Top Stories: National
- Statistics Canada says retail sales gained 4.2 per cent in June as restrictions eased (CTV)
- Pattie Lovett-Reid: Is a perfect storm brewing for retailers? (BNN)
- A simple advertising approach for No Name’s Simple Check product line (Canadian Grocer)
- ‘A disaster’: Why Bay Street turned on Freshii after growth plans flopped (BNN)
- Lululemon seeks to create plant-based nylon (Eco Textile)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Chinatown residents worry new T&T Supermarket will draw business away from local grocers (CBC Toronto)
- Toronto restaurants make grocery pivots permanent (NOW)
- Majority of St. John’s residents are dissatisfied with the city’s food choices (Canadian Grocer)
- Walmart eliminates single-use plastic bags at checkouts at Gloucester store (CTV)
- ‘There just hasn’t been anybody’: N.B. restaurant struggling to attract staff (Global)
- Montreal’s Mile End bids farewell to beloved art gallery and curiosity shop (CBC)
- Josh Freed: If I’m bagging my own stuff, why am I not getting paid? (Montreal Gazette)
- Rum & Butter fever leads to boom in business for South Dildo chocolate maker (CBC)
- Experts praise Montreal’s single-use plastics plan, but say Canada has far to go (Canadian Grocer)
- Ontario’s economy on the rebound but pandemic scars remain, say AMO panellists (Midland Today)
Western Canada News
- Toys ‘R’ Us sale could bring Disney stores back to B.C. (Business in Vancouver)
- Retail Sales Rise in Saskatchewan Compared to a Year Ago (CJWW)
- The District at Beltline poised to unveil fine food destination (Calgary Herald)
- 2 more pedestrian scramble crosswalks being added on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton (Global)
- Say ‘Cheese’: Co-op invests in local cheesemaker to move to heart of Vermilion, Alta. (CBC)
- Police alarmed by rash of Calgary pharmacy robberies (Calgary Herald)
- How an increase in urban Indigenous-owned businesses enriches Sask. economy, shares culture (CTV)
