Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: June 16, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
Mall Profile: Bayview Village Shopping Centre [Feature/Photos]
The prestigious North York shopping centre has found its niche — catering to an upscale local clientele, while holding its own against prominent, larger neighbours.
Top Stories - National:
-‘Amazon is making a statement’: How the online giant’s Whole Foods deal will force Canadian grocers to change (Hollie Shaw, Financial Post) and Amazon shakes up grocery sector with $13.7-billion Whole Foods deal (Marina Strauss, Globe & Mail)
-Dollar Tree takes aim at competition with Canadian expansion plans (BNN)
-Merchants win right to ask customers to pay extra when using credit cards (Canadian Grocer)
-Surge in e-shopping blamed for Canada Post delivery delays (CBC)
-Rise of the machines: Canadian retailers on 'cusp' of using more robotics (CBC)
-Canadians at risk as counterfeit goods sneak through customs (CTV)
-LXRandCo, Inc. Enters into an Agreement for a $25,000,000 Credit Facility with a Chartered Canadian Bank (NewsWire press release)
-Initiative launches to support more diverse Canadian entrepreneurship (Globe & Mail)
-CRTC bans cellphone unlocking fees, orders all new devices be unlocked (CBC)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Thinking inside the box: Pop-up events reimagine big, empty Target store (CBC Hamilton)
-Lee Valley's Niagara Falls store set to open (Niagara This Week)
-Pop-up IKEA café coming to Queen St. W. (Toronto Star)
-Food shopping 'extremely stressful': Protests against high prices in northern Labrador (CBC)
-Redevelopment of 10-Acre Bloor & Dundas Site on the Horizon (Urban Toronto)
-HEIR kid offers streetwear style to grade-schoolers (Toronto: Now Magazine)
-St. Denis St. celebrates revival (Montreal: CTV)
-Arson suspected after Montreal North furniture store torched (CTV)
-Strong views emerge as stretch of The Danforth rebranded as The Danny (Inside Toronto)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Vancouver bans grocers from putting BC wine on shelves (Business in Vancouver)
-Winners store set to open at Grant Park Shopping Centre (Winnipeg: CBC)
-Vancouver first in Canada to get new SkipTheDishes liquor delivery service (NewsWire press release)
-Acquisition boosts North West Company sales (Winnipeg Free Press)
-C4 Eyewear teams up with Susie Wall (North Shore News)
-Cineplex Opening New Theatre in South-East Calgary with First-of-its-Kind Auditorium for Children (Stockhouse press release)
Our Previous Articles:
-Van Cleef & Arpels Opens 1st Freestanding Canadian Boutique
-LXRandCo Plans Major Expansion Under New Ownership
-Minotti Launches Canadian Showroom Expansion
-Harry Rosen Completes Oakridge Centre Store Renovation [Photos]
-Yorkville Village Announces Tenants as Overhaul Nears Completion [Photos/Floor Plans]
-Holt Renfrew Vancouver Pacific Centre Flagship Marks 10 Years [Feature]
-Canadian Designers to be Honoured at VMSD’s 2017 International Retail Design Conference [IRDC]
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