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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For May 30th, 2023

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Retail Insider is streamlining its Canadian retail news from around the web to include a handful of top news stories that can be viewed quickly during the day. Here are the top stories from the past several days.

Inflation is changing the way Canadians are spending (Globe & Mail)

A large number of Canadians don’t trust food companies with AI: Sylvain Charlebois (Grocery Business)

How Sundays, A Canadian Furniture Brand, Is Growing When Many Other Home Retailers’ Sales Are Slowing. (Forbes)

Loblaw winding down third-party marketplace, focusing on pharmacy and grocery online (Canadian Grocer)

Ottawa’s token gesture for lowering credit-card fees favours Bay Street over Main Street (Globe & Mail Op-Ed/ subscribers)

Retail employees are struggling with mental health (Hardlines)

Ex-Burnaby Metrotown Oak + Fort clothing store employee charged in alleged $81K fake refund fraud (Castanet)

Is Toronto hurtling toward a ‘city-cession’? New data paints a gloomy picture as consumer spending slows (Toronto Star)

Sweet Potato grocery store opens in midtown Toronto after delays (Streets of Toronto)

Quality Foods opens in Colwood, B.C. (Grocery Business)

Ren’s Pets to open 2 new retail locations (Pet Food Processing)

Nova Scotia seeing steady increase in number of farmers’ markets (CBC)

Healthy food increasingly out of reach for Vancouver Island’s poorest, says report (Times Colonist)

Manitoba Opposition Member Raises Idea of Government Action on Grocery Prices (ChrisD) ********

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