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.
- DoorDash teams up with Loblaw as ultrafast delivery rivalry with Instacart heats up (Financial Post)
- Grocery chain Sobeys focuses on price, value as food inflation reaches nearly 10% (CTV)
- Empire Company’s Michael Medline on earnings report: “Executing with excellence” (Grocery Business)
- Grocers worry about which plastics Ottawa will ban next — and say prices could go up (Toronto Sun)
- ‘A really big deal’: Shopify launches Twitter partnership, tap-to-pay offering (Sun)
- Air Miles Sees Sobeys, Safeway and Now Staples Fly Away from Loyalty Program (Iphone Canada)
- Air Miles hits turbulence after Sobeys and Safeway pull out of program (CBC)
- Milk prices set to rise another 2.5% as dairy farmers get OK for cost hike (CBC)
- Canada’s inflation rate now at 7.7% — its highest point since 1983 (CBC)
- Chipotle rolls out its Rewards program in Canada (Strategy)
- Rexall Care Network donates $70,000 to the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides (Grocery Business)
- Saskatchewan Leads Country in Retail Trade Growth (Newswire)
- Saskatoon grad clothing stores experiencing busy seasons (CTV)
