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.
- Couche-Tard hikes dividend as profit rises on higher gas prices (Financial Post)
- Unionization push at Canadian Starbucks gaining steam but facing similar barriers to U.S. efforts (CBC)
- Montreal businessman Alvin Segal introduced the ‘engineered suit’ to Canada (Globe & Mail / subscribers Obituary)
- Canada’s major grocers have the ability to lay ‘greedflation’ charges to rest – but decline to do so (Globe & Mail opinion)
- November 26 is ‘Small Business Saturday’: CFIB (Grocery Business)
- Cross-border shoppers at a crossroads in B.C. (Business in Vancouver)
- Is Toronto rotting at the core? Downtown foot traffic still 46% lower than before pandemic, study finds (Toronto Star)
- Downtown businesses struggle with low traffic, hoping for boost from new projects (Calgary Herald)
- Rabba Fine Foods expands with newest Tim Hortons in Mississauga, Ont. (Grocery Business) ********
- Shoppers Drug Mart installing time-delayed narcotic safes in all Ontario pharmacies (Grocery Business)
- Shopping local versus big box on Black Friday in Winnipeg (Global)
- Retail Council of Canada Expecting Increased Holiday Sales in NL (VOCM)
- In Memoriam: Frank Lovsin, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Freson Bros., an Albertan independent food retail company (Grocery Business)
