Today's Retail News From Around The Web: March 20, 2015
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Cross-border shopping trends in reverse as losing loonie skirts 75 cents [Globe & Mail]
-Sephora shows fresh face in Canadian makeup retail [Toronto Star]
-IKEA Canada president plans future store growth [Calgary Herald]
-Mind the Gap: Retailer aims to rekindle apparel appeal [Global]
-Canada’s DavidsTea brews up U.S. expansion [Shopping Centres Today]
-GLENTEL Inc. Reports 2014 Annual Financial Results [Newswire]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Kit and Ace announces 10 new locations including in Kitsilano [Business in Vancouver]
-New grocery options heading to Jasper Avenue [Edmonton Journal]
-Vancouver-based Ingledew's Shoes celebrates 100 years with new flagship [Straight.com]
-Famous Footwear opens at Toronto's Vaughan Mills [Style Democracy]
-Does heating Montreal’s Ste.-Catherine St. make sense? [Renx.ca]
-Ontario raises minimum wage to $11.25 [CBC]
-Two N.S. Future Shop stores to close [Halifax Chronicle Herald]
Trending Topics:
-Sears vendors demand payment up front for new inventory [CBC]
-Target Corp eyes US$10-million settlement of data breach class-action suit [Financial Post]
-Jimmy Choo to expand in China after earnings rise [Yahoo]
-More than 50% of Williams-Sonoma revenue in 2014 done online [Chain Store Age]
-Whole Foods hosts first-ever beauty week [Fierce Retail]
-Toys ‘R’ Us to shut down massive flagship store in Times Square [Toronto Star]
-You could get up to $10,000 if you were a victim of the Target hack [BNN]
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