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 week.
American Retailers Moving Into Canada Find Their Reception Can Be Frosty (Costar)
Canadian Tire profit hit by weather, fire and spending slowdown (Financial Post)
RioCan REIT saw strong Q1 retail occupancy levels, rent rates ticking up (BNN)
More than 50% of Canadians plan to spend more than $50 for Mother’s Day (CTV)
Attabotics sues Canadian Tire over warehouse fire (Betakit)
Hudson’s Bay cutting 250 corporate jobs amid efforts to ‘flatten’ company (Canadian Press)
Douglas Todd: The crumbling of Vancouver’s affluent Point Grey Village (Vancouver Sun)
Pointe-St-Charles institution Quebec Smoked Meat closing after 73 years (Montreal Gazette)
Scarborough’s Agincourt Mall Redevelopment Inches Closer to Reality (Storeys)
Portage Place project in downtown Winnipeg to include health-care expansion (Winnipeg Sun)
Food Basics opens 143rd Ontario store in Port Elgin (Grocery Business)
Neighbours oppose ‘eyesore’ Costco in planned Springbank shopping complex (Calgary Herald)
