Top Stories: National
- ‘The reopening is now’: Lightspeed used the pandemic to bulk up — now it’s time for the next phase of its strategy (Financial Post)
- Retail Council joins call for code of grocery conduct, paving way for new rules on the big chains (Financial Post)
- Costco fiscal Q3: Canada comparable sales up 32.3% (Grocery Business)
- Small companies plan for biggest price hikes in more than a decade (Globe & Mail)
- The pandemic has changed the ways Canadians shop for groceries forever — and some might surprise you (Financial Post)
- Food sales are cooling, but other stores are rebounding (Strategy)
- Bijoux Birks Launches in 12 Saks Fifth Avenue Locations Across the U.S. (Newswire press release)
- Sleep Country and Bianca Andreescu join forces to awaken Canadians to the power of sleep (Newswire)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Ford government could consider earlier reopening if COVID numbers keep improving (680 News)
- Amazon plans to expand southwestern Ontario footprint with 2 London, Ont., warehouses (CBC)
- Peace by Chocolate’s sweet Canadian success story is getting the cinematic treatment (TorStar)
- Basinview Centre closure decision upsets grocery store operator, businessman (CBC)
- ‘If tourists don’t come, I don’t make money’: Shops in Old Montreal say reopening plan does nothing for them (CBC)
- Cape Breton councillor questions effectiveness of COVID-19 retail restrictions (CBC)
- Thornhill grocery store at centre of big COVID breakout (Toronto Sun)
- Third wave COVID-19 lockdown ‘crippling’ Colchester County’s small businesses (Saltwrire)
- SLCs extending hours again as new COVID-19 exposure sites drop (Global)
Western Canada News
- Mayfair shopping centre is about to be sold (Victoria Times Colonist)
- Manitoba prolongs COVID-19 restrictions, eyes crackdown in shopping centres (Canadian Press)
- ‘Cautiously optimistic’: Alberta businesses hope 3rd COVID-19 reopening will be the last (Global)
- Why Calgary Co-op’s local loyalty is so strong (Strategy)
- Sunterra Market adds new perks to rewards program (Canadian Grocer)
- Sidney serves up signal of support for downtown nanobrewery (Vancouver Island Free Daily)
- London Drugs partners with United Way to help period poverty (Grocery Business)
- Saskatchewan man pops the question in Regina Costco (Global)
