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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For March 7, 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.

Why provinces are using booze to fight back in Trump’s trade war (Global)

Major retailers in Nova Scotia agree to display signage identifying local products (The Canadian Press)

Brand loyalty is down, value up among Canadian grocery shoppers: Survey (Grocery Business)

Financial struggles at Vancouver’s MEC? Suppliers sue over unpaid bills (VIA)

WARMINGTON: At LCBO stores, it’s as if the U.S. doesn’t exist (Toronto Sun)

Ottawa, provinces agree to open the tab on Canadian booze (CBC)

Vancouver Police Department hosts forum on retail crime (CityNews)

Hobbyists and small-scale farmers will be hit hardest by Peavey Mart closures, Ottawa Valley farmer predicts (Inside Ottawa Valley)

Why Canadian grocery shoppers have been seeing discounts, despite tariffs (Globe & Mail)

CEO of fuel retailer and refiner Parkland says tariff impact ‘neutral’ on business (CityNews)

Ottawa shoppers eager to buy Canadian groceries amid U.S. trade war (CBC)

Surrey duty-free shop caught in the crossfire of U.S.-Canada trade war (CBC)

Manitoba NDP wants to ban convenience store liquor sales (CTV)

Saskatchewan liquor stores selling leftover U.S. booze as government halts purchase (Postmedia)

Liquor merchants decry what they call unprecedented AGLC wine price hike (Calgary Herald)

Toronto’s first suburban shopping plaza to be torn down after over 70 years (BlogTO)

Another Vancouver Safeway site to be redeveloped (Construct Connect)

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