Top Stories: National

• Second Cup coffee chain sold for $14M to Quebec restaurant owner Foodtastic (CBC)
• Beyond e-commerce: Shopify aims to be world’s first ‘retail operating system’ (Financial Post)
• Consumers want to purchase in-store: Report (Grocery Business)
• Outcast Foods partners with Sportcheck (Grocery Business)
• Teens lose work as part-time retail jobs vanish due to COVID-19 (Yahoo)
• Leon’s Partners with Toronto Raptors to Bring their 25th Anniversary Court to Your Living Room (Press release)
• CT REIT Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2020 Results (Press release)

Central/Eastern Canada News

• Montreal stores, hair salons reopen to the relief of owners, shut-ins and the bedraggled (Montreal Gazette)
• Ontario will slowly open the door to some non-essential retail in the coming weeks — but many businesses are frustrated at being left out (Toronto Star)
• Declare thrift stores essential, Ottawa woman urges province (CBC)
• N.S. retail, fitness businesses expand capacity with loosened COVID-19 restrictions (Yahoo)
• Online Marketplace Brings Fresh, Local Groceries To Frederictonians (Huddle.Today)
• Paint Shop opening two new locations in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia (The Telegram)

Western Canada News

• Alberta begins Step 1 of easing COVID-19 restrictions (Edmonton Journal)
• New discount card encouraging Edmontonians to shop local (CTV)
• Know refund rules at Manitoba car dealerships, buyer warns after fighting to get deposit back (CBC)
• Chinatown dim sum maker opens revamped heritage business (Vancouver Sun)
• La Ronge Food Store moves to temporary hours due to outbreak (La Ronge Now)