Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For October 1, 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 24 hours.

Is food the new fuel? Convenience stores look to become food destinations (Globe & Mail)

Opinion: What high grocery prices say about the dysfunction in Canada’s economy (Globe & Mail)

Port of Montreal Longshore Workers Strike Disrupts Trade for 72 Hours (Retail Insider)

Old downtown storefront gets new life along Dundas Place (London Free Press)

Indigenous store gives artists a ‘safe space’ to show their work with pride (CBC)

Maxi opens two new stores in Quebec (Grocery Business)

Bohemian new Kensington vintage shop features Vogue-approved heirloom quilt coats (Streets of Toronto)

Third-generation Vancouver tailor continues family legacy with The Sartorial Shop (Vancouver Sun)

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