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.
- Grocery store workers call refusal to reinstate pandemic pay ‘insulting’ (CTV)
- Grocery, gasoline prices top inflationary stressors for Canadians: Reports (Grocery Business) ****
- Furniture prices soar due to supply chain issues, increased cost of materials (CBC)
- Canada’s retail vacancy to be ‘stable’ through 2024: Colliers (Renx)
- Canadian jeweller Mejuri slapped with copyright infringement suit by David Yurman (Jewellery Business)
- How inflation is impacting consumer shopping habits in Canada (Strategy) ****
- Staff absenteeism a challenge for businesses, but preferable to total lockdown: Retail Council of Canada (CTV)
- Retail workers face jumble of corporate sick-pay policies amid Omicron surge (Globe & Mail, subscribers)
- Quebec retailers see ‘a lot of ambiguities’ in new vaccine passport rule (Montreal Gazette)
- Quebec big-box stores to require vaccine passports for entry, owners fear loss in revenue (CTV)
- Quebec minimum wage to rise from $13.50 to $14.25 on May 1 (CTV)
- Famous restaurant brand P.F. Chang’s to open first Alberta location (Dished)
- Data show COVID-19 pandemic’s mixed impact on Vancouver businesses (Globe & Mail/subscribers)
