Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: December 18, 2015
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Montreal Eaton Centre. Photo: Ivanhoé Cambridge
Top Stories - Canada:
-RioCan unloads U.S. retail assets for $2.7-billion [Globe & Mail]
-Canada slow to cash in on discount trend [Ottawa Business Journal]
-Higher food prices in Canada not a bad thing [Troy Media]
-Head start on suds sales has Loblaw’s rivals crying in their beer [Financial Post]
-Sleep Country Canada Announces Completion of $185 Million Secondary Offering [Stockhouse]
-Canadian Tire Corporation Limited: 2015 Year-End Review [Motley]
-Shaw to keep Wind Mobile a discount mobile carrier [Toronto Star]
-Making shoes with love (re: Aldo) [The Straights Times]
-Walmart Canada Helps Salvation Army Fill the Kettle [Newswire]
Canadian News - Regional:
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-15 Amazing New Retailers That Opened in Vancouver in 2015 [BC Living]
-2015’s Hottest New Vancouver Boutiques (different from above) [BC Living]
-Vancouver votes down wine sales in grocery stores, for now [CBC]
-Cochrane stores provide "small town feeling" to keep residents shopping local this holiday season [Alberta: Cochrane Eagle]
-Density increasing in East Vancouver's Norquay Village [Straight.com]
-Life Lessons: Lee Richmond, Kaboodles Toy Stores [Business in Vancouver]
-Pete Fry: 'Tis the season to shop local [Vancouver: Straight.com]
-Prytula's Country General Store reached its landmark [Prince Albert Daily Herald]
Eastern Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Sobeys gas bars to upgrade food offerings [Halifax Chronicle Herald]
-Most Sudbury stores staying closed, a year after 24-hour shopping allowed [CBC]
-Boxing Day in danger in Quebec? [Global News]
-RioCan aims to build highrises at 3 Ottawa shopping centres [CBC]
-Will this plan make Yonge St. more lovable? [Toronto Sun]
-Major Quebec c-store launches microbrew beer project [Canadian Grocer]
-Residents of Leaside are beginning to worry with upcoming Costco, Wamart, condo projects [Post City Toronto]
-Montreal's “Newell Furniture” Launches Online Furniture Shopping [Digital Journal]
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