Top Stories: National
- Most influential brands: Tech dominates, but Walmart, Loblaws and PC Optimum score high marks (Canadian Grocer)
- Classic retail romance remains popular despite COVID-19 (BIV)
- SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust Releases Fourth Quarter and Year End Results for 2020 (press release)
- Shopify (TSX:SHOP) Stock vs. Lightspeed POS (TSX:LSDP) Stock (Motley Fool)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- St. John’s region in lockdown as COVID-19 cases skyrocket (Journal Pioneer)
- Even small businesses are now asking Ontario to legislate paid sick days (Flamborough Review)
- How COVID-19 restrictions are lifting across eastern Ontario (CBC)
- Mayor supports reopening non-essential businesses, restaurants in Ottawa (CTV)
- Holyrood General Store is an icon on the Huron-Kinloss landscape (Toronto Star)
- The SAQ expands its Montreal distribution centre (press release)
- Ontario conducts inspection blitz of distribution centres in Peel Region (CTV)
- Collaboration with Sherbrooke Village a boost for The Soap Company of Nova Scotia (Toronto Star)
- Kahnawake craft store owner brings people together with beadwork (CBC)
Western Canada News
- Vernon’s Canadian Tire store changes hands as Grant and Marie Hill-Turner retire (Castanet)
- Edmonton antique store targeted by armed masked men in the middle of the day (Global)
- B.C. couple ‘furious’ restaurant used phone number from contact tracing list to send promotional offers (CTV)
- High Tide Opens 70th Nationwide Cannabis Store in Calgary (press release)
- Acclaimed Vancouver restaurant Wildbeest confirms it won’t re-open after closing up when COVID hit (VIA)
- Choices Markets offering Valentine’s Day meal kits (Grocery Business)
