Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For August 12, 2024

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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 few days.

Canada Goose CEO isn’t worried about diluting the brand as it expands—but experts caution there are graveyards of companies that have tried (Yahoo/Fortune)

Costco Canada July comp sales up 10.2%, plans to roll out scanners to crackdown on membership sharing (Grocery Business)

Costco is clamping down on membership sharing with new scanners at store entrances (The Star)

Loblaw’s health care empire is growing. But can it earn the trust of Canadian patients? (Globe & Mail / paywall for subscribers)

Opinion: The rise of the store-within-a-store, a retail innovation to help save physical shopping (Globe & Mail / paywall for subscribers)

Is Costco keeping tabs on serial returners? Canadian retail expert has thoughts (Daily Hive)

This Montreal shop sells food at 3 prices depending on what you can afford (CBC)

Edmonton retail rental rates hold amid national rise, survey finds (Edmonton Journal)

‘It’s been very emotional’: Dakota Family Foods closes after 20 years (CTV Winnipeg)

Sudbury thrift store asks people to stop ‘donating’ trash after dump fees increase (CBC)

London Drugs at The Amazing Brentwood mall is moving to a new location (Daily Hive)

‘Just nerd it up’: Puzzle factory opens in Merrickville and is 100% Canadian (Inside Ottawa Valley)

Thrift store in Sidney, B.C., evacuated after ‘possible historical military explosive’ dropped off (CTV)

Toronto business owner claims Metrolinx ‘screwed all small businesses’ in neighbourhood (BlogTO)

Chis Selley: Ontario’s freakout over booze in 7-Elevens is pure classism (National Post)

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