Retail News From Around The Web: April 30, 2015
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Trending Topics:
-Apple Watch defect forces halt in production: Report [Toronto Star]
-Wal-Mart to build 115 new stores in China by 2017, upgrade 50 this year [Chain Store Age]
-Luxury spending to rise 7% [Fierce Retail]
-Survey: 20% of Millennials prefer not to interact with cashiers during checkout [Chain Store Age]
-PayPal rolls out one-touch payment option for all online retailers [Techcrunch]
-Study: Global consumers eye online groceries [Chain Store Age]
-Coach's business is all about the discounts [New York Post]
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-List of Retailers Opening and Expanding in Canada
-Outdoor Lifestyle Brand Sitka Looks to Expand Across Canada
-Holt Renfrew Vancouver Flagship to be One of North America's Largest Luxury Stores
-Holt Renfrew to Create 190,000 Square Foot Pacific Centre Showpiece
-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
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Class action suit seeks $2 billion from Loblaw, Joe Fresh over 2013 Bangladesh garment factory collapse [Financial Post]
-Is the sky really falling in retail? (Column) [Marketing Magazine]
-Uber Is Quietly Testing A Massive Merchant Delivery Program [Techcrunch]
-Lululemon Athletica Inc facing calls for board reform, transparency from shareholders [Financial Post]
-Grand & Toy® Partners with McMaster University to Discover How Environmental Issues Influence Students’ Career Choices [Grand & Toy]
-Canadian Tire program lets consumers do the talking [Marketing Magazine]
-Target’s out, but what’s in? [Mortgage Broker News]
Canadian News - Region-by-Region:
-Union Station to get massive food market [BlogTO]
-Quebec still may target retail names [Chronicle Herald]
-Vancouver pot dispensary raided, owner backs police [Vancouver Province]
-Jacobson's Sydney closure latest blow to downtown [Nova Scotia: CBC]
-Loblaws says no evidence of discrimination in pigtail case [Ottawa-Yahoo]
-Where luxury clothing brands go to die [Toronto Star]
-Toronto vending machines are about to get weirder [Toronto Star]
