Top Stories: National
- ‘War for talent:’ Retail, restaurants offer perks to lure workers in hot job market (BNN)
- After years of expansion, HBC has fractured (Retail Dive)
- To mask or not to mask? Canadian shoppers talk PPE: Field Agent (Grocery Business)
- Meal kit market due for gut check as COVID-19 pandemic wanes (Global)
- Canadians will continue to cook at home after the pandemic: Deloitte (Grocery Business)
- Casting call! Real Canadian Walmart shoppers wanted (Grocery Business)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- 4 Quebec Businesses Have Been Fined For French Language Violations This Year — Here’s Why (mtlblog)
- Audio loop system for hearing aid users installed at retail stores in Sudbury (CBC)
- From selling Blue Jays merch to getting small businesses online (National Observer)
- ‘I do not believe that we’ll ever return to a pre-COVID normal’: N.S. enters penultimate stage of reopening (CTV)
- SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust : unveils ArtWalk, at SmartVMC in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (Market Screener)
- ergoCentric opens showroom at Square One in Mississauga (insauga.com)
Western Canada News
- Valemount BC residents fear losing only grocery store in the village (CBC)
- A Red Deer gas station’s sweet secret to success with candy (CBC)
- Bittersweet change of business ownership in Lethbridge: ‘Chinatown is no more’ (Global)
- Movie theatres, casinos and more can open to fully vaccinated Manitobans as of Saturday (CBC)
- Volunteers open ‘pay-what-you-can’ thrift shop in Calgary during pandemic (Global)
- How a Vancouver cafe became a staple of the city’s coffee culture (Dished)
