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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For March 27, 2025

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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 24 hours.

Dollarama to acquire Australian discount retailer the Reject Shop in all-cash deal (The Canadian Press)

Consumer spending not as weak as confidence, but could face ‘downward pressure’: RBC economists (BNN)

Hudson’s Bay managers will get up to $3 million in bonuses, but workers get no severance (CBC)

Metro CEO says tariff impact minimal so far, grocer in ‘wait and see mode’ (Canadian Grocer)

‘We’ve never seen this before’: Consumers looking to the labels to buy local (CTV)

How Canadians can shop for local apparel (CBC)

Retail coffee, cocoa prices up, sugar prices down: Loblaw March inflation report (Grocery Business)

Saskatoon says goodbye to Hudson’s Bay: A look back at a storied legacy (CKOM)

What the impending closure of Hudson’s Bay at the Pen Centre means for Canadian retail (Brock Press)

New ethnic supermarket, indoor amusement park in works near Tanger Outlets (Ottawa Business Journal)

As the Bay’s liquidation sales begin, Winnipeg shoppers wonder what will fill store’s spaces (CBC)

Walmart getting ready to open Port Credit store in May (Grocery Business)

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