Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: March 15, 2016
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Surmesur Continues Expansion, Goes International
2) Home Furnishings Retailer 'Provide' Relocates Storefront [Photos]
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Top Stories - National:
-Target Canada fallout continues as court lifts ban on co-tenancy rights [Globe & Mail]
-Food halls make comeback in Canadian department stores (re: Pusateri's at Saks) [National Post]
-How not to handle M&A: Sobeys, Safeway and a $1.7-billion blunder [Globe & Mail]
-Loblaws drops French's ketchup from its shelves [CBC]
-Canadian border towns benefit from low loonie [Globe & Mail]
-Face-reading tech could make shopping more convenient -- and creepier [CBC]
-Holt Renfrew hits the road with a pop-up truck [Marketing Magazine]
-Purveyors of pot work to shake off the ‘Reefer Madness’ stigma, rebrand cannabis [Financial Post]
-How Loblaw baked data into its PC Plus loyalty program [Marketing Magazine]
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Loblaws franchise gets an opening date in Toronto's Entertaiment District [BuzzBuzzHome]
-beGlammed, the Uber of Beauty, Launches in Toronto [Cosmetics Magazine]
-City not prepared to outlaw retail store pet sales from commercial suppliers [Ottawa Citizen]
-Ottawa shop dropped from Record Store Day vinyl release promotion [Ottawa Citizen]
-Fashion visionary Barbara Atkin got her dream job by accident [Toronto Star]
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Tsawwassen Mills on track for fall completion [Bisnow Vancouver]
-Carman Co-op moves into La Salle [Winnipeg Free Press]
-Business coalition seeks direct talks with Premier Rachel Notley to stem economic carnage (including Retail Council of Canada) [Edmonton Journal]
-Northlands site could one day be home to retail and residential [Edmonton: Global]
-New BC law paves way for tighter organic food rules [Business in Vancouver]
-New Academy Road boutique [Winnipeg Free Press]
-Businesses we miss at McIvor Mall [Winnipeg Free Press]
-Best-before date a guide to food quality, not safety: experts [Victoria Times Colonist]
Our Previous Articles:
-Prada Opens Vancouver Flagship [Photos]
-Aesop Continues Rapid Expansion With More Canadian Locations
-Prominent Saint Catherine Street Retail Buildings Acquired
-Links of London to Open 2 Freestanding Canadian Locations this Spring
-World's 1st Saks Fifth Avenue Food Hall Opens [Photos]
