Today's Retail News From Around The Web: March 11, 2015
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Sears Canada and Concord Pacific sign $140-million sale-lease deal for three of its properties [Financial Post]
-Target Canada stops selling fixtures during liquidation due to landlord dispute [CBC]
-Weak loonie is bad news for retailers – and consumers [BNN]
-‘Tested for life': Canadian Tire Corp taps customer testers for a hands-on marketing tool [Financial Post]
-Video: Why Canada's grocers are rethinking their strategies [BNN]
-Need Dependable Income? Calloway REIT is the answer [Motley Fool Canada]
-As Online Grocery Sales Increase in Canada, Brick-and-Mortar Grocers Stay Competitive with Technology [Digital Journal]
Canadian News: Region-by-Region
-Ste-Catherine St. needs a painless makeover, real-estate exec Léopold says [Montreal Gazette]
-Loblaws Will Be Hiring A Lot People In Montreal In 2015 [MTL Blog]
-Evan Duggan: Department stores play lesser role in malls [Vancouver Sun]
-Polo Park Roadwork Threatening Small Business [Winnipeg: CJOB]
-Halifax's Sobey School of Business (St.Mary's) launches new retail research centre [Chronicle Herald]
-Mim meats Montreal: The Schwartz's experience [The Concordian]
-Second Cup spills more red ink [Toronto Star]
Trending Topics:
-Target Corp. to lay off 1,700, eliminate 1,400 open jobs in restructuring [Globe & Mail]
-The ethics of Etsy [Toronto Star]
-Urban Outfitters breaks losing streak [Reuters]
-Juicy Couture to expand internationally, open first girl's store [Fierce Retail]
-Ron Johnson leads $16 million funding in Nasty Gal; second store in works [Chain Store Age]
-PetSmart to go private [Fierce Retail]
-Survey: Consumers not that interested in mobile payment [Chain Store Age]
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