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.

Zellers relaunches 12 stores across Canada today — and nostalgia is the door crasher (CBC)

Zellers is back. Can the nostalgic brand survive today’s retail landscape? (Global)

Retail marketing considerations for American brands breaking into the Canadian market (Marketing News Canada)

Empire Company Limited rolls out Scene+ loyalty program in Thrifty Foods (Newswire)

New changes as Travelers and Cross Border shoppers allowed to bring more retail grocery products from US to Canada (WAGM)

RioCan’s Kim Valliere discusses role on The Well, strides for women in the industry (Journal of Commerce)

Montreal’s single-use plastics bylaw coming into effect (CTV)

Food prices in the North are astronomical, despite subsidies (National Observer)

This family-owned grocery store has been serving the Linwood community for 165 years (CBC)

Food theft, food bank demand increasing with food inflation (BIV)