Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: January 20, 2016
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Our Article of the Day:
1) New Platform Connects Canadian Retailers with Available Short-Term Spaces
2) Brentwood Town Centre to See AMAZING Transformation – The Amazing Brentwood
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Top Stories - Canada:
-BB8 droid, light sabers and other Star Wars toys help boost holiday toy sales by 22% [Financial Post]
-Online sales in Canada jumped 20 percent during the holiday season [Mobile Syrup]
-Square appoints Cathy Vigrass to lead Canadian operations [Betakit]
-Marc Poulin gets candid about Safeway integration [Canadian Grocer]
-Let’s be clear: why transparent packaging works [Canadian Grocer]
Canadian News - Regional:
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Lansdowne Centre in Richmond, BC to undergo major redevelopment [Vancity Buzz]
-Are soaring commercial assessments 'beginning of a disaster' in Vancouver? [Globe & Mail]
-Earth's General Store downtown begins delivering groceries via bicycle [Edmonton Journal]
-Contraband tobacco seized from Edmonton convenience store [CBC]
-New brewery, distillery to set up shop in Saanich [Victoria Times Colonist]
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Goodwill workers in Ontario left in 'legal limbo,' union says [Globe & Mail]
-Pincourt mall has been sold and could be site for new cinema complex [Montreal Gazette]
-Sobeys CEO Addresses the Canadian Club [Grocery Business]
-Hamilton's Goodwill expanding, unaffected by Toronto closures [Hamilton Spectator]
-A Quarter Century of Suspect Video [Torontoist]
-Ironworks Distillery opening a liquor store at Halifax airport [CBC]
-New farmers market to open in Charlottetown at Farm Centre [CBC]
-Shake, strain and serve: A small, well-hidden gem [The Concordian]
Our Previous Articles:
-Simons Prepares for GTA Debut
-Eddie Bauer to Replace Robson Street French Connection
-Online Retailer Maple Harbour to Open Brick-and-Mortar Stores
-Oakridge Centre Expansion Scaled Back
-Inside Erin Mills' Overhaul [Photos]
-H2O Plus Closes Canadian Stores, Halts Shipping
