Welcome to the updated Canadian Retail News from Around the Web. News will now be archived daily for readers who may have missed past news stories. Feel free to provide any suggested comments/improvements to Craig Patterson at: craig@retail-insider.com.
Top Stories: National
- Retail sales rise 1.3 per cent to $55.2 billion in November as online shopping surges (CTV)
- 2.4M Canadian jobs at risk as COVID swarms small business: CFIB (BNN)
- COVID-19 could shutter more than 200,000 Canadian businesses forever, CFIB says (CBC)
- International food business acquires Canada’s Baby Gourmet food company (Grocery Business)
- At 0.7%, 2020 was the weakest year for inflation since 2009, StatsCan says (CBC)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Retail sales continue rebound, having risen 7 months in a row since COVID low in April (CBC)
- Ontario barbershop reopens despite provincial lockdown using loophole (CTV)
- Sobeys’ Montreal CFC construction underway (Grocery Business)
- Quebecers get a new online grocery store called Fergus (Grocery Business)
- ‘We’ll have stores on pretty much every block’: Noticed a sudden surge in the number of pot shops in Toronto? Here’s why. (Yorkregion.com)
- Bold Colours and Shapes Define the New Joe Fresh Flagship in Toronto (retailtouchpoints.com)
- More than 100 Canada Post employees at Mississauga, Ont. facility test positive for COVID-19 (CBC)
- When N.S. put a stop to video gambling at corner stores (CBC Archives)
Western Canada News
- Bleak biz survey shows 1 in 6 considering bankruptcy in Manitoba (Winnipeg Sun)
- Thefts plummet at liquor stores thanks to controlled entrances in Manitoba (CHVN)
- Sask. pharmacists waiting for direction on COVID-19 vaccine rollout (CTV)
- Here’s how this Vancouver video store is thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic (VIDEO) (Vancouver Is Awesome)
- East Van’s Bandidas Taqueria Launches New ‘Bandidas Corner Store’ Product Line (Scout Magazine)
