Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: September 21, 2015
/Our Articles of the Day:
1) COS by H&M Opens 1st Canadian Location
2) West Edmonton Mall Landlord Secures Major Luxury Brands for American Dream
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Top Stories - Canada:
-iStore, which specializes in selling Apple products, ventures into shopping malls [Financial Post]
-Canadian retailers poised to raise prices amid slumping loonie [Globe & Mail]
-How Vancouver's achingly hip Herschel Supply Co. backpack became so ubiquitous [Financial Post]
-EBay Canada's Andrea Stairs takes pragmatic approach to business, life [Globe & Mail]
-How YouTubers are influencing back-to-school spending [Toronto Star]
-Kruger campaign targets Chinese-Canadians [Canadian Grocer]
-Danier Leather Reports Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results [Stockhouse]
-Food inflation prompting consumers to change habits [Global News]
-Hudson's Bay Company Appoints Dion Rooney as Executive Vice President [Stockhouse]
Canadian Retail News - Regional:
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Nordstrom opens its doors to cheers and fanfare in a party atmosphere [Business in Vancouver]
-VIDEO/PHOTOS: Nordstrom opens third Canadian store in Vancouver [BC Local News]
-Photos: Meinhardt grocery opens today in downtown Vancouver [Georgia Straight]
-Dude, where's my book? U of A bookstore reorganizes [Metro]
-City Park group resolves to keep food store in Saskatoon neighbourhood [CBC]
-On the Road: Mercedes breaks new ground in Calgary [Driving]
-New MTS flagship store puts the customer first [Winnipeg: Broadcaster]
-Save On Meats owner sued by Vancouver Community College [CBC]
East: ON/QC/Maritimes & Territories
-Film, fashion and…food? Metro’s unorthodox marketing mix [Canadian Grocer]
-Supermarkets selling beer will get cut off after 300 six-packs a day [Toronto Star]
-East Coast clothing brand had classroom beginnings [Waterloo Record]
-Samantha Pynn launches decor line [Ottawa Citizen]
-Store Tour | Little Island Comics in Toronto [CBR]
-Windsor's Sears store set to close [Hants Journal]
-Hay River, NWT, cuts the ribbon on new Caribou Centre [CBC]
-Waterloo Parkdale Plaza mall declared fire 'crime scene' [CBC]
Our Previous Articles:
-Saks Fifth Ave Launches Canadian Marketing Campaign (Including Videos)
-Bailey Nelson Plans Cross-Canada Expansion
-British Retailer Jermyn Street 1664 Plans Multiple Canadian Locations
-Nordstrom Reveals Brands Carried in its Pacific Centre Flagship