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 over the weekend.
- Liquor stores in Canada, including LCBO, pull Russian products from shelves (Financial Post)
- Grocery wars: How inflation is impacting options at the grocery store (CityNews)
- Loblaw working hard to keep sticker prices low: CFO (Canadian Grocer)
- Doug Putman has revived unloved brands like Toys‘R’Us and HMV with a plan to make retail fun again (Globe & Mail/Report on Business, paywall)
- B.C. retailers grapple with mixed bag of plastic regulations (BIV)
- Giant Tiger is proud to be the discount chain with heart (Globe & Mail)
- Google needs to clamp down on ‘bad review’ extortionists that are killing small businesses (TorStar)
- Organic Garage Ltd. gets a name change (Canadian Grocer)
- Tim Hortons ice cream coming to a store near you (Toronto Sun)
- One of Canada’s last movie rental stores starts GoFundMe to stay open (CTV)
- FreshCo Western Canada expansion continues: Fort McMurray, Alberta (Grocery Business)
- Filipino fast-food chain Jollibee opens first Vancouver restaurant (CBC)
- Tesla dealership and service centre coming to Langford, B.C. (CTV)