The original store of Canada’s largest bookselling chain, Chapters, the store that represented “the first strike in the invasion of the big-box book retailer revolution,” is closing, being replaced by an outlet for the Winners discount clothing store chain. As Rebecca Caldwell reports in a Globe & Mail story, after Chapters began in the store on Toronto’s Bloor Street, ” Armed with volume sales, huge discounting policies, in-store coffee shops and, later, entire sections devoted to knickknackery such as candles and gift wrap, independents such as Lichtman’s and Edwards Books and Art were laid waste by Chapters’ wake. Iconic bookshops the Book Cellar and Britnell’s, the oldest family-run store in Canada that sold its first volume in 1893, would also close in the post-Chapters era.” The manager of the University of Toronto‘s bookstore, Nick Pashley, tells Caldwell, “There’s a kind of symbolic value seeing it go. It was the first superstore in Toronto. . . . But I don’t think it’s going to make a huge difference to independent booksellers because there really aren’t any more in that neck of the woods. They’ve all been driven out a long time ago.”