Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: August 12, 2016
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Rendering: Ivanhoé Cambridge
Our Articles of the Day:
1) PINKO to Open 1st North American Store in Montreal
2) Tsawwassen Mills Announces 133 New Tenants
3) Montreal Friday : Another Steve Madden to Open on Sainte Catherine & Fierte Montreal
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Top Stories - National:
-Retail Council of Canada urges governments not to give duty, tax breaks to U.S. online retailers [Global News]
-Metro profit rises, CEO says company gained market share in latest quarter [Globe & Mail]
-How the Internet of Things is going to transform retail [Canadian Business]
-Aritzia’s roomy ‘gathering places’ thrive in a tough Canadian retail space [Financial Post]
-Indigo Books is a book store no longer, says PI [Cantech Letter]
-Pokemon Go frenzy boosts real-life merchandise sales [Globe & Mail]
-Student group opens pop-up corner store to protest nutrition taxes [Canadian Grocer]
-Hudson’s Bay Company Announces Comparable Sales Results for the Second Quarter Ended July 30, 2016 [BusinessWire press release]
-Advances in On-line “Window Shopping” Forces Retail Outlets To Reconsider Worker Commissions [hibusiness.ca]
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-GTA malls want you for lunch [Toronto Star]
-Rideau Centre welcomes 25 new retailers [Ottawa: CTV]
-No-packaging grocery store opens in Montreal [CTV]
-Dartmouth-based New Scotland Clothing Co. selling Nova Scotia-made shirts [MetroNews]
-Loblaw backs off building a distribution centre in Cornwall, Ont. [Grocery Business]
-Ikea meatballs now available at Whitby pickup and order point [durhamregion.com]
-Grocery stores should employ more teens [Windsor Star]
-Sydney Mines thrift store posts security videos of thieves on social media [Nova Scotia: CBC]
Western Canada/North: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Overwaitea joins fight for lower supplier prices in Canada-wide grocery price wars [CKNW]
-Calgary businesses close without notice, leaving customers in lurch [CBC]
-Changes to Vancouver's Chinatown welcoming for some, wrenching for others [Globe & Mail]
-Tsawwassen Mills mall in Delta throws open invitation for 3000 more employees [Vancouver Sun]
-Local brewery cheers tax changes [Ft. Saskatchewan Record]
-Etsy and and Calgary's Glenbow Museum join forces for local makers [MetroNews]
-Late re-supply barges send food prices soaring in northern NWT [CBC]
Our Previous Articles:
-Rudsak Announces 3 New Canadian Store Locations
-Aritzia to Open Second-Largest Canadian Location this Month
-Christian Louboutin Opens Canadian Flagship, Plans Concession Expansion [Photos]
-One Bloor East Retail Podium Acquired
-Montreal Friday : Off The Hook Opens 2nd Location at William Gray Hotel in Old Montreal
-Retail Construction Challenge: Building Eileen Fisher
-Report Ranks 2 Canadian Retailers Among World’s Top 9 Shoe Stores
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