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 closures loom amid labour, product shortages (CTV)
- Firebelly is ‘a different feel, a different product,’ DavidsTea co-founder says (Montreal Gazette)
- Canadian small-business owners struggle to make cryptocurrencies part of daily commerce (Globe & Mail subscribers)
- Sleep Country partners with Loblaw Marketplace (Newswire)
- Canadians’ curb appetite for meat: Report (Canadian Grocer)
- The lure of single-tenant retail properties (Globe & Mail)
- Requiring vaccine passports to shop at big-box stores hurts those on Quebec’s margins, critics warn (CBC)
- Iconic pen-maker Bic to acquire Toronto temporary tattoo startup Inkbox for US$65 million (Financial Post)
- Are private liquor stores here? New bottle shops focus on hard-to-find wines and beers — plus mandatory snacks (The Star)
- Peloton is hiking prices because of inflation (CTV)
- Alta. restaurant ordered to close for accepting dog pictures instead of proof of vaccination (CTV)
- Restaurant company MTY Food Group raising quarterly dividend to 21 cents per share (BNN)
- P.E.I. closes dining rooms, gyms among other new COVID-19 restrictions (CBC)
- Sudbury grocer abandons alcohol sales and industry association says it won’t be the last (CBC)
- PC Optimum™ redemption now available at Esso stations (Newswire)
