Today's Retail News From Around The Web: January 16, 2015
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Photo: Target Corp.
Top Stories - Canada:
-Target to Exit Canada, with links to multiple articles [Retail Insider]
-Sony to close all 14 Canadian stores [Financial Post]
-Canada’s retail exodus: Here’s who’s closed up shop in Canada [Financial Post]
-Target Corp latest to pull plug on Canadian jobs in two weeks of mounting losses [Financial Post]
-Target tries to soften blow with unprecedented employee fund [Globe & Mail]
Canadian News: Region-by-Region
-Target pullout leaves condo project in the lurch [Toronto Star]
-Shindico confident new tenant to replace Target can be found [Winnipeg Free Press]
-Target's closure affects five Manitoba locations [Winnipeg Sun]
-Charles Sousa warns change brewing for Beer Store monopoly [Toronto Star]
-Target closing six Calgary stores, Balzac distribution centre [Calgary Herald]
-Discovering Montreal's made-in-Quebec options [Canada.com]
-Five Toronto Target stores closing shop as retail chain abandons Canada [InsideToronto]
-3 Target stores in Saskatchewan on chopping block [CBC]
Target Canada Job Loss-Related Articles:
-Wal-Mart, Sears ‘sad’ to see Target go, welcome applications, shoppers [Toronto Star]
-Target employees react online: 'There goes my job' [CTV]
-17600 employees to lose job in Target's Canadian exit [CP24]
-Analysis: Target's demise costs hundreds of Ottawa jobs [Ottawa Citizen]
TARGET CANADA: Analysis/Articles:
-Why Target Corporation pulled the plug in Canada [Financial Post]
-Target’s Canadian retreat leaves a 20-million-square-foot hole [Globe & Mail]
-Missing the mark: Five reasons why Target failed in Canada [Globe & Mail]
-Target Canada’s launch came with gushing predictions: ‘You don’t have to go to the States anymore’ [Financial Post]
-Pride took down a giant: How Target's corporate hubris was its Canadian undoing [Financial Post]
Interesting Articles on Target Exiting Canada:
-How Target Canada's exit is like 15 malls closing at once [Financial Post]
-Nordstrom take note, here's what Target's Canadian failure can teach you [CTV]
-Calls to re-open Zellers as Canadians say goodbye to 'Tar-Jay' [CTV]
-5 Reasons Why Target Failed In Canada [Business Insider]
