Today's Retail News From Around The Web: September 25, 2014
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Today on Retail Insider:
1) Canadian Retail Sales Gaining Strength (Despite What You May Have Heard)
2) Target low-balls Walmart in Canada: Expert Discussion
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Sears Canada CEO Douglas Campbell resigns after one year in the job [Financial Post]
-Online shopping forces malls to evolve to keep customers coming back [Globe & Mail]
-Loblaw experiments with drive-through click-and-collect [Toronto Star]
-Sears Canada has no takers at auction [Retail Dive]
-Etsy opening pop-up shops across Canada on September 27 [Style Democracy]
-Retailer profils: 'Opening up the Linen Chest' [Star Phoenix]
-Home Hardware Set to Beautify Communities across Canada with 50th Anniversary Tree Plant [Newswire]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Michael's crafts to replace Chapters books at Richmond & John in Toronto [Style Democracy]
-Loft-style boutique shop sees lift in sales in Grande Praire, Alberta [Alberta Daily Herald Tribune]
-Mediation fails to settle long-running Ikea strike [Vancouver Sun]
-Four Metro Vancouver-based companies take home Canada Post e-commerce awards [Business in Vancouver]
-Yorkton (Saskatchewan) Building Supplies officially opens [Yorkton News Review]
-Indian status card confusion arises from Home Hardware incident [CBC Ottawa]
Trending Topics:
-Home Depot data breach has let fraudsters drain money from some customers’ bank accounts, WSJ reports [Financial Post]
-HBC to Open Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks OFF 5TH Stores in Lower Manhattan; Combine NYC Office Locations [Market Watch]
-Finding a Door Into Banking, Walmart Prepares to Offer Checking Accounts [CNBC]
-Lidl set to open U.S. stores in 2018 [Canadian Grocer]
-Back-to-School Slump Raises Concerns About Holiday Season [Bloomberg]
-Bed Bath buys $1 billion of its own stock [Retailing Today]
Interesting Articles:
-Canadians among richest in world, but debts aren't 'sustainable,' report finds [CTV]
-Analyst believes Amazon Prime up to 50 million members [Retail Dive]
-Will Americans give up Amazon for Alibaba? [Retail Wire]
-Should Staples and Office Depot merge? [Retail Dive]
-High-flying Ulta Beauty to open 100 stores per year for next five years [Chain Store Age]
-How Apple Pay Could Change the Retail World - Mobile Tech on Top Tech News [Top Tech News]