Open this photo in gallery: Sale signage at a Hudson's Bay store in Toronto on April 22.Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press Hudson’s Bay will begin clearance sales at six stores that the retailer previously left out of the liquidation, according to new court documents. Canada’s oldest retailer is closing in on a deadline next week for bids to be submitted in the sale process for the company’s assets and operations. But the retailer believes there is a “low probability” a buyer will emerge for the six stores, according to an affidavit sworn by Adam Zalev, co-founder and managing director of Reflect Advisors LLC, which is acting as financial adviser to Hudson’s Bay. The department stores launched clearance sales in late March at 74 Hudson’s Bay stores, as well as two Saks Fifth Avenue and 13 Saks Off Fifth stores that the company operates in Canada under a licence with Saks Global. The remaining six stores were left out of the liquidation because the company was hoping a bidder would step forward with a plan for the future that could save some of its locations. The six stores, as well as other locations, could still be pulled out of liquidation depending on the outcome of the sale process. Other court documents have confirmed that multiple bidders have expressed interest in part of the company’s assets or operations. In a separate process to monetize the Hudson’s Bay leases, several parties that have expressed interest in the leases have also specified that their bids for those locations are connected to a planned submission under the sale process, according to a report from the monitor overseeing the Bay’s creditor-protection process. Faltering under mounting losses and $1.1-billion in debt, Hudson’s Bay was granted court protection from its creditors on March 7 under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The liquidation sales have already generated more sales than expected – cash that will partly go toward paying back some of what the company owes its lenders. From March 15 to April 18, a period that included the first four weeks of the liquidation, Hudson’s Bay reported $235.7-million in retail sales as more people visited its stores and website looking for deals. More coming.