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.
- Loblaw says it has unfairly become ‘the face of food inflation’ (CityNews) ********
- Loblaw tries explaining rising cost of food, but consumers may not be buying it (Globe & Mail / subscribers)
- Frito-Lay hikes prices again, as grocers warn more food price increases to come (Globe & Mail / subscribers)
- In Memoriam: Zina Longo and Teresa Longo (Grocery Business)
- Tim Hortons’ app users to get free beverage and baked good after Quebec Supreme Court approves class action settlement (Financial Post)
- Shopify loses third C-suite exec since September (Beta Kit)
- Opinion: Insist on a safe downtown; the stakes are high for Edmonton (Edmonton Journal)
- Video shows suspect driving car through Vaughan Mills mall in overnight break-in: police (Global)
- Grocery store opens near Lytton nearly 2 years after B.C. village was destroyed by fire (CBC)
- London’s downtown comeback leads the nation. Research credits an economy that’s ‘not very sexy’ (CBC)
- Canadian Tire backs out of Alberta site (Hardlines)
- Dream Ikea kitchen renos turn into yearlong nightmare for Gander family (CBC)
- B.C. Convenience Store Owners frustrated by the dangerous increase in contraband tobacco in the Okanagan region (Newswire)
