Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: June 23, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
La Maison Simons Prepares to Open Innovative Londonderry Location [Renderings]
The unique store will feature new initiatives in environmental sustainability, local art work, and will also be the first to feature dedicated shoe departments.
Top Stories - National:
-Canadian retail sales top April forecasts (CBC) and Retail sales in Canada up 0.8% in April on gasoline, home supply stores (BNN)
-Sears Canada seeks reinvention as it falls to insolvency (Marina Strauss, Globe & Mail) and 'Being eaten away': Struggling Sears Canada to close 59 stores, cut 2,900 jobs in bid for survival (Financial Post)
-Is Sears Canada closing your store? Find out here (Financial Post) and Tears for Sears: The rise and decline of a Canadian retail giant (Financial Post)
-Look out Canada, Amazon is coming! (Canadian Grocer)
-The Source revamps stores to avoid becoming 'walking dead' in tech retail (CTV)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-‘Metaphorical handshake’ over Queen Street takes shape (re: CF Toronto Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge) (Daily Commercial News) and Etched Bronze Now Visible On New Eaton Centre Bridge (Urban Toronto)
-Cadillac Fairview Welcomes New WE Store at CF Rideau Centre (NewsWire press release)
-The end of Toronto’s Fiesta Farms? Christie property among several for sale (Buzz Buzz News)
-Organic Garage Plans Expansion Into Toronto's Liberty Village (Stockhouse press release)
-Sears Canada to close five Ottawa-area stores (CTV)
-LCBO extends hours at select stores ahead of possible strike (Canadian Grocer)
-Toronto police raid Canna Clinic marijuana dispensaries (Toronto Star)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Edmonton retailer Poppy Barley to open flagship store at Southgate (Edmonton Journal)
-IKEA launches collection point in Regina (CTV)
-Fate of historic Bay building in limbo (Winnipeg Free Press)
-Sears Canada leaving behind prime real estate in Calgary: analyst (Calgary Herald)
-Local food company opening up shop in Regina's old Weston Bakery building (CBC)
-Victory Barber & Brand opens in Duncan (Lake Cowichan Gazette)
-Abbotsford teen has own fashion line (Abbotsford News)
Our Previous Articles:
-Mark McEwan Grocery Store to Anchor Yonge-Bloor Transformation [Feature]
-Vistaprint Opens 1st Global Brick and Mortar Retail Space, in Canada
-Ladurée to Open 1st Toronto Location
-ALEX AND ANI Launches National Retail Expansion
-Holt Renfrew Unveils Luxurious 2-Level VIP Suites in Vancouver [Photos]
-Drake Commissary Debuts in Junction Triangle [Photos]
-Mall Profile: Bayview Village Shopping Centre [Feature/Photos]
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