Today's Retail News From Around The Web: October 1, 2014
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Agent Provocateur Opens Canadian Flagship
2) How to Quickly and Accurately Plan Your Retail Sales Goals
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Staples closes 15 stores in Canada [Globe & Mail]
-A timeline of Sears Canada’s rise and fall [Canadian Business]
-Twitter outcry over Target's 'sexist' pyjamas [CTV]
-Canadian Tire’s new CEO Michael Medline on the digital shopping revolution [Canadian Business]
-Canadians paying more for dairy, poultry [Free Press]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Premium grocery retailing on the rise in Toronto (including Pusateri's and Whole Food) [Toronto Star]
-How a retail revamp will remake Yonge & Eglington [Bisnow Toronto]
-HBC announces donation of historic mural to The Manitoba Museum [Newswire]
-Unique Toronto retailer: Elephant In The Attic [BlogTO]
-Erin Mills Town Centre doubles up at marketing award [mississauga.com]
-Bedford's Sunnyside Mall bets on local merchants [Chronicle Herald]
-Sask. minimum wage increasing by 20 cents Wednesday [Global]
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Trending Topics:
-Ebay spinning off PayPal in 2015; both companies to get new CEOs [Chain Store Age]
-Online retailing to account for $120B by 2018 [Fierce Retail]
-Supervalu, Albertsons say credit and debit card data systems have been hacked [Canadian Grocer]
-Nike e-commerce up 70% in latest quarter [Fierce Retail]
-Macy’s to increase holiday hires by 3.6%, driven by increased omnichannel needs [Chain Store Age]
Interesting Articles:
-New site rewards shoppers for paying full price [Retail Dive]
-Costco's Simple Strategy For Outperforming Wal-Mart And Target [Business Insider]
-Selfridges invests in £40m website revamp to "future proof" the business [retail-week.com]
-2014 Worst US Retail Industry Companies to Work For - Employee Ranks [About]
-The 25 Coolest New Businesses In Brooklyn [Business Insider]
-Tracy Morgan Blasts Walmart For Blaming Truck Accident On Him [Business Insider]