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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For August 19, 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.

Starbucks to give salaried employees 2% raise in Canada, U.S. (CTV)

‘No one is safe’: Sleep Country’s Vancouver co-founder documents fight against crack addiction in memoir (Vancouver Sun)

Readers line up around the block for grand opening of Vancouver’s first romance bookstore (CTV)

The Beer Store closing 12 more stores in Ontario, including 3 in the GTA (CP24)

FreshCo opens 51st store in western Canada (Grocery Business)

From The Well to Yorkdale: Here are the latest store openings and upcoming launches in Toronto (Toronto.com)

Vancouver pop-up highlights local creators ages 6-14 (Vancouver Sun)

Whole Foods Toronto stores are already seeing bonkers lineups for closing sales (BlogTO)

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