Top Stories: National
- Warehouses fill up as B.C. floods stop flow of goods (Financial Post)
- Depth of Black Friday discounts depends on resiliency of retailers’ supply chains (CTV)
- Black Friday bargain hunters, prepare to be disappointed (BNN)
- Alimentation Couche-Tard CEO optimistic worst of labour shortages is behind it (CTV)
- George Weston profit down from a year ago after sale of Weston Foods business (Grocery Business)
- Why Lush Cosmetics is exiting the ‘dark and dangerous alleyway’ of social media (CBC)
- Walmart pulls children’s toy sold in Canada that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine (CTV)
- Chapman’s Ice Cream faces backlash and boycott over vaccination policy (CBC)
- Rail chaos due to B.C. flooding will delay product shipments across Canada by weeks — even months (TorStar subscribers) ****
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Organic Garage updates logo amidst ambitious expansion plans (Grocery Business)
- Shoppers Drug Mart’s $250,000 commitment to Shediac, N.B. women’s centre (Grocery Business)
- Black Friday grand opening in Brampton for major sporting goods store Decathlon (insauga.com)
- After watching plastic pile up, this Windsor woman creates eco-friendly shop (CBC)
- Cape Breton pizza shop owners put competition aside to offer help after fire (CTV)
Western Canada News
- ‘Many unfortunately were pushed over the edge’: Pandemic leads to exodus of downtown retail tenants in Vancouver (Global)
- B.C. shoppers expected to flock to malls for Black Friday (BIV)
- Trains roll into Vancouver after CP Rail restores limited service following mudslides (BNN)
- Unifor strike vote could signal further supply chains disruptions for B.C. retailers (Grocery Business)
- Calgary Co-op’s new store in Sage Hill (Canadian Grocer)
- Blaine prepares to welcome Canadians with open arms (thenorthernlights.com)
