Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: August 5, 2015
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Photo: La Cure Gourmande
Our Article of the Day:
La Cure Gourmande Plans Substantial Canadian Expansion
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Update: Indigo says the weaker loonie is hitting its bottom line [CBC]
-Indigo Books & Music Inc sales rise for seventh straight quarter [Financial Post]
-Laura clothing chain files for creditor protection [CBC]
-Loblaw closures blamed on 'cannibalizing' own market [Vancouver Sun]
-Apple Canada tells Ingram to stop selling used iPhones to Wind [Globe & Mail]
-Holt Renfrew's rich rewards for loyal customers [Marketing Magazine]
-Re-inventing retail: How companies are setting themselves apart [CTV]
-Indochino's big move into bricks-and-mortar (Q&A) [Marketing Magazine]
-Canada’s UGO mobile wallet nets 50,000 users as Apple Pay looms [Toronto Star]
Canadian News - Regional:
-Metrolinx seeks partners to operate retail or restaurants in GO stations [Toronto Star]
-Samsung to open first retail store in Ontario [Marketing Magazine]
-Tommy Hilfiger shuts downtown Montreal boutique [Montreal Gazette]
-Canadian Tire money has a new use in Saskatoon [CBC]
-Silver Snail comic book store in Ottawa to close its doors [CBC]
-Sylvain Charlebois: Grocery stores face a changing landscape [Victoria Times Colonist]
-Officers force closure of Winnipeg “pot shop” [Global]
-SPCA seizes 550 exotic birds in Montreal [CBC]
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