Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: July 12, 2016
/Photo: Scott Norsworthy
Our Articles of the Day:
1) Shinola Opens 1st Canadian Store, Plans Further Expansion [Photos]
2) Saint Laurent Paris Opens 1st Freestanding Canadian Store [Photos]
3) Carrefour de l’Estrie to See Major Redevelopment [Photos]
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Top Stories - National:
-Staples Inc picks Canadian president to be new head of North American retail network [Financial Post]
-Active-wear brand Triple Flip measures success on tweens’ positive self-esteem moments [Financial Post]
-Pet Valu and Pet Supermarket Merge Forming Largest and Fastest Growing Small Format Specialty Pet Retailer (Pet Valu is Canadian) [BusinessWire press release]
-Flipp CEO Wehuns Tan on the personalized future of coupons [Canadian Business]
-CARSTAR Canada hits milestone with 250th store [Collision Repair Magazine]
-Ikea Canada Engages Customers With RFID at Pop-up Store [RFID Journal]
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Shipping container market brings healthy, cheap food to Moss Park [Toronto: MetroNews]
-Budds to become 'Clarence's Clearances' [Simcoe Reformer]
-DFASS wins Ottawa duty-free contract [DFNIonline.com]
-Indochino opens at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre [Style Democracy]
-Riverview Superstore donates unsold food to Moncton-area group [New Brunswick: CBC]
-Finding GMOs in your grocery cart [Halifax Chronicle Herald]
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Tsuut'ina First Nation plans major commercial development at Calgary's southwest edge (will include retail) [CBC]
-Soaring Alberni Street rents squeeze out restaurants along luxury row (great retail discussion as well) [Business in Vancouver]
-People keep trying to steal from a central Alberta Walmart by stuffing goods into their trousers [Stettler, AB, Edmonton Journal]
-Hatter launching clothing line for retail market [Medicine Hat News]
-Kamloops council to vote, again, on wine in grocery stores [Vancouver Sun]
-Iconic Winnipeg ice cream parlour demolished [CBC]
-Are British Columbians being gouged at the gas pumps? [Energeticcity.ca]
Our Previous Articles:
-Sephora Opens Largest North American Location [Photos]
-Pusateri's Fine Foods Opens at Oakville Place [Photos]
-Montreal Friday : Bois & Cuir, and 'The Warehouse' [Photos]
-Place Ville Marie Opens Observatory and 'Made in Montreal' Retail Space [Video]
-What's Happening on Bloor Street West [Expansive Photo Tour]
-Structube Plans Continued Store Expansion into New Markets
-Icebreaker Plans Continued Canadian Expansion, Confirms 2 New Locations
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