The latest Retail Insider articles are listed below, followed by Canadian Retail News From Around the Web. Highlights include a deep dive into luxury marketing strategies that stress storytelling and aspiration over pricing, robust Canadian retail sales growth in January, and the rapid expansion of grocery stores in downtown urban centres to meet rising demand. Together, these stories reflect shifting consumer priorities and retail formats responding to evolving urban demographics and economic conditions.
🗞️ The Day’s Retail Insider Article List
- OLEN launches debut collection of minimalist Italian leather sneakers – Mario Toneguzzi
- From The Desk: Canadian Retail’s Urban Expansion and Inflation Pressures Shape 2026 Outlook – Retail Insider
- The Art of Desire in Luxury Marketing – Craig Patterson
- Retail sales on the rise: Statistics Canada – Mario Toneguzzi
- Winnipeg-based Activate Games accelerating international growth – Mario Toneguzzi
- Freed & Freed Expands Distribution for Canadian Outerwear – Craig Patterson
- Downtown Grocery Growth Accelerates in Canada – Craig Patterson
🌐 Canadian Retail News From Around the Web
- Mainstreaming Asian Beauty: How Sukoshi Built a Specialist Retail Ecosystem (Beauty Matter)
- How Vancouver’s Neighbour became Canada’s leading menswear retailer (Globe & Mail / subscriber paywall)
- VIDEO: As retail theft soars, some businesses are eyeing drastic measures (Orillia Matters)
- Saint John retailers say they’re experiencing more crime, but statistics show decline (CBC)
- Concern over future of downtown Hudson’s Bay building drives sold-out meeting (Calgary Herald)
- Japanese retailer MUJI opening Tsawwassen store Saturday (North Delta Reporter)
- Pokémon card thefts in B.C. leave small business owners shaken (CTV)
- Toronto says goodbye to the iconic ‘Steve’s Music Store’ after nearly 50 years of business (CBC)
- VR arcade to move into former Steve’s Music Store on Rideau St. (CTV Ottawa)
- How thrifting went from a trend to a lifestyle for Toronto shoppers (BlogTO)
- Oshawa variety store employees accused of trafficking drugs (Toronto Sun)
- Olive Garden opening at Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre (InSauga)
- Ottawa framing store closes after 48 years of business (CTV Ottawa)
- Where’s the beef? Police tackle alarming increase in meat thefts (Vancouver Sun)
- He opened his shop in 1964. Now, Riverside’s George the barber is retiring after six decades on Queen Street East (Toronto Star)
