Top Stories: National
- ‘Feel good’ spending is on the rise (Strategy)
- Walmart Canada introduces pollinator health commitments (Grocery Business)
- Canadian Mattress Company, Mattress Mattress® now accepts Crypto Currency Online as a Form of Payment (Digital Journal)
- Walmart raises $8.3 million for Children’s Miracle Network (Grocery Business)
- School’s Out: Staples Canada launches Virtual Summer Camp and Kids Summer Activities Guide (Newswire)
- M&M Food Market looks to attract franchisees (Maple Ridge News)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Farm Boy celebrates opening of 40th store in Ontario, in Oakville (Grocery Business)
- How Guelph’s oldest hockey shop braced through COVID during a gameless year (Guelph Today)
- Despite being closed for most of the pandemic, the beat goes on for ‘Just Drums’ (Toronto Star)
- What the pandemic has done to the customer service industry (cultmtl.com)
- Downtown safety proposal heads to Sault city council (CTV)
- Another kosher store attacked in Ville St. Laurent (The Suburban)
- Privatizing NLC could raise cost of booze, put minors in peril, says MADD (CBC)
- Halifax-area shops hit hard, others test waters as retail copes with pandemic (subscribers only: Saltwire)
Western Canada News
- Community Natural Foods re-opens after renovation in Calgary (Canadian Grocer)
- Quality Foods to open new B.C. store near Victoria (Grocery Business)
- Gourmet candy stores in Sask. focusing on sweet treats, ‘Instagrammable’ spaces (newsoptimist.ca)
- Heat wave forces Vancouver restaurants to curb operations or close entirely (VIA)
- Whitehorse Asian grocers team up to weather the pandemic storm (CBC)
- Lineups for new doughnut store in Coquitlam (604now.com)
