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.
- Businesses still need help from Ontario as pandemic’s economic after-effects linger (Toronto Star)
- Couche-Tard Backs Grocery Delivery Service Food Rocket (CSP)
- Retail stays strong as spending shifts back to services (BIV)
- Support for sustainable packaging is growing (Strategy)
- Ikea to sell off part of Pinecrest Shopping Centre in bid to streamline assets (Ottawa Business Journal)
- Downtown Vancouver foot traffic still far behind pre-pandemic levels: report (Global)
- Dramatic video shows ‘takeover-style’ robbery at Gucci store in downtown Vancouver (CTV)
- Italpasta is extending its pasta love affair into stores (Strategy)
- Thousands of Toronto area cleaners could be heading to a strike; vote Saturday (Grocery Business)
- Urban Barn store opening in Windsor (CTV)
- Calgary Co-op, tackling food waste and insecurity at the same time (Grocery Business)
- McDonald’s partners with Toronto-based retailer Peace Collective on new fashion line (Style Democracy)
