Top Stories: National
- Giant Tiger planning to increase store count to 300 amid COVID-19 (Global/Canadian Press)
- Walmart Canada first retailer to offer beef from certified sustainable farms (Grocery Business)
- Empire completes purchase of 51 per cent of Longo’s (Grocery Business)
- Sleep Country Reports Exceptional Results in Q1 2021 with 74.1% Net Income Growth (Yahoo)
- Four reasons Canadians are paying a lot more at the grocery store this year (Winnipeg Sun)
- Empire’s Olympic dream delayed, but not denied (Canadian Grocer)
- Arlene Dickinson launches new business growth initiative for food, health CPG (Grocery Business)
- Starbucks Canada offers all employees three paid sick days until September (CTV)
- National Food Waste Reduction Study Needs Input From Food Industry: Only One Week Left! (Newswire)
- Garage Pumps Up the Volume With North America’s Hottest Up-and-Coming Musicians in its Summer Campaign (Newswire)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Ontario government looking to extend provincewide stay-at-home order into June (Global)
- Farm Boy’s new store on Toronto’s Lakefront (Grocery Business)
- Fredericton Retail Property Company Building New Chain Restaurants, Superstore In N.S. (huddle.today)
- Organic Garage partners with Cheese Boutique (Grocery Business)
- Nova Scotia hair salon fined despite going to ‘great lengths’ to appear closed (Global)
- Vertical farm technology in Quebec for winter berries (Grocery Business)
- JRTech Solutions transforms Laferté Renovation Center to become the first North American hardware chain to use fully graphic Electronic Shelf Labels (Newswire)
