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. Here are the top stories from the past 24 hours.
- Pot holes: Uneven distribution of cannabis stores a challenge for industry (CTV)
- DHL doubles robots as humans alone can’t handle holiday crunch (BNN)
- Post-COVID, Empire’s full-service banners have an edge: Medline (Canadian Grocer)
- Small businesses say they can’t find staff and offering higher wages isn’t helping (Financial Post)
- Manufacturers consider changes to just-in-time production model amid disruptions (thestar.com)
- Walmart debuts $20-million high-tech warehouse in Ontario (Grocery Business) ****
- Alcohol shortages expected ahead of holidays in Canada, authorities say (Global) ****
- George Weston Limited announces the closing of the sale of its Weston Foods fresh and frozen businesses (Grocery Business)
- ‘Slippery slope’: Alberta liquor store group worries more convenience stores will follow Edmonton 7-Eleven’s booze model (Edmonton Journal)
- Calgary cold-pressed juicery inks deal with Starbucks (Calgary Sun)
- Former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman and founder of Bad Boy Furniture dead at age 88 (CityNews)
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