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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For September 3, 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.

Potential for lower grocery prices on the horizon following removal of Canadian counter tariffs (CTV)

Can a non-corporate grocery chain work across Canada? (CBC)

Ssense lenders seek fast sale of struggling fashion retailer (Fashion Network)

Inspection agency finds ‘maple washing’ in some Canadian grocery stores | Hanomansing Tonight (CBC)

Impact of U.S. tariffs on Canada’s food and beverage sector (MNP)

Opening of new Zellers in Edmonton delayed (CTV)

Montreal’s luxury Royalmount mall one year in: Boom or bust? (Montreal Gazette)

Alimentation Couche-Tard earnings fall after pulling Seven & i Holdings bid (Globe & Mail)

Subway Canada measures “Canadian Classics” in centimetres (Campaign Canada)

New Japanese snack vending machines at three Metro Vancouver SkyTrain stations (VIA)

Canada Goose investors see tailwind as private-equity backer Bain Capital considers selling stake (Financial Post)

Grocery stores say it’s too costly and complex to take empties. How does the Beer Store do it? (Toronto Star)

Silhouettes, not sizes: Meet Daylilie, the Vancouver startup designing bras for athletic bodies (BC Business)

Federated Co-operatives announces sale of Blair’s Crop Solutions ag retail locations to local Co-ops (Grocery Business)

Getting to the bottom of the Crown Royal bottling plant closure as Doug Ford pours scorn on move (Financial Post)

Cape Breton jewelry store break-in foiled by smoke machine, caught on video (CTV)

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