Top Stories: National
- Retail sales fall 1.1 per cent in January to $52.5B: StatCan (BNN)
- New Look Vision sold to group including CDPQ and private equity firm FFL Partners (Canadian Press)
- Walmart Canada hands out $120M in bonuses to employees (Yahoo Finance)
- Sobeys pilots AI technology for enhanced customer data insights (Grocery Business)
- A year into his role as Canadian Tire’s CEO, Greg Hicks explains how the company’s physical stores aided its huge success in e-commerce during the pandemic (Toronto Star)
- Competition Bureau should come down hard on grocery store takeovers and price fixing (Toronto Star)
- Great COVID-19 bicycle boom expected to keep bike industry on its toes for years to come (CBC)
- Walmart is flush with cash while smaller rivals still struggle during COVID-19 (Global)
- Shopify’s Parabolic Move Is Far from Over (Motley Fool)
- DAVIDsTEA Obtains Court Order Extending Stay of Proceedings Under CCAA (Newswire press release)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- How Waterloo’s T&T Supermarket has weathered COVID-19 (CBC)
- Historic village of Delta (Ontario) rejuvenates downtown with two new store openings (CTV Ottawa)
- Now in vogue: sustainable shopping (thevarsity.ca)
- Port of Montreal workers reject final contract offer as truce ends, raising strike fears (Montreal Gazette)
- Willemsen brothers retiring from Henry’s barber shop, a Downie Street staple for six decades in Stratford (Beacon Herald)
- Halifax jewelry designer working on deals with Young and the Restless, Harrods (Saltwire)
Western Canada News
- Simple principles guide successful Alberta grocer Freson Bros. (Airdrie Today)
- B.C.’s restaurant industry wants in on the rush COVID-19 shot list (Canadian Press)
- London Drugs preps to deliver COVID-19 vaccine jabs at pharmacies (Business in Vancouver)
- ‘Non-fat Americano’: Vancouver coffee shop creates code order for people in danger (News 1130)
- Sask. outdoor businesses booming as spring arrives early (CBC)
- B.C. businesses brace for transition to a post-pandemic world (CBC)
- Duncan’s Peacock Photo and Restoration closing doors for good (Vancouver Island Free Daily)
