Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: January 16, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
Footwear Retailer Shumaker Announces Store Expansion
The Canadian company continues to open new locations, and it’s launching a new real estate strategy that includes its first street-front stores, beginning this spring.
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Top Stories - National:
-Note to Dejected U.S. Retailers: Malls Are Still Big in Canada (Bloomberg) and RCC: Malls in Canada still big business (Toronto Star)
-Pop-up shops bounce into malls as short-term leases benefit retailers, landlords (CTV)
-Walmart acquisitions point to increased competition in online shoe selling (Business In Vancouver)
-Online shopping drives surge in holiday returns, and what happens next may surprise you (Toronto Star) and Here's what really happens to all those gifts you return to the store (CBC)
-Canada Goose said to be planning dual-listing IPO as early as February (Financial Post)
-Craft brewers hop back to classic tastes (Toronto Star)
-4 Reasons Why Alimentation Couche Tard Inc. Is Attractive Today (Motley)
Available to Globe paid 'Unlimited' subscribers, and mobile app users: How Home Hardware is renovating its business strategy (Marina Strauss, Globe & Mail)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Toronto has both Canada's most profitable shopping centre and its busiest (Daily Hive Toronto)
-What Indigenous businesspeople in Toronto think about a district of their own (CBC)
-As Toronto's Fashion District changes, small businesses are feeling the heat (Globe & Mail)
-Cannabis Culture accused of attracting anti-LGBT clients to Toronto’s gay village (Daily Xtra)
-How Toronto's shipping container market survives the winter (BlogTO)
-10 Quirky Facts About Square One in Mississauga (InSauga)
-Starbucks Sets Records with Opening of Cornwall Store (Choose Cornwall)
-Carsand-Mosher to end 46-year history in Truro at the end of February (Truro Daily News)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Southgate Centre among most successful malls in Canada (Edmonton: CBC)
-Malls in Vancouver among Canada’s best performing commercial spaces (Mortgage Broker News) and Vancouver malls rank among top three busiest in Canada: Survey (CKNW) and Two of Canada's three most profitable malls are in Vancouver (Daily Hive Vancouver)
-Redevelopment plan proposed for site of former Granville 7 Cinemas (Vancouver: CBC)
-B.C. entrepreneur sees niche in $1,000 shoes (Business in Vancouver)
-Independent shops counteract Tsawwassen Mills mega-mall with 'buy local' campaign (CBC News)
-Art and fine furniture changing Winnipeg's City Place (Metro)
-Deerfoot Mall welcomes Canadian Tire (Western Investor)
-Pop your trunk: Amazon has a delivery for Vancouver company (Business In Vancouver)
(Western Canada news continues below)
-Walmart hit with 174 violations for allegedly selling wildfire-contaminated food in Fort Mac (iNews)
-Vancouver's MUJI pop-up is so hotly anticipated you'll need a damn reservation to access the store (Straight)
-Downtown Winnipeggers working it out without a major grocery store: Survey (CBC News)
-Downtown Victoria bustling with new businesses, report says (CTV News)
-Craft brewing industry hopping, looking to draw visitors in Saskatchewan (National Post)
-Business Beat: Mackenzie Avenue neighbours get new owners (Revelstoke Review)
Our Previous Articles:
-Nespresso to Expand into Western Canada
-World’s Most Powerful POS Software Expands in Canada
-William Ashley to Relocate Mink Mile Store
-Nordstrom Appoints New Canadian Vice President, Announces 6th Rack Location
-Theory to Enter Canada with Store Locations
-2017 Canadian Retail Forecast [Analysis]
-The Rec Room Announces Canadian Shopping Centre Expansion
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