Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: April 6, 2016
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Bikini Village Reveals New Store Concept and Expansion Plans
2) Van Cleef & Arpels to Open 1st Freestanding Canadian Location
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Top Stories - National:
-HBC enlists robots as it retools for e-commerce era [Globe & Mail]
-Hudson’s Bay Co says Saks Fifth Avenue opening a huge success despite weakness in luxury sector [Financial Post]
-HBC to open 40 Saks Off 5th stores in Germany as part of $1.5B expansion [Toronto Star]
-Billy Bee Honey Is Angering Canadians Like Loblaws Did Over French's Ketchup [Huffington Post]
-Inside the lawsuit against the maker of Cold-fX [Macleans.ca]
-Q&A with Cushman & Wakefield's new CEO, Chuck Scott [Bisnow]
-Canadian diamond moguls debut lab-grown line at Baselworld [Canadian Jeweller]
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Sobeys’ price cuts on 8,500 items in Quebec could trigger grocery war with Loblaw, Metro [Financial Post]
-Charlottetown merchants upset about downtown parking hike [CBC]
-The Crossing project gets tentative approval from Saint John [CBC]
-Caplansky's deli goes national with restaurants 'built for Instagram' [Globe & Mail]
-Uncle Tetsu brings more Japanese cheesecake to the core [Toronto Life]
-SIAL Canada is coming up next week [Montreal: Canadian Grocer]
-Hudson's old medi-centre sold to highest bidder [Montreal Gazette]
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Backstage Music celebrates 35th anniversary [Melfort Journal]
-Local food the way of the future [BC: CTV]
-Edmonton woman fired by plus-size retailer, after using word ‘fat’ in online post [CTV]
-Good Earth Coffee House celebrates 25 years [MarketWired]
-New products at Grocery and Specialty Food West show [Canadian Grocer]
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