Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: July 28, 2017
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Our Article of the Day:
Copper Branch Launches National Expansion
The Canadian ‘plant-based power-food’ quick-service restaurant concept is growing rapidly, with plans to open at least 20 locations next year.
Top Stories - National:
-Rise of the machine: New owners of Jean Machine pitch relaunch after insolvency (CBC)
-Outgoing Sears Canada employees try to stop $7.6M in bonuses for execs (CTV) and Former Sears employee in Ontario says stopped severance was like ‘slap in the face’ (Global)
-Military embraces, retail industry shuns trans workers, says Carleton prof (CBC)
-“A great fit for airports”: Booster Juice targets expansion in travel retail (Moodie Report)
-RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust: Don’t Believe the Worries About Retail (Investing: Motley)
-Starbucks to shutter all Teavana stores as sales disappoint (CTV)
-Amazon profit slumps 77 per cent as costs surge; shares fall (Globe & Mail)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Hudson’s Bay to open new namesake store in Montreal (Globe & Mail)
-Quebec's language watchdog targets Montreal spice shop's English-only website (CBC)
-Demolition Clearing Site for The Well at Front and Spadina (Urban Toronto)
-Ancaster Sears' sell-off begins amid calls to fix 'unfair' bankruptcy law (Hamilton News)
-Coast's last video store closing its doors (Coast Reporter)
-Four SAQ employees fired after promotional tasting event goes sour – report (Montreal Gazette)
Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB
-Indigenous man streams live video of confrontation at Regina Canadian Tire (CTV) and Canadian Tire apologizes after Indigenous customer thrown out of Regina store (CBC)
-Kal Tire at mall says 'business as usual' despite Sears closing (Medicine Hat New)
-Nipawin Extra Foods to be converted into a No Frills (Parkland Review)
-Workers at a Tim Hortons in Winnipeg vote to unionize, second group to do so (CTV)
-SLGA store closed for good at Market Mall (Regina: CKOM)
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