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Creativity, not panic, best reaction to U.S. retail
expansion into Canada, report says
"This is not just about the big
American Godzilla coming in and deciding what our fate
is." We’re choosing that ourselves — Canadian
developers, Canadian property owners, Canadian consumers
— by where we are spending the money. The cautionary
tale is really for American retailers to understand
that. It’s not like dealing with another state.” Editors
note: This is a great article to truly get the feel for
how Canada is being impacted by this American Push.
(Source
vancouversun.com)
Canada's book store retailer Indigo Books reports $8.2M
loss with same store sales down 4.6%
Looks like the book store industry everywhere is
being impacted. (Source
cbc.ca)
Target's opening of 48 stores isn't going smoothly and
customers are complaining
While many shoppers have embraced Target in
cities such as Vancouver and Toronto, others have
encountered bare shelves or grumbled about prices that
weren’t as low as they had expected. The volume of
shoppers has been promising, but Target executives
acknowledge that they underestimated the initial demand,
particularly with three stores in the Toronto area. "That
has been the biggest challenge so far,” said John
Morioka, Target Canada’s senior vice resident of
merchandising. “There has been no accurate history to
plan for our sales.” "Given the size and excitement
surrounding this launch, it’s not fair to expect Target
to have everything run like clockwork,” said Amy Koo, an
analyst with Kantar retail consulting firm in Boston.
The company with deep Minnesota roots is opening stores
at incredible speed — 124 are expected to open across
Canada within the first year. (Source
startribune.com)
At the beginning of this month, the
WorkSafeBC's Board of Directors approved three new OHS
policies to help prevent workplace bullying and harassment.
The new policies dictate and clarify the general duties of
employers, workers, and supervisors regarding, preventing,
where possible, workplace harassment and bullying, or
otherwise minimizing it. The responsibilities of employer,
employee and supervisors can be found in further detail
here. (Source
safetyservicescompany.com)
Tips
lead Toronto Police to $14,000 rug thief.
The
couple who asked to borrow the $14,000 rug for a three day
photo shoot never returned to Weavers Art Studio, and left a
fake credit card number behind as a security deposit. For
two weeks Police attempted to track down the thieves,
following-up on a number of tips called into the police. On
Wednesday an arrest was made and the $14,000 rug was
recovered. (Source
thestar.com)
Vancouver Police use non-lethal Bean Bag round to take down
shoplifter with a knife. The shoplifter pulled a
knife on Price Smart Foods Loss Prevention agent as he was
attempting to flee the store. Police tracked down the
suspect, who was still carrying the knife, yelling at Police
to shoot him. The suspect again led police on a foot chase
for two blocks, still refusing to drop the knife. Police shot
the suspect one time with a bean bag round subduing the
suspect. (Source
vancouversun.com) |
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