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.
- Canadian Tire opens its 100th year with a retrospective (Strategy)
- Sobeys Ontario warehouse workers negotiate big wage increases, says Unifor (BNN)
- Unvaccinated shoppers ‘must be accompanied at all times’ in big stores in Quebec (Miami Herald)
- Food prices are jumping – and it may get worse before it gets better (Globe & Mail/subscribers)
- B.C. brands brace for Beijing boost at 2022 Olympics (BIV)
- Record-high gas prices expected for Ontario, Quebec (CTV)
- “Customers seem to forget that we’re human beings”: A grocery store cashier on working during the current wave (Toronto Life)
- ‘There is a thrill’: Saskatoon second-hand store sees increase in sales (CTV)
- ‘Even 50 per cent, we will take it’: Ottawa restaurants prepare to reopen for indoor dining on Monday (CTV)
- He ran a neighbourhood hardware store for decades. Now, the nostalgia is bringing him back (CBC)
