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TheBay.com now redirects visitors to Canadian Tire's Hudson's Bay Stripes collection instead of operating as the old Hudson's Bay department store.
What happened to TheBay.com?
TheBay.com was once the main online shopping site for Hudson's Bay, the famous Canadian department store.
That business changed in 2025 when Hudson's Bay entered creditor protection and began closing its stores.
The remaining department stores shut in 2025 after a large liquidation process ended the retailer's physical operations.
A detailed Hudson's Bay closure report explains how the company disappeared as a national department store while its name and designs survived.
The website also changed, so people typing TheBay.com today do not reach the old fashion, beauty, furniture, and department-store marketplace.
Where does TheBay.com take you now?
The domain currently sends visitors to a Hudson's Bay Stripes page on CanadianTire.ca.
This means TheBay.com still works, but its purpose is very different from the site many Canadian shoppers remember.
The new destination focuses on products that use the well-known green, red, yellow, and blue Hudson's Bay stripe design.
The page includes items for the home, outdoors, beach, kitchen, and everyday use.
Examples shown online include Point Blankets, beach towels, chairs, pool floats, pickleball sets, bags, mugs, kitchen items, and outdoor accessories.
Why is Hudson's Bay connected to Canadian Tire?
Canadian Tire Corporation agreed to buy important Hudson's Bay intellectual property in 2025.
The Canadian Tire acquisition announcement said the deal covered the Stripes, company names, logos, designs, the coat of arms, and other trademarks.
The announced purchase price was C$30 million.
This explains why the old TheBay.com address now leads into the Canadian Tire shopping system.
Canadian Tire is not simply linking to the old Hudson's Bay store, because it now controls selected Hudson's Bay brand assets and is building new products around them.
What can you buy from the Hudson's Bay brand in 2026?
Canadian Tire launched its first full Hudson's Bay Stripes seasonal collection on May 1, 2026.
The official Summer 2026 collection announcement describes a 32-piece range sold through Canadian Tire stores and online.
The collection covers outdoor furniture, beach goods, games, entertaining products, and classic Hudson's Bay items.
Products include a pickleball set, cornhole game, Point Blanket, umbrella, beach towels, and a cedar strip canoe.
Some products are made in Canada, including selected Muskoka chairs, paddles, cushions, and canoes.
Select Hudson's Bay Stripes products are also available through some Mark's stores and its website.
Can you still shop on TheBay.com like before?
No, TheBay.com is no longer the broad department-store shopping experience that offered many outside fashion, beauty, home, and luxury brands.
Shopping now happens through Canadian Tire after the redirect.
This difference matters because product selection, accounts, checkout, delivery, rewards, and customer service now follow Canadian Tire's systems.
People searching for an old Hudson's Bay product or brand should not assume that it remains available just because they remember buying it from The Bay.
The current assortment is much more focused on Hudson's Bay-branded products and the famous Stripes design.
Does Canadian Tire ship TheBay.com products internationally?
International shoppers should check delivery rules before choosing a product.
Canadian Tire's current online ordering information says it does not ship outside Canada.
It also says products cannot normally be shipped across provincial borders because of tax requirements.
Delivery methods and product availability can depend on the Canadian Tire store and location selected by the shopper.
This makes TheBay.com mainly useful to people who can shop through Canadian Tire's Canadian retail network.
What happens if you need to return an item?
Purchases made through the redirected shopping experience are handled under Canadian Tire's rules rather than the former Hudson's Bay return system.
The current Canadian Tire return policy generally allows unopened products in original packaging to be returned with a receipt within 90 days.
Some product types have shorter periods, exclusions, or final-sale conditions.
Checking the exact product page and receipt before buying is the safest choice.
Is TheBay.com still worth visiting?
TheBay.com is worth visiting if you want Hudson's Bay Stripes products, but it should no longer be viewed as an independent Canadian department-store website.
The domain now works more like a bridge between a historic retail name and its new home inside Canadian Tire.
That makes the redirect important because it shows how Hudson's Bay survived as a brand even after its department stores disappeared.
For shoppers, the simple rule is to treat anything reached through TheBay.com as part of the current Canadian Tire shopping experience and check current prices, stock, delivery, and return terms before ordering.