Retail News From Around The Web: April 27, 2015
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Trending Topics:
-Mall productivity surged in 2014 [ICSC/SCT]
-Food helps drive strong Q2 for Starbucks; 1,650 net new stores planned [Chain Store Age]
-Walmart shifts focus to fresh foods [Fierce Retail]
-Authentic Brands Group acquires Jones New York [ABC]
-Retail sales surging at O'Hare Airport after redevelopment [Shopping Centers Today]
-You No Longer Have To Be 'Hot' To Work At Abercrombie [Huffington Post]
-Amazon comes to your wrist [Chain Store Age]
-Do Department Stores Have a Future? [Fashionista]
Our Previous Articles:
-Chinese Tourism May Explain Canada's Increase in Luxury Retail [With Infographic]
-Yorkdale Announces West Expansion With Canada's Largest Restoration Hardware
-West Elm to Open its 4th Canadian Location in Calgary
-Porsche Design Halts Expansion, Closes All Canadian Locations
-Kit and Ace to Open West Edmonton Mall Flagship
-Confirmed: COS by H&M to Open Canadian Locations
-AllSaints to Open 2nd Free-Standing Canadian Unit
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Top Stories-Canada:
-Sobeys boosts East Coast footprint with Co-op deal [Globe & Mail]
-How Australian skin-care company Dr Roebuck's conquered Shoppers Drug Mart without even trying [Financial Post]
-Canadian companies know why mobile coupons matter [Business Review Canada]
-Pepsi to drop aspartame in U.S., no changes planned in Canada [CTV]
-Is Metro Inc. a Buy After its Surge of 40% 6 Months Ago? [Motley Fool Canada]
-Just $20 a month: Google Fi might be exactly what Canada needs [CBC]
-Keeping track of shoppers [Canadian Grocer]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Sherwood Park Mall (near Edmonton) to see change, new DSW Shoes [Sherwood Park News]
-Final chapter for Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore [Daily Commercial News]
-Co-op Atlantic Board Recommends Divestiture of Food and Gas Assets [Newswire]
-Goodbye, Cirone's: Beloved Beaches grocery store set to close after 50 years [CTV Toronto]
-Vancouver pot shops should be shut down, says Rona Ambrose [CBC]
-Owl's Nest celebrates 40 years of bringing a personal touch to the 'screwy business' of selling books [Calgary Herald]
-Letter: Bookstores are vanishing from downtown Montreal [Montreal Gazette]
