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.
- Hudson’s Bay considering a bid for U.S. department store Kohl’s: report (Financial Post)
- From bakery to ‘tech behemoth’: How Loblaw became a titan of the private health-care industry (TorStar, subscribers)
- Couche-Tard is seeing strong growth in fresh food (Strategy)
- Annual inflation rate hit 5.7 per cent in February amid broad-based price increases: StatCan (CTV)
- The shopper trends that will shape the rest of the year (Strategy)
- The masks are coming off, but grocers remain on guard (Canadian Grocer)
- Couche-Tard says consumers better positioned to absorb fuel prices than ‘08 recession (TorStar)
- PlantX launches same-day grocery delivery, Ottawa and Toronto (Grocery Business)
- Rumours swirl in Winnipeg on future of Hudson’s Bay site (Western Investor)
- Justin Trudeau’s personal chef opening new spot at Montreal’s Time Out Market (Dished)
- Birks departure from Victoria marks shift of downtown makeup: business association (Victoria News)
