced its first three Canadian store locations. All three stores will open in August, with more Canadian location announcements to follow. Its first Canadian store locations will be in the suburban Toronto area.
Chico’s first three Canadian stores will be located in the following malls:
- Square One Shopping Centre, Mississauga
- Mapleview Shopping Centre, Burlington, and
- Upper Canada Mall, Newmarket
Its Mississauga store will be 3,360 square feet, located across from Hudson’s Bay on the mall’s second level. Its Mapleview location will be roughly 3,100 square feet and will be on the mall’s lower level, between Maison Birks and White House | Black Market. Its Upper Canada Mall store will open on the mall’s second level. Both Square One and Upper Canada are managed by Oxford Properties, while Mapleview is managed by Ivanhoé Cambridge.
Chico’s Canadian stores will see updated interiors based on the company’s new prototype, featuring warm tones, subtle animal prints, iconic woven entry doors, luggage details on fixtures and layers of artifacts as props.
Chico’s was founded in 1983 in Florida. It sells private-branded clothing and accessories for women, “featuring a combination of great style with on-trend, expressive and one-of-a-kind designs to yield a wardrobe that is fashionable, unique, relaxed, figure-flattering, and comfortable,” according to a description on its parent company’s website.
Chico’s currently operates more than 600 stores and over 100 outlets across the U.S., the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Chico’s is a division of Chico’s FAS, which has already opened White House | Black Market stores in Canada, including three in the Toronto area. Both Chico’s and White House | Black Market are expected to further expand into Canada. Besides White House | Black Market and its Chico’s women’s stores, Chico’s FAS operates Soma Intimates and Boston Proper.
i wonder why they’d open these stores in such scummy malls.
might as well open your flagship store in Honeydale mall
Why are all the stores located in and around the same area, like there are other cities in Ontario, like Sarnia, London, Kitchener but no you put them in the basically same area I guess that puts a lot of ontario people not being able to buy your clothes unless they go on line like NOT do not trust buying on line.
\Regards Sharon
What happened to western Canada??? Cities like Calgary Alberta and Vancouver BC would
Be good choices. Why put all stores in Ontario? The Western provinces belong to Canada as well as Ontario.
Saskatoon,Saskatchewan would love to have a Chicos
Why did you not put Chicos in the Eaton Centre, where there are thousands of shoppers daily and is in central Toronto? Who does your market research? I never shop in any of those malls and I love Chicos in Florida. Disappointed . Anne.
why not go to a mall that is in the core of city of Toronto
Why are all the malls in the Toronto, Burlington area and none in Ottawa??????????
I have shopped at Chicos in Florida for many years and I really wonder why you have never put a Chicos store in Western Canada especially in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. We have the fastest growing province in Canada 🇨🇦 Wevwould love love to see a store here.
Chico’s appears to have halted its Canadian store expansion indefinitely.
You actually caught an omission on our part — CF Polo Park was in the pleadings, and we just updated the article. Thanks!
Finally a clothing store for women and not teenage girls camouflaged as "wome’s" wear. LOVE the clothes and anticipate more petite fashions. Also the staff in Mapleview Mall, Burlington , Ontario are courteous never rushed,intelligent and generallydelightful….if I were looking to seel I would apply to Chicos. Thank you
Cross fingers the company is able to expand further into Canada — or stay for that matter. We say this because Chico’s entered Canada, and then halted plans for future stores (as have a few similar US retailers, though J.Crew is likely about to announce its exit from Canada).
There are better locations, need a new marketing person/outlook.
You probably have Canadian Chico shoppers postal code, did you research them?
Really, are all your Canadian Chico clients from that area?
Very disappointed😩
We don’t expect Chico’s will be expanding much further in Canada — quite the opposite, the company is likely to retreat from Canada, according to some sources.