Today's Retail News From Around The Web: December 4, 2014
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Luxury Jeweller BVLGARI Opens First Canadian Location
2) Testing Loblaws' Click-And-Collect Service
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Top Stories - Canada:
-U.S. Retailers Learn to Speak Canadian (and as competition heats up, some may fail and have to leave) [Wall Street Journal]
-Rethinking big boxes: How hypermarkets will evolve [Canadian Grocer]
-Canada Goose Targets U.S. Market with Opening of NYC Sales Office [Newswire]
-Decoding the cult of Muji, the Japanese minimalist retailer [Globe & Mail]
-Debit, credit issues temporarily affect Target stores Canada-wide [TbNewsWatch.com]
-Walmart Canada Extends Store Hours for the Holiday Season [Newswire]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Loblaws City Market to open at Edmonton's Brewery District [Edmonton Journal]
-Loblaw will open 2 No Frills locations in Winnipeg [Winnipeg Free Press]
-The Source the latest addition to Pearson airport’s retail expansion [Toronto Star]
-Manitoba liquor store employees vote 97% in favour of strike [CBC]
-The Tiny Record shop opens in Riverdale [Toronto: NOW]
-City of Calgary's surplus store offering Christmas bargains [Calgary Herald]
Trending Topics:
-Restoration Hardware scaling up, not down [Fierce Retail]
-No, Amazon is not opening a physical store in New York for the holiday shopping season [QZ]
-Amazon's new nemesis: Brick-and-mortar stores [CBS]
-Cyber Monday heaviest online sales day in U.S. history [Fierce Retail]
-Home Depot to buy hardware unit [Retailing Today]
-Coach May Spend Big to Acquire Stuart Weitzman [Racked]
Interesting Articles:
-10% of Walmart's mobile sales come from customers standing inside a physical store [CNBC]
-Amazon most talked about retailer on Black Friday, Cyber Monday [Fierce Retail]
-The convenience-store comeback [Economist]
-Purchase of Saks unearths hidden real estate win in $3.7 billion building [Discussion: RetailWire]