Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For July 18th, 2023

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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.

Dupes offer cheap fashion to Canadians, but small businesses say they’re paying the price (CBC)

Loblaw pilots in-store program to help hard of hearing (Grocery Business)

Vancouver’s KITS Eyecare’s sales rise, stock jumps (Record)

Canadian Tire Bank expands relationship with Temenos, moves to Temenos Banking Cloud (Retail Banker International)

Style Q&A: The Body Shop expands its footprint in Canada (Vancouver Sun)

TransLink expands retail operations at transit hubs (Western Investor)

Unclear why suspicious packages repeatedly shipped to Toronto store: police (Global)

American automaker Rivian set to open first Canadian showroom in Burnaby (Burnaby Now)

Ottawa mall, site of Canada’s largest Canadian Tire, is for sale (Real Estate News EXchange)

Ontario woman shocked when $600 Walmart gift cards are worthless (CTV)

Scammers fool dozens of job seekers using popular London, Ont., antique shop as cover (CBC)

Ex-owner of Whitehorse butcher shop on the hook for $17K+ in THC-tainted jerky case (CBC) ****

Catching Up on Promenade Mall Revitalization Phase 1 Work (Urban Toronto)

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