Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: October 21, 2016
/Our Articles of the Day:
1) Uniqlo Opens 2nd Canadian Store to Crowds [Photos]
The popular Japanese retailer opened its second Canadian location yesterday, with excited fans lining up for hours to view and shop the new space.
2) COS Opens 3rd Canadian Location [Photos]
The new store features a simplistic yet innovative design, and will be followed by a fourth Canadian location early next year.
Top Stories - National:
-Give us a break on foreign worker rules or we might leave Canada, Lululemon tells Ottawa (Financial Post)
-Harry Rosen reflects on building brand loyalty, keys to retail success (CTV News)
-Visa no longer accepted at Manitoba Walmart stores starting next week (Global News)
-Best Buy Canada teams up with Google on innovative retail experience (NewsWire)
-For retailers, classy store design improves sales (The Record)
-Starbucks Canada taps keg for new nitro cold brew (Toronto Star)
-Why grocery stores are pushing packaged foods to the perimeter (Canadian Grocer)
-Fixt stores dial into a relatively uncontested market in same-day smart phone repairs (Financial Post)
-UNBC professor tackles price market gap between Canada and US (Prince George Now)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-How Yorkdale’s new Nordstrom store is embracing design to woo shoppers (Toronto Star) and Chanel Iman, Jazzy Jeff, Lindsay Ellingson, and More at Nordstrom’s Latest Opening (Vogue)
-Vaughan couple arrested in brazen New Brunswick diamond theft (Toronto Star)
-OneREIT Announces Closing of Transaction to Sell Elgin Mall (StockHouse)
-Trudeau says Amazon Canada's new Ontario facility will create more than 700 jobs (BNN)
-Dominion store employees vote on tentative deal (Newfoundland: CBC News)
-North York's Yummy Market wins gold in specialty retail (MarketWired)
-Hola! Solfarmers brings premium Spanish products to Ottawa (Ottawa Magazine)
-Ottawa's new LRT stations expected to include coffee shops, take-out and cell service (CBC)
-'Native' Halloween costumes still available for sale at specialty store (Sudbury: CBC News)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Tsawwassen Mills opening highlights B.C.'s retail sector boom (Western Investor)
-South Delta businesses struggle in wake of megamall opening (British Columbia: CBC News)
-Sobeys closing IGA store in OCN, Manitoba, blames 'current economic situation' (CBC News)
-Store behind deadly food bug in Richmond allowed to re-open (Richmond News)
-Vancouver music [retailer] Red Cat Records keep culture on rotation (BeatRoute)
-Fort Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce launches 'Shop Local' (Fort Saskatchewan Record)
-'Legendary' Seebe General Store demolished (Rocky Mountain Outlook)
Our Previous Articles:
-Hillcrest Mall Launches South Wing Expansion
-Maison Birks Launches New Store Concept [Photos]
-How Tokyo Smoke Plans to be Canada’s 1st Premium Cannabis Retailer
-Inside Nordstrom at Yorkdale, and List of Brands/Boutiques [Photos]
-Inside Yorkdale’s Impressive Expansion Wing [Photos]
-RYU Apparel Announces 1st Toronto Location
-Warby Parker to Open 2nd Toronto Store
-Londonderry Shopping Centre Overhaul on Track for 2017 Completion [Before & After Photos]
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