Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: June 2, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
High-End Fashion Boutique MC2520 Opens in Laval [Photos]
The unique and dramatic trend-focused 17,000 square foot retail space targets customers of a variety of ages.
Top Stories - National:
-Lululemon to close 40 ivivva stores; shares surge (Business in Vancouver) and Lululemon to close 40 Ivivva stores for girls; ‘athleisure’ retailer tops quarterly profit estimates (Financial Post)
-Report: 76 percent of retailers believe mobile is the future (BetaKit)
-With Its Earnings Debut, Can Canada Goose Take Flight? (Barron's)
-Retail Insider's Craig Patterson Discusses Canadian Retail (Elite SEM)
-Canadian vehicle sales set a record for the month of May: StatsCan (Canadian Plastics)
-Retail Council of Canada (RCC) confirms support for the National Farm Animal Care Council Codes of Practice for poultry (NewsWire press release)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Yorkdale Mall: West Wing the Next Step in Retail Expansion (Urban Toronto)
-Ex-engineer not guilty of criminal negligence in deadly Elliot Lake mall collapse (Toronto Star)
-Fredericton’s Plaza Retail REIT Is Reinventing Mall Culture Across Canada (Huddle)
-Farm Boy grocery chain to open first Toronto store in Etobicoke (Inside Toronto)
-Merchant Sons Opens New Retail Concept Store in Toronto (NewsWire press release)
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-Halifax gets Bazaar: PEI franchise opens first store outside of province (CBC)
-Salvation Army Thrift Store desperate for new Truro location (CBC)
-Craft beer makers worried as NB Liquor plans to drop domestic prices (CBC)
-Privatization worries surface during LCBO picket at Woodbridge store (York Region)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Developing Edmonton Retail - Shopping Centre Edition (University of Alberta School of Retailing/Consulting)
-Coffee and wine: Starbucks to serve alcohol in Vancouver in push to attract evening customers (Financial Post)
-first look inside the new Tom Lee flagship store (Vancouver: Straight.com)
-17th Avenue business owner appeals 'crazy' 90% property tax hike (Calgary: CBC)
-Molson sign comes down to make way for brewery district renovations (Edmonton: CBC)
-Manager speaks out after man crashes through shop’s roof in stunt gone wrong at West Edmonton Mall (Global)
Our Previous Articles:
-Drake’s OVO 'October’s Very Own' to Open at Yorkdale
-Genesis Motors Launches Canadian Retail Expansion [Photos]
-WANT Apothecary Focuses on Tasteful 'Neighbourhood Retail'
-KandJu Announces Significant Retail Expansion
-Ambitious ICE District Development Aims to Transform Downtown Edmonton
-Design Studio Burdifilek Wins 7 Retail Design Institute Awards [Photos]
-Retail Opportunities Abound in Ambitious Clairmont Heights Development
-Belstaff to Open 1st Freestanding Canadian Location
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