Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: December 2, 2016
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Top Stories - National:
-Surprise! Air Miles says it’s cancelling controversial expiry policy previously set for end of 2016 (Financial Post) and Air Miles nixes expiry policy but some customers angry they rushed to spend miles (CBC)
-Frank + Oak launches NBA licensed merchandise (Style Democracy)
-Sobeys debt is priced one step above junk (Toronto Star)
-Love affair with IKEA still burns brightly in Canada (Richmond News)
-Longo’s expands Grocery Gateway (Canadian Grocer)
-PBH Canada: Offering Free POS Terminals (Digital Journal)
-Is Aritzia Inc. the Next Lululemon Athletica Inc.? (Motley)
-Available for paid 'Unlimited' subscribers and to those using the Globe & Mail mobile app: Metro to trim payments to suppliers in effort to lower prices (Marina Strauss, The Globe & Mail)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Duty Free Shop plots big renovation in bid to double sales (The Moodie Davitt Report)
-Popular Vancouver barber shop Barber & Co. opening in Toronto [Ossington Avenue] (BlogTO)
-Urban Decay Square One opens this weekend (Style Democracy)
-Queen's Marque development on Halifax waterfront approved without staff-recommended conditions (Metro Halifax)
-Social Notes: Ogilvy throws a fine fête indeed (Montreal Gazette)
-Toronto store can turn you into a Christmas ornament (BlogTO)
-Nunavik, Quebec shoppers pay 48 per cent more for food than southerners: study (Nunatsiaq)
-Salvation Army Thrift Store welcomes new manager with over 30-years of retail experience (Inside Ottawa Valley)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Calgary retailers looking for signs of economic life as another holiday shopping season begins (Calgary Herald)
-41% of Albertans plan to spend less on Christmas this year (Global News)
-Nesters Market opening by Kelowna airport today (Kamloops B.C. Now)
-Eight-screen Landmark Theatre complex to be built in east Regina (Regina Leader Post)
-Yorkton slated for new private liquor store (Yorkton This Week)
-Despite business closures, Rossland’s downtown commercial spaces remain mostly occupied (Rossland News)
-New West business works to keep needy folks warm in winter (New West Record)
-The Lobby DVD Shop: Last store standing (Vue Edmonton)
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