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.
- Rogers network outage across Canada hit banks, businesses and consumers (CNBC, likely not news to anyone given the immense chaos)
- Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests (Toronto Star)
- A lot of Canadians like interactive screens in grocery stores (Strategy)
- Most Canadians feel local foods are important. But why? (Canadian Grocer)
- Knix leakproof apparel maker sells majority stake to Swedish company (CTV)
- Trinh Tham, former CMO of Harry Rosen, joins Universal Music Canada to lead digital efforts (Strategy)
- The Faceoff: Which convenience store chain comes out on top — Japan’s 7-Eleven or Canada’s Couche-Tard? (The Record)
- Nordstrom anniversary sale in Canada starts July 15 (newswire)
- B.C. Superstore workers accept contract offer from Loblaw (Vancouver Sun)
- Filipino business owners dream big with new one-stop shop in Winnipeg (CBC)
- Save-On-Foods holds grand opening of Colwood, B.C. store (Grocery Business)
- BC to now allow private cannabis retailers to deliver through common carriers such as Canada Post and delivery-service providers (StratCann)
