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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For January 8, 2025

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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.

Canada Post back to full service levels for domestic parcels (CHCH)

Alberta consumers can now purchase directly from B.C. wineries; local retailer calls it ‘a bad deal’ (Calgary Herald)

Costco rejects efforts to eliminate DEI initiatives (Canadian Grocer)

Psycho Bunny Names Alexei Popyrin Its First Brand Ambassador (MSN)

Shopify acquires Shop.ca domain from Emerge Commerce (BetaKit)

String of break-ins puts west-end Toronto shop owners on high alert (CBC)

Indigo store in northwest Calgary closing its doors this month (Daily Hive)

Chinatown Wonders opens shop-in-shop at Saan Saan Cafe (Georgia Straight)

Concord Pacific reveals 12-tower, 5,000-home plan for long-awaited development of northeast False Creek (CBC)

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