Eaton's

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The T. Eaton Company Limited

Trade name	Eaton's
Company type	Private (1869–1998) Public (1998–1999)
Industry	Retail (department store)
Founded	1869
Founder	Timothy Eaton
Defunct	1999 as a company 2002 as a brand
Fate	Filed for bankruptcy; assets were purchased by Sears Canada in 1999. Stores converted to Sears stores or shut down in 2002.
Successor	Sears Canada
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario (with stores across Canada)
Key people	Timothy Eaton John Craig Eaton John David Eaton
Number of employees	70,000

The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's and then Eaton, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying-offices around the globe, and a mail-order catalog that was found in the homes of most Canadians. A changing economic and retail environment in the late twentieth century, along with mismanagement, culminated in the chain's bankruptcy in 1999.

Eaton's pioneered several retail innovations. In an era when haggling for goods was the norm, the chain proclaimed "We propose to sell our goods for CASH ONLY – In selling goods, to have only one price."^[1] In addition, it had the long-standing slogan "Goods Satisfactory or Money Refunded."^[2]