If you never had the opportunity to experience a meal at the 7th floor cafeteria before it closed you missed out on of the best kept secrets that Montreal had to offer.
The richs get richer and the poors get poorer... the end of The Bay is one of the outcome of this ever growing gap. There is less room for middle class stores. The high end stores are surviving and cheap fast fashion stores too. Everything in the middle is slowly dying. The bay was doomed since 2015 ... way too big and impossible to transform.
Like many others before they had beautiful clothes etc but you cannot complete with amazon and other giants. Last week i bought 5 tshirts for 29$ you can't find that anywhere else, a pair of cargo shorts for 28$ in stores its usually 75$