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 three days.
- Someone other than a Simons readies to lead Canada’s oldest private firm through pandemic’s aftermath: Interview with Peter Simons (Financial Post)
- Posthaste: Canadians want to use grocery store coupons, but they’re often too restrictive (Financial Post)
- Canada’s grocers remove Russian products from store shelves (Globe & Mail)
- Loblaw commits to achieving net-zero status by 2040 (Canadian Grocer)
- Pet Valu Recognized in Benchmark for Best-in-Class Executive Gender Diversity (Newswire)
- ‘He’s got it all in one’: Legendary sports store in northern B.C. closes after 50 years (CBC)
- Lowe’s gets funny about its product assortment (Strategy)
- Is the shopping mall already dead? How surprising new plans for centres ranging from Yorkdale to Square One will redefine the mall as we know it (Toronto Star)
- Controversial Vegandale brand closes Parkdale shops due to COVID-19 (Toronto Star)
- Ontario pharmacies testing virtual health care kiosks (Retail Customer Experience)
- Edmonton eyes grants for struggling businesses near major construction like LRT extensions (Edmonton Journal)
- Started amid pandemic, Tamil grocery store expands to second city spot (London Free Press)
- Doors open on Asian health food grocer, Sungiven Foods, on Langley Bypass (Aldergrover Star)
