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 several days.
- Home Depot shared customer data with Meta without consent: Canada’s privacy czar (Global)
- Best Buy to lay off around 700 employees as sales dip after pandemic surge (Global)
- How supermarket freezers are heating the planet, and how they could change (CBC)
- B.C. distillery first in Canada to join prestigious Scotch Malt Whisky Society (CTV)
- As food costs soar and self-checkouts multiply, more people are stealing — and they’re not sorry (Toronto Star)
- Aritzia is having a moment in the U.S. — but can it live up to the hype? (CBC)
- Sport Chek pulls out of Edmonton City Centre as mall highlights ‘significant safety issues’ (CTV)
- Iconic downtown Montreal Archambault store to shut its doors this summer (CBC)
- Vancouver Island’s last video store plays on for new generations of cinephiles (Globe & Mail) ****
- Lucid Motors opens retail studio in Montreal (Drive Tesla Canada)
- Specialty stores in St. John’s have been hit by a rash of break-ins. The target? Expensive parkas (CBC)
- Vince’s Market shuts down its Upper Canada Mall store in Newmarket (York Region)
- The rise and long, depressing fall of Calgary’s Eau Claire Market (CBC)
- Halifax moving commercial tax burden to business parks (CBC)
- Canadian Tire moving to old Kelowna Costco site (Infotel)
- The Loop: Why do we care about West Edmonton Mall so much? (CBC)
