Top Stories: National
- It’s time to stop wiping down groceries and other COVID-19 cleaning measures that don’t reduce transmission risk (Globe & Mail)
- Cobs Bread takes steps to tap new avenues for growth (Strategy)
- Growth of vertical farms aims for retail in Canada (Grocery Business)
- Canadians want to support local businesses in their communities and half are willing to pay more if needed (Newswire press release)
- Reitmans (Canada) Limited Provides Further Update on CCAA Process (Newswire)
- View from the C-Suite: Destination Canada asks travellers to spend locally (Strategy)
- Reitmans campaign puts Canada’s diversity into the spotlight (Strategy)
- New Loblaw campaign asks, ‘Do you yuzu?’ (Canadian Grocer)
- Industry gets behind Grocery Heroes Day on July 19 (Grocery Business)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Hamilton Mountain County Fair Plaza Walmart closing permanently on Aug. 27 (Hamilton Spectator)
- Despite dire predictions, fewer than 5% of Toronto businesses have gone bust — but what happens when government aid is cut off? (Toronto Star)
- N.S. Small Business Owner Opens Shop In Protest, Plans To Fight $12,000 Ticket In Court (huddle.today)
- ‘If it doesn’t change soon, it could be very bad’: Georgina businesses struggling to survive (Toronto Star)
- With sales down 95 per cent, Montreal souvenir shop owners hope tourists return (Canadian Press)
- ‘It’s still disheartening’: Windsor gyms, barbers and retailers not happy with delayed reopening (CTV)
- Metro stores in Ontario, Quebec raise $300,000+ for cancer research (Grocery Business)
- Hamilton’s Black-owned businesses face steeper climb out of pandemic’s grip (The Spec)
Western Canada News
- B.C. eyes return to normal in September with four-step plan (BNN)
- Get fresh food delivered directly from your local BC farms through this online grocery platform, DirectFood.store (VIA)
- New grocer-cafe hybrid ‘Oh Carolina’ opening in Vancouver (VIA)
- COVID-19 outbreak forces southwest Calgary Home Depot to close temporarily (CTV)
- Sephora to open at The Amazing Brentwood mall in Burnaby next week (Urbanized)
- How this Vancouver grocery store and café pivoted to pandemic life (VIA)
- Save-On-Foods pledges $10 million in support of community sport teams (Grocery Business)
- From nightclubs to cinemas: B.C. businesses offered path forward with reopening plan (VIA)
