Our most recent Retail Insider articles are listed below, followed by Canadian Retail News From Around the Web. Highlights include L’OCA Quality Market’s decision to close its Edmonton-area stores after under two years due to significant monthly losses, the ongoing impact one year after Hudson’s Bay’s creditor protection filing reshaping department store viability, and the intensified language compliance pressures Quebec retailers face following Bill 96.
🗞️ The Day’s Retail Insider Article List
- L’OCA Quality Market to Close Edmonton-Area Stores – Craig Patterson
- Block House opening as Gastown’s only hotel – Mario Toneguzzi
- Nearly 1 in 3 Canadians snack at night, far above global average: IKEA – Mario Toneguzzi
- From The Desk: Navigating Retail Evolution Through Expansion, Tech, and Consumer Shifts – Craig Patterson
- Hudson’s Bay Collapse: One Year After the CCAA Filing – Craig Patterson
- Casavogue Celebrates 54 Years with Anniversary Savings – Retail Insider
- VIDEO: Iran conflict’s impact on retailers and consumers – Mario Toneguzzi
- MR MIKES SteakhouseCasual Surpasses 50 Locations in Canada – Lee Rivett
- Tim Hortons partners with Canadian Paralympic Team – Mario Toneguzzi
- Yamazaki Home launches in Canada – Mario Toneguzzi
- Sundays Opens Terminal HQ Showroom in Vancouver – Craig Patterson
- Automotive Properties REIT reports 2025 Q4 and year-end results – Mario Toneguzzi
- COBS Bread ‘Doughnation Day’ returns for 6th year with goal of raising $500,000 for local charities – Mario Toneguzzi
- Quebec Retailers Face Rising Language Compliance Pressure – Craig Patterson
- Happy Pops Launches Barbie Career Ice Pop Collection – Craig Patterson
- Dixie Outlet Mall in Mississauga Placed into Receivership – Craig Patterson
🌐 Canadian Retail News From Around the Web
- A year after HBC’s collapse, some reimagined spaces — and a lot of vacant stores (The Canadian Press)
- This North Bay-built app compares grocery prices across stores to help Canadians save (CBC)
- Inside Japanese grocer Aburi’s third grocery concept store: PHOTOS (Grocery Business)
- Teens across Toronto are buying illicit nicotine pouches. Now convenience stores want to sell them legally – should we let them? (The Star)
- Undercover language inspectors to be deployed in Quebec (Global)
- Quebec tests later weekend shopping hours with new pilot project (CTV)
- BC’s Largest Candy Store Is Taking Over a Former Yaletown Juice Shop (Noms Magazine)
- 28 per cent rise in thefts in Ottawa this year (CityNews)
