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.
- Metro uses profit margins to absorb food inflation, resists calls for higher wages (Financial Post)
- Worker absenteeism – not trucker vaccine mandates – impacting store shelves: Metro (BNN)
- Walmart boycott calls mount in Canada on Quebec vaccine rule (BNN)
- Politicizing vax mandates will only hurt consumers and retailers, say experts (BNN)
- Customers are reporting bare shelves and product shortages at grocery stores but retailers say there is no food shortage, yet (thestar.com)
- Is the grocery shortage caused by the truck convoy? 5 myths debunked (thestar.com)
- Quebec announces plan to reopen restaurants, cinemas in coming weeks (CBC)
- David Segal takes another swing at tea (Strategy) ****
- Longo’s rated #1 grocery store: Leger WOW Survey (Grocery Business)
- Expand vaccine passport to LCBOs and cannabis stores, Ontario opposition parties say (Global)
- Heritage status will ‘keep the soul of Chinatown’: Plante (Montreal Gazette)
