Top Stories: National
- Popular TikTok videos with ‘BookTok’ hashtag give book retailer Indigo a sales boost (CTV)
- Supporting Canada’s local businesses with ‘Shop Small’ campaign (Global)
- Having a hard time accessing your favourite products? Blame the shipping container crisis (Global)
- ‘Buy now, pay later’ trend has analysts concerned shoppers could pile on debt (CTV)
- How this summer’s drought could have you paying high beef prices again next year (CBC)
- H&M will introduce resale in Canada (Morning Brew)
- Indigo turns the page on back-to-school (Indigo)
- Shopify to require staff to show proof of full vaccination before meeting up (Canadian Press)
- Shoppers Drug Mart provides funding to 19 to Zero, supporting research to better understand and address vaccine hesitancy in Canada (Newswire)
- Tim Hortons China nears deal to go public through SPAC, sources say (Financial Post)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Yes to Sunday closures during pandemic, but not for hardware stores, survey finds in Quebec (TorStar)
- Shooting inside Sherway Gardens sends shoppers running for their lives (Toronto Sun)
- How did we get from vinyl to streaming? Owner of iconic Hamilton record store looks back (CBC)
- Government of Canada supports revitalization of main streets and neighbourhoods across southern Ontario (Newswire)
- Need a toaster? This Nova Scotia pharmacy store manager has 220 more than what she wanted (CBC)
Western Canada News
- Manitobans approve of easing health orders but not dropping mask mandate (o.canada.com)
- Armani Exchange expanding store in Burnaby’s Metropolis (Burnaby Now)
- Central Saanich market offers shopping, snacking in the woods (Vancouver Island Free Daily)
- New noise rules means developers can build more housing near CF Polo Park in Winnipeg (CTV)
- Olympic diver, avid knitter Tom Daley looking for yarn shops in Calgary (Toronto Sun)
- Metropolis in Burnaby adds high-end ‘cute stuff’ shop as vacant stores fill up (Burnaby Now)
- The Home Front: Barter Design opens first Vancouver showroom (o.canada.com)
- ‘It was my second home’: customers lament closure of ‘silent’ Burnaby mall Starbucks (VIA)
- This single mom’s growing jewellery business a Vancouver immigrant success story (VIA)
- 1 Vancouver Island region to consider phasing out gas stations (CBC)
