Top Stories: National
- Sales at clothing and accessories stores in Canada rose by almost 24 per cent in March (Financial Post)
- Lululemon Sales Nearly Double as Store Traffic Rebounds (thestreet.com)
- Amazon Canada launches WorkingWell program across its Canadian operations to help prevent injuries, provide wellness and other (Bloomberg)
- Canada’s desperate search for service workers as provinces ready to reopen restaurants (Toronto Star)
- Sephora Canada Amplifies Indigenous Voices with its First-ever National Indigenous History Month Campaign (Newswire)
- Sleep Country shows that even Bianca Andreescu needs her rest (Strategy)
- Weston Foods makes executive sales appointments (Canadian Grocer)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Quebec’s Newest FREE Drive-In Theatre Is A Metro Parking Lot… Yes, The Grocery Store (mtlblog.com)
- DoorDash expans service to New Tecumseth in boost to local food businesses (TorStar)
- Ontario salons and tattoo shops left high and dry amid COVID restrictions (BNN)
- City rethinking commercial tax breaks for Orléans (Ottawa CBC)
- ‘Old-school’ local doughnut shop opens in Montreal – with prices to match (Globe & Mail)
- Opération Enfant Soleil Telethon: Walmart Canada contributes record donation of $3 million for sick children in Quebec (Newswire)
- General Assembly Pizza Now Available on TSX Venture Exchange, TSXV:GA (Businesswire)
Western Canada News
- Manitoba reopening plan coming next week: premier (CTV)
- B.C. menswear retailer Boys’ Co. to permanently close (with comment from Retail Insider’s Craig Patterson (Business in Vancouver)
- Walmart giving fed-up neighbours the cold shoulder in Penticton amid cold storage expansion plans (Penticton Herald)
- Tiffany & Co. brings high jewelry designs to Vancouver store for limited time (Vancouver Sun)
- Edmonton Krazy Binz store draws hundreds of bargain shoppers: ‘It was exciting’ (Global)
- ‘Western lifestyle’ inspires new rural clothing boutique (Western Producer)
- Jail ordered for Regina man who refused to wear mask, violently attacked several store employees (CBC)
- Vancouver Island’s tallest building proposed for downtown Victoria with 100,000 square feet of retail (CTV)
