Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: January 31, 2017
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Canadian Retail Continues to Polarize as Stores Close
A number of retailers have recently announced that they would close stores and exit Canada, while luxury/high-end retailers and lower-end retailers continue to open new stores and see success in this country.
2) Tesla to Open First West Coast Mall Store
The electric car retailer is expanding its Canadian brick-and-mortar locations this year, with a particular focus on shopping centres.
Top Stories - National:
-Book sales continued to migrate online in 2016, but paperback purchases beat e-books (Financial Post)
-Harley-Davidson will roar into downtown retail: permanent locations in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal (Strategy)
-HMV Canada CEO Nick Williams on Bankruptcy: 'Younger Audiences Are Less Into Purchasing Music' (Billboard)
-How a Millennial Mindset Is Helping This 116-Year-Old Retailer [Nordstrom] (Mentions Vancouver store: AdvertisingAge)
-CaliBurger Announces New Canadian Partnership (MarketWired)
-Equicom Connects Listed Issuers with Retail Investors (Newswire)
-Why Dollarama Inc. Is Still a Good Investment (Motley)
-Pop-up store in a car aims to raise awareness of homelessness (Toronto Star)
Available to paid G&M 'Unlimited' subscribers, and mobile app users: Canadian consumers slow to buy in to mobile payments (Globe & Mail)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-New Made-to-Measure Menswear 'Surmesur' Store Opens in Mississauga (InSauga)
-Timmins Sears to close in late July (Timmins Press)
-Structube opens downtown Montreal flagship (French/English) (Montreal-Weekly)
-BYO-Bag? Halifax committee could ask for report considering ban on plastic shopping bags (Metro Halifax)
-Nominate your work for Halifax Shopping Centre’s Canada 150 art installation (The Chronicle Herald)
-Lambton Mall Jewelry Tenant Staying Put In Sarnia (Blackburn News)
-East end Sault store stops postal service (Soo Today)
-The Best Candy Stores in Toronto (BlogTO)
-Ottawa's Kaleidoscope Kids Books to shutter (Quill & Quire)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Second H&M store to open in Winnipeg (CTV News) and H&M opening store at Kildonan Place (Winnipeg Sun)
-Oakridge and Pacific Centre transactions: tale of two malls (Vancouver Courier)
-Clive Wilkinson transforms Vancouver's former Sears department store into headquarters for Microsoft (Deezen)
Our Previous Articles:
-Change of Scandinavia Plans Ambitious Canadian Expansion
-Simons Partners with Cadillac Fairview For South Shore Flagship
-Park Royal Continues Remarkable Transformation
-Dx3 Conference Provides Exceptional Networking Opportunities
-Inside Azadi Jewellery's 1st North American Store [3D Photo Tour]
-Study Identifies Generation Z’s Influence on Retail
-Gerry Weber Shutters Canadian Stores
-MUJI Announces 2 Vancouver stores
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