Today's Retail News From Around The Web: March 9, 2015
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Loblaw Companies Ltd plans on opening 50 new grocery stores this year; renovate 100 others with $1.2-billion investment [Financial Post]
-Retailers expect to raise prices, feeling pinch of weak loonie [Globe & Mail]
-Landlords buy back Target stores for $138 million [Toronto Star]
-Is Lululemon really in a downward dog of decline? [Globe & Mail]
-Video: Nordstrom executive talks Canadian expansion plans [Globe & Mail]
-Nordstrom: The Luxury Chain that Does Everything Right [Marketing Magazine]
-How Nordstrom built the world’s best customer-service machine [Canadian Business]
-Canada's Triple Five proposes largest US shopping mall [Globe & Mail]
Canadian News: Region-by-Region
-This Pirate Sells Treasures From Trader Joe’s to Canadians [Wall Street Journal]
-Nordstrom boss 'overwhelmed' by reception at Ottawa opening (with video) [Ottawa Citizen]
-Burnaby wants to build new neighbourhood [24 Hours Vancouver]
-Kensington merchants speak out against grafitti [Toronto Sun]
Trending Topics:
-International Expansion Still High on American Retailers Agenda [World Property Journal]
-American Postal Union objects to Staples, Office Depot merger [Fierce Retail]
-Target faces a future of more modest growth [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
-Target's New CEO Is Plotting an Overhaul of Apparel, Home, and Beauty [Racked]
-Staples sales fall for eighth straight quarter [Yahoo]
-Fresh Market to exit California; will open 19 stores in 2015 [Chain Store Age]
-NRF: Retailers added 24,000 jobs in February [Chain Store Age]
Our Previous Articles:
-Ted Baker to Open Pacific Centre Location
-Black Goat Cashmere Eyes Cross-Canada Expansion, Opens 1st Toronto Location
-Bizou Plans Substantial Store Expansion
-UK Fashion Brand REISS to Open in Canada
-WLKN Secures $3 Million Financing for Store Expansion
