News at a Glance
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.
- Freshii partners with 7-Eleven Canada to sell food in 600 convenience stores (CTV)
- Mixed reactions to Quebec’s big-box stores requiring vaccine passports (Montreal Gazette)
- Specsavers translates its British wit for Canadians (Strategy)
- Shopify’s shrinking valuation summons the curse of Canadian tech (BNN)
- Crestpoint Real Estate acquires 2.8 million square foot Amazon fulfillment centre in Ottawa (Newswire)
- Plaza Retail REIT developing, buying, thriving (renx.ca)
- FreshCo opens new store in the Greater Toronto Area (Grocery Business)
- Coronavirus Update: How the pandemic is shaping main streets in five Canadian cities (Globe & Mail/subscribers)
- B.C. human rights complaint dismissed against Loblaws for mask policy (Times Colonist)
- City of Toronto opens applications for Main Street Innovation Fund to further support small businesses (toronto.ca)
- In with the old: Calgary second-hand stores say demand high for thrifted wares (CBC)
- With dozens of pot shops popping up across northern Ontario, legal weed market could be at ‘saturation point’ (CBC)
- Kelowna man wants to bring back the Blockbuster Video experience from his basement (CBC)
