Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: December 11, 2015
/Our Article of the Day:
Victoria's Secret Opens Massive (World's 2nd Largest) Montreal Flagship [Photos]
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Fashion brand Esprit set to re-enter Canada next spring after exiting in 2011 [Financial Post]
-Hudson's Bay reports 34 per cent rise in third-quarter sales [Globe & Mail]
-Ikea Canada Sets Aside $180000 To Furnish Refugees' New Homes [Huffington Post]
-Grocery and restaurant costs to gobble up your budget next year, study says [Financial Post]
-Home Hardware, Tim Hortons and Roots Canada Demonstrate How Canadian Brands Are Using Social Media to Engage Fans [Stockhouse]
-DAVIDsTEA Inc. Now Available in Le Germain and Alt Hotels [Globe Newswire]
-Butter shortage forces Canada to look for more imports [Radio Canada International]
-Walmart Canada supports Canadian families in need with 1.2 million contribution to food charities [Press Release]
Canadian News - Regional:
Western Canada/North: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Make it snow inside West Edmonton Mall with tweets [Edmonton Journal]
-Seasonal songs means serious jingle in cash registers for retailers [News 1130 Vancouver]
-Retail Real Estate Markets Remain Strong [SaskatoonHomepage.ca]
-Businesses need to move out of their comfort zones to survive economic booms and busts [Globe & Mail]
-Jacuzzi Calgary customers worry about orders after store closes [Global]
-More at stake than cold beer in privatizing liquor sales [Winnipeg Free Press]
-outlaw-quiche and the battle for Vancouver's soul [CBC]
-Problems persist despite Arctic food subsidy: researcher [City News]
Eastern Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-One Tooth Activewear comes to downtown Guelph [Guelph Mercury]
-Park Place fueling Barrie shoppers with food, fire, music [Simcoe.com]
-Getting to the roots of Haitian food at Rhum Corner [Toronto Star]
-SAQ workers examining whether they should sell marijuana [CTV]
-Billionaire Westons Fund Said Among Bidders on Toronto LCBO Plot [Bloomberg]
-Band-owned gas bar going up in $2m Waycobah project [Halifax Chronicle Herald]
-Rona store in Bayers Lake donated by developers for Syrian refugee efforts [Nova Scotia: CBC]
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