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Rona gets Metro's COO - Great news for Rona
Rona, based in Boucherville, Quebec, said Tuesday Sawyer
is an “operations and distribution specialist” who will
lead a “transformational strategy" that Rona unveiled
last month. Rona's has some difficult years and with
fending off Lowe's offer last year, the Target invasion,
and losing their infamous CEO last year they've been
struggling. Obviously they're not interested in a Lowe's
sale now. (Source
supermarketnews.com)
Target's first three stores have been consistently
"slammed" with customers
"We thought that there would be an initial bump and what
I would say is that the bump has not leveled off to the
degree that we thought,” Morioka said during a media
tour of Target’s East York Town Centre location. “That
has probably been the most surprising part of it and we
haven’t been able to recover.” (Source
canadiangrocer.com)
Canadian Tire to roll-out 5,000 tablet devices for
customers to research products in store The
initiative will see the 91-year-old seller of hockey
sticks and garden hoses launch a digital content hub
this month on its website to integrate with the planned
rollout in May and June of 5,000 tablet devices to its
stores for customers to look up products and information
on site. (Source
financialpost.com)
Holt Renfrew, Canada's high-end department store, to
open their first "hr2" store - a new lower-priced 30,000
square foot banner at Montreal's Quartier Dix/30
mega-mall In anticipation of
Nordstrom's move into Canada next year, to be followed
by its lower-priced Nordstrom Rack, Holt Renfrew reacts
and jumps on the discount shopping bandwagon.
(Source
montrealgazette.com)
Sobeys grocery stores warehouse workers end 29-day
strike
Local reports said that after a meeting on March 11,
some 428 full- and part-time workers, who are members of
the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175,
accepted improvements to the contract that was
previously rejected. This spring, the grocery chain has
a deal to supply groceries to discount retailer Target,
which is opening stores in Canada come March.
(Source
canadiangrocer.com)
Five from Montreal charged with fraud hitting retailers
in Newfoundland including Shoppers Drugmart, Sobey's and
Lawton's Five checked
into a St. John's hotel on March 1 and later that day
police receceived a report of suspicious activity and
obtained a search warrant. They recovered more than 300
payment cards, including cards from a variety of local
retailers, as well as cards from popular credit card
companies. "This is organized crime. The five people
that were here, I guess they were an organization unto
themselves," said Const. Ken Duff.
(Source
cbc.ca)
Video of security guards accused of excessive force at
Chinook Center probed Calgary police are now investigating the circumstances
around a video posted March 16 on the internet that some
say show five security guards using excessive force on a
shopper. The situation escalated because a shopper was
sitting on an escalator for the ride down. He stood up
and got off the escalator, but was asked to leave the
mall. The Mall guards reacted. (Source
cbc.ca)
Police called to West Edmonton Mall; possible man with
gun at 2 am this morning.
Early reports by mall security Friday morning of a
possible man with a gun in the parking lot of the West
Edmonton Mall. Surveillance then captured the driver of
a vehicle attempting run down a group of pedestrians.
Two possible suspects have been arrested, police said
they need to sober up before they can be interviewed.
(Source
inews880.com)
Brazen thief steals a countertop spinner display from a
mall jeweler in British Columbia.
The video screen capture is perfectly clear of the
suspect in the theft of a jewelry spinning display from
the Ryan’s Jewelers in the Maple Ridge Mall. The missing
merchandise is valued between $3000 and $4000.
(Source
mapleridgenews.com)
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