Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: April 25, 2016
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Photo: Aritzia
Our Article of the Day:
Aritzia Reveals 2016 Expansion Plans
The popular Canadian fashion retailer will open new stores, relocate others, and expand several existing locations.
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Top Stories - National:
-PJ's Pets is closing 27 stores across Canada [CBC]
-In e-commerce battle, grocery stores perfect ‘click and collect’ [Globe & Mail]
-Rise in Canadian retail sales brightens outlook [Globe & Mail]
-Canadian Tire CTO Eugene Roman outlines $400 million drive to shift gears as a ‘clicks-and-bricks’ retailer [IT World]
-Sears Holdings and Sears Canada downsizing [Toronto Star]
-Competition Bureau conducts precious metal jewellery inspections [Canadian Jeweller]
-Gildan Activewear Announces First Quarter 2016 Earnings [Stockhouse]
-Canada Post could see lockout this summer (affecting e-commerce) [News 1010]
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-The unequal geography of Toronto supermarkets [Toronto Star]
-York regional council ponders allowing businesses to open on statutory holidays [YorkRegion.com]
-Consignment Pop Up Shop 'just such a Halifax thing' [CBC]
-Farmer says IGA takeover costing him thousands [New Brunswick: CBC]
-Downtown Sudbury to get its 3rd payday loan store [CBC]
-Here's What it Takes To Keep a Record Store Alive in Toronto [Torontoist]
-There's hope for independent bookstores in Toronto [BlogTO]
-Master jeweller Walter Schluep created wearable works of art [Montreal, Globe & Mail]
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Canadian Tire opens outdoor specialty store [Fort McMurray Today]
-Compensation in store for hundreds of Cambie merchants [Business in Vancouver]
-Lee Valley Tools store chain's 17th in Canada [Kelowna: Daily Courier]
-The Best Consignment and Thrift Stores in Vancouver [Style Democracy]
-Keeping Bay's facade a fine idea if all else fails [Winnipeg Free Press]
-London Drugs announces oral health screenings after successful pilot [Drug Store News]
-Video: Multi-million dollar Tiffany & Co. Blue Book collection on display in Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
-Vernon can join in on colouring book craze [Vernon Morning Star]
Our Previous Articles:
-Inside MEC's Newest Store Location [Photos]
-MEC Secures Former Future Shop Location for New Store
-m0851 Partners with Brokerage for Canadian Expansion
-Family-Founded Retail Construction Company Continues to Grow and See Success
-Overhauled RioCan Centre to Anchor Yonge and Eglinton Transformation
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