Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: June 27, 2017
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Jean-Paul Fortin Launches National Expansion [Includes Renderings]
The upscale Quebec-based footwear retailer will launch its first boutique outside of the province this fall, featuring a luxurious new store design, and with plans for an expansion that could take it coast-to-coast.
2) CF Toronto Eaton Centre Partners with Elaine “Lainey” Lui on Style Campaign, “Reflections of Toronto Style”
The prominent local celebrity has been named an 'official Toronto Style Ambassador' and being one of the top-performing downtown malls in North America, the campaign embraces diversity.
3) Digitizing Your Customers' Experience – 4 Ways Companies Can do it Successfully
A new study finds that there's a disconnect between what executives think consumers want and what consumers actually want.
Top Stories - National:
-Amazon's Prime bigger threat to Canadian retail than Whole Foods (Financial Post)
-With its 'endless aisle' Walmart Canada takes another swipe at Amazon (Financial Post)
-Sears Canada to delist from Nasdaq (BNN)
-Amid retail turmoil, Simons stays focused on culture and people, rather than aggressive expansion (Financial Post)
-E-tailers joining the real world (Globe & Mail)
-Canadian factories keep 250 Lush stores humming across N. America (Globe & Mail)
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-Air Miles raising cap on in-store redemptions (Globe & Mail)
-The E-Commerce Apocalypse Is Far From Hitting Canada (Better Dwellings)
-New gold standard emerges for Congo's miners, Canada's jewellery buyers (Globe & Mail)
-Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announces competition clearance in the United States and closing date of the acquisition of CST Brands, Inc. (NewsWire press release) and -Alimentation Couche-Tard wins US OK to buy CST, with conditions (Reuters)
-L'Oréal Canada appoints new Chief Marketing Officer (NewsWire press release)
-Tim Hortons franchisee row spreads to U.S., threatens expansion (Marina Strauss, Globe & Mail) and Tim Hortons' U.S. franchisees form alliance as tensions boil (Financial Post)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-LCBO strike averted and consumers, restaurants and the Finance Minister are all relieved (Toronto Star)
-Dormez-vous Continues Expansion in Quebec (NewsWire press release)
-Beer gets cheaper — permanently: 24-packs for some domestic brands drop to $35.99 (New Brunswick: CBC)
-Ceiling collapses at Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation store in Wolfville (King's County News)
-The city’s leading fabric retailer shops the world to bring variety and affordability to Montrealers (The Suburban)
-Change is coming to Toronto's Little India (NOW Magazine)
-Reader looking forward to fall opening of Farm Boy grocery store (Inside Toronto)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-La Maison Valmont opens first North American store in Vancouver (Business in Vancouver)
-LDEXPRESS by London Drugs opens on Stephen Avenue in Downtown Calgary (MarketWired press release)
-About the Alberta Minimum Wage Increase (U of A School of Retailing Consulting Group)
-'Touch, taste, smell' local: new market to open in fall (Newstalk 980)
-Province sells off first 3 liquor stores in Sask. as part of privatization process (CBC)
-Sears closure may spur Venture Kamloops study (Kamloops This Week)
-Aldergrove's Home Hardware is a family tradition (Langley Times)
Our Previous Articles:
-INDOCHINO Sees Substantial Growth as it Announces US Expansion [Feature]
-ECCO Opens 1st North American Flagship at Yorkdale [Photos]
-La Maison Simons Prepares to Open Innovative Londonderry Location [Renderings]
-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]
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