Today's Retail News From Around The Web: October 2, 2014
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) List of Recently Closed Staples Store Locations in Canada
2) Polo Park Opens $49 Million Expansion
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Sears Holding Corp to raise $380-million through sale of most of its stake in Sears Canada [Financial Post]
-Costco customers offered no-limit reward card from Capital One Financial [Financial Post]
-Keurig Green Mountain sued by Canada’s Club Coffee for $600-million [Financial Post]
-Jim Pattison: the biggest Canadian succession dilemma you’ve never heard of [Yahoo]
-Tiger Conducts XS Cargo's GOB Sales in Canada [ABL Advisor]
-Walmart Canada Launches National Thanksgiving Food Drive [Newswire]
-2014 Canadian Independent Grocery of the Year Award Winners [Butter PR]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Grocery bus attempts to beat high N.W.T. food prices [Yahoo]
-Curtain set to fall on Calgary’s iconic Movie Poster Shop [Calgary Herald]
-Woman wins $4,000 ruling against pet store after paying for parrot autopsy [Edmonton Examiner]
-Toronto Eaton Centre announces partnership with World MasterCard Fashion Week [Newswire]
-FedEx Continues Retail Expansion Into Quebec with Super C [Market Watch]
Trending Topics:
-The physical store is not dead, just changing [Fierce Retail]
-California becomes first state to ban plastic bags [Yahoo]
-Dov Charney could return to American Apparel [Retail Dive]
-Supervalu suffers second data breach [Fierce Retail]
-Eataly Will Open at 4 World Trade Center [Racked NYC]
Interesting Articles:
-Walmart tests drive-through grocery concept [Retail Wire]
-Expert Discussion: PayPal and eBay to go their separate ways [Retail Wire]
-Apple & U2: Gift or spam? [Retail Dive]
-Google to introduce several mobile display ad formats, tools [Fierce Retail]
-Sainsbury's Accidentally Posted An Awkward Sign Meant Only For Employees In Its Storefront [Business Insider]