Today’s Retail Insider articles are listed below, followed by Canadian Retail News From Around the Web. Coverage highlights Elm-Ledbury’s curated retail arcade concept enhancing Toronto’s residential spaces, the complete retail availability squeeze in Ossington and Leslieville, and Healthy Planet’s pivot toward micro meals and cleaner snacks. Also featured is Egg Club’s bold breakfast QSR expansion plan. These developments illustrate evolving urban retail strategies and shifting consumer preferences in food and convenience.
🗞️ The Day’s Retail Insider Article List
- From Chaos to Control: UPS Capital Report Highlights How Merchants Can Win the Last-Mile Battle – Retail Insider
- Payroll employment declines in retail trade: Statistics Canada – Mario Toneguzzi
- Foodservices and drinking places sales increase: Statistics Canada – Mario Toneguzzi
- Elm-Ledbury Retail Vision Takes Shape in Toronto – Craig Patterson
- VIDEO: Healthy Planet sees rise of micro meals and demand for cleaner, nutritious snack options – Mario Toneguzzi
- Egg Club founder targets rapid expansion after launching breakfast QSR concept – Mario Toneguzzi
- Ossington and Leslieville Hit Zero Retail Availability – Craig Patterson
- Shake Shack taps Toronto’s Pizzeria Badiali for Canadian chef collaboration – Mario Toneguzzi
- Consumer sector remains resilient but increasingly battle-worn: TD – Mario Toneguzzi
- New chapter for Windsor Station – Group Society and Laurier Capital acquire iconic Montréal landmark – Mario Toneguzzi
🌐 Canadian Retail News From Around the Web
- Canadian border stores call for ‘action’ and ‘fairness’ as US travel continues to fall (DFNI)
- Don’t buy back-alley beef: Why stolen meat is on the rise in Canada (CBC)
- Throwback Thursday: 25 years ago, major retailers were switching to ePost (Hardlines)
- ‘It’s a big, black hole’: Potential buyers explore options for former Hudson’s Bay flagship store in Vancouver (Vancouver Sun)
- Big grocers’ sales flatline in Metro Vancouver as local upstarts flourish (Business in Vancouver)
- B.C.’s biggest candy store reopens after major renovation (BC Business)
- What’s included in Manitoba’s grocery store tax cuts, and what shoppers are saying (CTV)
- Mirvish Village Streetscape Progresses as Markham Street Takes Shape (Urban Toronto)
- Vintage shop battling city bylaw keeps hosting parties and it’s the most Toronto story ever (Streets of Toronto)
- Councillor to table motion for city run grocery stores (CP24 Toronto)
- Former owner of Marv’s Soda Shop releases autobiography (Western Wheel)
