Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: March 6, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
SuitSupply Opens Montreal Flagship [Photos]
The stunning new three-level store is the largest in Canada, with unique interior design features as well as an expanded assortment of product.
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Top Stories - National:
-Aldo scion to lead the family’s footwear company as founder steps down as chairman (Financial Post)
-Hudson’s Bay’s bid for Macy’s stumbles as equity partners balk at deal, sources say (Financial Post) and -Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay invades Dutch high street + employing 1,800 people (Dutch News)
-Booster Juice, an Alberta success story, continues to thrive (Edmonton Journal)
-Canada reaches new milestones in domestic organic production (Fresh Plaza)
-Cara shopping for restaurants to counter decline in sit-down dining sector (Financial Post)
-Sport Chek Takes on Lululemon Athletica Inc. (Motley)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Saks OFF 5TH Celebrates the Grand Opening of Two New Stores in the GTA (BusinessWire)
-Battle of gourmet grocers brews in Rosedale (Toronto: Globe & Mail)
-LCBO recalls mislabelled vodka with 81% alcohol content (Toronto Star)
-Record shops alive and well in T.O. (Toronto Sun)
-Niagara Falls tourism fee called 'ridiculous' as some businesses make it mandatory (CBC News)
-How an Ottawa record shop is surviving the digital revolution (Ottawa Business Journal)
-Sleep Country Continues Expanding in Ontario (Yahoo)
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-Meet the Montreal optician on a radical mission to make glasses affordable for everyone (CBC)
-Eight ByWard Market businesses to stay open late Saturday night (CTV News)
-Shrinking community, growing business: Why a Mary's Harbour store is optimistic (CBC News)
-More than $10K worth of jewelry stolen from Upper Canada Mall (CTV News)
-Spryfield store owners decide to close up shop after wrench attack (CBC News)
-2 Rogers store employees tied up and pepper sprayed during cellphone robbery (CBC News)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Retail will overtake real estate as Vancouver's top-performing economic sector (Metro Vancouver)
-Metrotown mall owners sue developer over proposed mixed-use towers (CBC News)
-In the Garden: Garden centres face new challenge from box stores (Vancouver Sun)
-Edmonton man says West Edmonton Mall security crossed the line as they escorted him out of the building (CTV News)
-Need milk and a faux semi-automatic? Coquitlam convenience store has it all (CBC News)
-Too much junk: Thrift store closure called 'a step backward' for Whitehorse's zero-waste goals (CBC News)
Our Previous Articles:
-One Week Until Retail Thought Leadership Conference
-Sport Chek Launches 1st Women-Only Concept Store [Photos]
-Still Time to Register for Dx3 Conference in Toronto Next Week
-Inside Yorkville’s Soon-To-Be-Demolished Retail Plazas [Featured Photo-Tour]
-Woolrich Partners with Brokerage for Canadian Expansion
-Unique Canadian Beauty Invention Targets Global Expansion
-RCC to Host Retail Marketing Conference this Spring
-Holt Renfrew to Shutter hr2 Division
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