Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: January 25, 2016
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La Maison Simons Secures Former Target Location for New Store
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Top Stories - Canada:
-Sears Canada races to close more stores amid cost-cutting efforts [Globe & Mail]
-Canada's retail sales climb in November on new car purchases [Globe & Mail]
-Dole extends tainted salad recall further across Canada [Global]
-Five suddenly expensive food items in Canada [CTV]
-Food price increases push Canadian inflation up to 1.6% in December [CBC]
-Will retail shutdowns in U.S. affect Canadian malls? [Toronto Star]
-Canadian Tire announces recall of more than 87,000 booster seats [Financial Post]
-The real reason behind the great Cauliflower Panic of 2016 [Canadian Grocer]
Canadian News - Regional:
Western Canada/North: BC/AB/SK/MB
-How have local malls coped a year after Target said it was leaving Canada? [Vancouver: News1130]
-Burnaby schools get $48K boost from thrift shop [Burnaby Now]
-Tulita, NWT, food prices jump as Northern Store flies in groceries [CBC]
-Brick closing Edmonton, Montreal-area call centres [Edmonton Journal]
-New business aims to change the way we thrift shop [Vancity Buzz]
-Pigeon Park pawnshop Peter's Buy & Sell applies to reopen down the street [Vancouver: Straight.com]
-Ricki's closing in Prince Albert [Prince Albert (SK) Daily Herald]
-Sears Home store on Tolmie Ave. to shut in July [Victoria Times Colonist]
Central/Eastern Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Ikea to build full-size store in Halifax, the first of 12 new locations across Canada [Financial Post]
-What’s happened since Target left the GTA [Toronto Star]
-Laid-off Goodwill staff will be paid, CEO says [CTV]
-Charity case: Why Goodwill's failure in Toronto was anything but sudden [Globe & Mail]
-Amherst, N.S. shoppers set to make last buys at historic Dayle's department store [Global]
-Cricket pie, mealworm protein balls on the menu at Toronto's Summerhill Market [CBC]
-Editorial: All is not well for St-Denis merchants [Montreal Gazette]
-Grocery store to anchor new Kingston east shopping centre [Whig]
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-Total Transformation of Former Deerfoot Mall Under Construction
-Inside Van Cleef & Arpels' Newest Canadian Boutique [Photos]
-2nd Edmonton Outlet Mall Cancelled as Competing Landlords Strike Partnership
-New Platform Connects Canadian Retailers with Available Short-Term Spaces
-Brentwood Town Centre to See AMAZING Transformation – The Amazing Brentwood