Top Stories: National
- Online sales push Indigo revenues to $238.8 million in Q2, above pre-pandemic levels (Canadian Press)
- Freshii plans to double restaurants in Canada as revenue climbs and sales recover (BNN)
- How Indigo is improving its equity pledge by looking past the shelf (Strategy)
- Business insolvencies fall to lowest recorded since 1987, highlighting unusual effect of COVID (Globe & Mail, subscribers)
- Blender Bites To Double Store Count at Leading Club Store Chain in Eastern Canada (marketscreener.com)
- Goodfood Evolves as Canada’s Modern Online Grocer with Free One-Hour Delivery (Yahoo press release)
- The Alkaline Water Company enters the Canadian market (foodincanada.com)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Andrea’s Cookies to open first storefront in Toronto next year (Dished)
- Costco gas station – and possibly lower prices — coming to Sudbury (CTV)
- ‘Like something you’d see in Europe, Toronto’: Orangeville Sobeys celebrates grand reopening, renovations (Orangeville.com)
- Ottawa couple fined $4,500 for refusing to wear masks at Quebec coffee shop (CTV)
- Toronto’s Best Bakeries (Toronto Life)
- City Council approves new 15 per cent small business property tax reduction (Toronto.com)
Western Canada News
- Amid chronic staff shortage, many Yukon businesses struggle to stay open (CBC)
- Man rearrested for stealing cosmetics days after allegedly taking 47 pairs of yoga pants from Vancouver store (CTV)
- Nearly 60 West End businesses shuttered during pandemic: report (CTV Winnipeg)
- Maple Ridge council wants to limit downtown pharmacies (Maple Ridge News)
- RCC advocating for easing of restrictions in next Saskatchewan Health Order (Retailcouncil.org)
