Today's retail news from around the web: July 29, 2014
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Dollar Tree to Buy Rival Family Dollar For $8.5-Billion (includes Canadian stores) [Globe & Mail]
-How Dollar Tree’s U.S. deal could put cheap food in focus at Canadian dollar stores [Financial Post]
-Hudson’s Bay Testing Real Time Mobile Advertising in Stores [Globe & Mail]
-Mall Construction Boom Is Fuelled By The Tastes Of Canada's Wealthiest [Huffington Post]
-How to Fix Target Canada’s Problems in Six Easy Steps [Canadian Business]
-Target Canada To Price-Match Any Grocery Deal In The Country: Report [Huffington Post]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Toronto Life's 'Best of the City' retailers, 2014 [Toronto Life]
-Bissell Centre Aims to Raise Funds to Reopen Thrift Shoppe After Fires [Edmonton Journal]
-Power Failure Closes Rideau Centre Shops, But Mall Stays Open [Ottawa Citizen]
-Man Couldn't Stay Out of Sudbury Liquor Stores [Sudbury Star]
-Sam the Record Man Sign Returns to Toronto [Forward]
Trending Topics:
-How a Canadian e-retailer offers free shipping on $20 orders [Internet Retailer]
-Albertsons Finalizes $9 Billion Safeway Purchase [Fierce Retail]
-Two Charts: What Dollar Tree Gets With Its $9.2 Billion Deal for Family Dollar [Business Week]
-Why Kmart Still Sucks, Losing Stores, Staff, Customers [Daily Finance]
-Brooklyn Whole Foods Now Makes Bike Deliveries [Clean Technica]
Interesting Articles:
-How Retail Blogs Affect the Industry (we're not in this article) [Retail Dive]
-Physical Stores Dominate Path to Purchase [Retail Wire] [Full Study PDF]
-Will Dollar Tree + Family Dollar spell trouble for Dollar General? [RetailWire]
-Bitcoin's Anonymity Makes It Ripe For Crime: Finance Dept. Memo [Huffington Post]