News at a Glance
Retail Insider is streamlining its Canadian retail news from around the web to include a handful of top news stories that can be viewed quickly during the day. This will include important national content as well as very selected local content deemed important. If you have any questions, contact craig@retail-insider.com.
Here are the latest top new stories.
- Two trucking companies serving Vancouver port threaten to strike Friday (Global)
- Co-op acquires Western Canadian Husky retail fuel sites in $264M deal (Global)
- Health, wellness firms moving into street-front retail sites (RENX)
- Canada’s ban on single-use plastic items delayed until 2022 (CTV)
- Tim Hortons facing ‘hiring crisis,’ interviews, leaked emails show (BNN)
- Justin Bieber’s Timbiebs Timbits have launched at Tim Hortons — and the Internet is very into them (Financial Post)
- David Aisenstat to step down as The Keg’s CEO and retire as vice-chair of Recipe Unlimited Corp.’s board of directors (Toronto Star)
- Pattison Food Group stands up for the little guy in the grocery business (Strategy)
- After brief contraction, Canada’s economy grew again in third quarter (CBC)
- Longo’s corporate culture named ‘best-in-class’ (Grocery Business)
- Ontario’s first Italian meal delivery service launches (Grocery Business)
