Welcome to the Daily Synopsis by Retail Insider. We hope you enjoy the 8 articles we published covering key developments in Canadian retail.
🗞️ The Day’s Retail Insider Article List
- Canada announces $27.6B in counter-tariffs on U.S. goods as retailers, restaurants and small businesses weigh impact – Mario Toneguzzi
- Toronto’s Woodbine Mall and Fantasy Fair getting a roller rink this fall – Mario Toneguzzi
- Evening Coffee Orders Nearly Triple in Canada as Restaurants Tap New Beverage Trend: Lavazza – Mario Toneguzzi
- Canadian SMEs remain optimistic but take more cautious approach to hiring and AI investment: Employment Hero – Mario Toneguzzi
- Back-to-School lunch basket falls 2.8%, but relief may be temporary: report – Mario Toneguzzi
- Maureen Simon Foods launches Rolliis in 7-Eleven stores across Canada – Mario Toneguzzi
- Toronto Waterfront Looks to Events and Activation as District Builds Toward 2035 – Craig Patterson
- Most Canadian small businesses unaware of new open banking law: Xero survey – Mario Toneguzzi
🌐 Canadian Retail News From Around the Web
- Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash (CBC)
- U.S.-Canada cosmetic tariffs threaten the $10 beauty impulse buy (Financial Post)
- Criterion to establish brick-and-mortar home in Canada at Cinema Cellar (The Canadian Press)
- Get ready for the back-to-school rush (CCentral)
- Reitmans Stock: Canada’s Last Standing Fashion Retailer Slips (Kalkine.ca)
- Competition Bureau seeks to smash Green Giant deal (Canadian Cattlemen)
- Montreal clothing store braces for Canada-U.S. trade war (CTV)
- Best Buy ordered to pay over $60,000 after firing injured employee (Canadian HR Reporter)
- Toronto brand Body of Work is rethinking contemporary sportswear (Globe & Mail)
- Edmonton-made Shop Canadian app seeing surge in patriotic interest amid trade war (CTV)
- People in Yukon respond to U.S. trade war by buying Canadian (CBC)
- Kemptville, Ont. grocer seen selling American wine despite U.S. liquor ban (CTV)
- What Canada’s counter-tariffs mean for Vancouver shoppers (Vancouver Sun)
- Empire’s newly acquired Quebec discount banner Mayrand breaks ground on new Trois-Rivières store (Grocery Business)
- Sabrina Carpenter Celebrates the First Anniversary of ‘Man’s Best Friend’ With Toronto Pop-Up (Billboard)
- Freshslice CEO ordered to pay $85K for anti-Muslim, anti-Iranian comments (Business in Vancouver)
- Pattison Food Group ‘profoundly disappointed’ by arson sentencing (Canadian Grocer)
