Today's Retail News From Around The Web: December 16, 2014
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Icebreaker TouchLab. Photo: www.shape-arch.ca
Top Stories - Canada:
-SHOEme.ca Continues Buying Spree with Acquisition of Shoes.com [Newswire]
-Cyber Week makes rapid rise in Canadian online retail [Newsire]
-Is Empire Company Limited the Top Food Retailer to Own Today? [MF]
-Food fight in Ottawa spurs hope in the North [Macleans]
-Lego shortage leaves independent stores with empty shelves [CBC]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Montreal's LXR & Co eyes bricks-and-mortar expansion for its worldwide luxury online business [Montreal Gazette]
-Inside Sport Chek's High-Tech Burnaby Flagship [Bisnow]
-Prairie Mall celebrates four decades [Alberta Daily Herald Tribune]
-$26 For Orange Juice, 13.6% Jobless: Nunavut By The Numbers [Huffington Post]
-Online shopping growing quickly in Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
-Honest Ed's turkey giveaway now in its 27th year [Toronto: CBC]
Trending Topics:
-Sears CEO Lampert explains why he closed 200 stores [Fortune]
-Fashion chain Gap in deal with online retailer Zalando [Yahoo/Reuters]
-China sees sales shift to online [Fierce Retail]
-Toys R Us shrinks loss to $213M from $605M a year ago through expense control and fewer promotions [Chain Store Age]
-Apple Store now accepting PayPal [Fierce Retail]
-Retailers face organized ‘ambush’ in 2015 [Retailing Today]
-Hedge fund urges Staples-Office Depot merger [Retail Dive]
Interesting Articles:
-Are you really getting a deal at the outlet store? (often, not) [ABC]
-Ghost mall’ struggles in suburban Paris [Globe & Mail]
-Will Men Buy Into Their Girlfriends’ Brands? [Business of Fashion]
-Remodeled Louis Vuitton resembles old Parisian apartment [Fierce Retail]
-Brands need to adapt to remain competitive: report [Luxury Daily]
-Best Buy and others use ship-from-store as anti-Amazon weapon [RTD]
-The humble beginnings for seven world famous retailers [CSM]