Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For May 16, 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.

Tariffs hitting shoppers in Canada and U.S., with some prices set to rise at Loblaw stores, Walmart (CBC)

Walmart Canada comp sales up 0.9% in Q1 FY26, down from last quarter’s 5.8% (Grocery Business)

A piece of Canadiana: Demand for the Bay’s striped merchandise surges (CTV)

Winnipeg company ‘will never forget’ history making Hudson’s Bay striped items (Canadian Press)

Aritzia opens two new stores in Metro Vancouver on the same day (Vancouver Sun)

Deachman: Immigrant entrepreneurs add flair to the ByWard Market (Ottawa Citizen)

Ontario to spend hundreds of millions to boost alcohol sector (CBC)

Man jailed for 222 ‘bogus returns’ at N.B. Staples after asking for house arrest to avoid deportation (National Post)

2 stores shot at on consecutive nights in Kensington Market: police (CBC Toronto)

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