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.
- Loblaw expanding Shoppers business with $845M purchase of Lifemark Health Group (Global)
- New Retail Market Annual report shows produce sales grew in 2021 (Grocery Business)
- Galen G. Weston sets out on a new vision for Loblaw, far from the bread wagon days of his family’s roots (Globe & Mail, subscribers)
- Canada added 337,000 jobs last month, twice what was expected (CBC)
- B.C. to raise minimum wage to $15.65 on June 1 (BIV)
- ‘This should be the jewel of Vancouver’: Gastown store’s windows broken 7 times in 3 months (Global)
- Councillors push to bring outdoor pop-up vendors to Calgary parks this summer (Calgary Herald)
- Save-On-Foods stores pledge hundreds of thousands to local hospital (Grocery Business)