Top Stories: National
- Independent grocers ask feds to rein in e-commerce credit card fees as online orders explode (Financial Post)
- Loblaw, Loop want to bring back the old milkman model to cut plastic waste — but will consumers get on board? (Financial Post)
- Impossible Foods cuts suggested grocery store prices (Grocery Business)
- LGBTQ businesses, hit hard by COVID-19, look for shifts in federal programs (CityNews)
- U.K. fashion retailer Peter Ruis named president of Indigo (Quill & Quire)
- New Look Vision Group Inc. Announces Appointment of Jean-François Lacasse as Vice-President, Business Development (Financial Post)
- Amer Sports Names Retail Industry Executive Stuart Haselden CEO of Arc’teryx (Streetinsider.com)
- The pandemic accelerated e-commerce by five years: Now is the time to learn to successfully launch a Shopify-powered shop (StackCommerce)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Quebec to open businesses, hair salons on Feb. 8, keep curfew in place (CBC)
- Northwestern Ontario entrepreneur has suggestions on how province could reopen small businesses (CBC)
- Essex councillors push for re-opening of small businesses as owners struggle through lockdown (CBC)
- Kitchener Market sets up online shop: ‘This will make it easier to choose local’ (Global)
- P.E.I. makes legal changes to let pharmacists give COVID-19 vaccine shots (CBC
- Nova Scotia gas, diesel retailers win small hike in retail markup (Yahoo)
- Toronto mayor and Scarborough MPP ask Ontario to restrict cannabis stores (Toronto.com)
Western Canada News
- ‘Hot boss’ at small B.C. town clothing store rockets business to stratosphere (The Abbotsford News)
- Pandemic rules for stores, malls a grey zone for shoppers in Manitoba (CBC)
- Canadian artists create Valentine’s cards for London Drugs (Grocery Business)
- West Vancouver robber uses bear spray to steal $10,000 worth of sunglasses (Vancouver Sun)
- 3 noteworthy Starbucks locations that have closed in Calgary (Daily Hive)
