Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: March 1, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
Inside Yorkville’s Soon-To-Be-Demolished Retail Plazas [Featured Photo-Tour]
A wave of unprecedented, explosive growth will result in redevelopment of much of the affluent area. We photographed several unique, aging retail plazas, almost all of which will be gone as the neighbourhood transitions into a world class retail mecca.
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Top Stories - National:
Update: BCBG Max Azria to close all 51 Canadian stores as retailer goes insolvent (CBC)
-Canadian retailer YM (Stitches, Sirens, Suzy Sheir) in bid for bankrupt U.S. peer Wet Seal: source (Reuters)
-Fashion House BCBG Max Azria Prepares for Bankruptcy [includes Canadian stores] (Business Of Fashion)
-Canadian parka company Moose Knuckles awarded $68M in court (re: counterfeits: Kelowna Now)
-Filipino fast-food giant Jollibee serves up nostalgia at its first Canadian outpost + 4 new locations for 2018 (The Globe & Mail)
-IKEA Canada Invites Customers to Flip Pancakes in New Virtual Reality Kitchen (NewsWire)
-Behind Canadian Tire’s (old) viral spot (Strategy)
-The Future of Retail is Empowering Consumers (NewsWire)
-Gildan Plans US Manufacturing For American Apparel (ASI)
-Available to 'Unlimited' paid subscribers and G&M mobile app users: Wanna buy 20,000 pairs of shoes? Footwear, URLs sized for sale from Shoes.com receivers (The Globe & Mail)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Toronto’s Trendy Queen Street West Is Filling With Empty Storefronts (Better Dwelling)
-Tax break demanded for Montreal's small businesses (Montreal Gazette)
-Marshalls opening March 14 in St. John's (The Telegraph)
-King's YIG in Richmond is tops in the province (Ottawa Community News)
-Will Sunrise Records avoid costly downtown Toronto? (South Bayview Bulldog)
-Residents weigh in on Bloor West Village Avenue Study (Inside Toronto)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Sunrise Records set to take over HMV’s West Edmonton Mall location (Global News)
-Final curtain for Mitchell Fabrics (Winnipeg Free Press) and -Family-owned Mitchell Fabrics closing shop after 70 years (CBC)
-Trader Joe’s brand apple sauce recalled from Vancouver store (Canadian Grocer)
-Deborah Yedlin: New Calgary airport CEO ‘hell bent’ on fixing international terminal ‘short on functionality’ (National Post)
-Farmers market to pop up at Symons Valley (Calgary Sun)
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-Organic Grocer Launches Ontario Expansion
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