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Combating Counterfeit Products Act will give Border
Services Agency and RCMP new enforcement tools
The recently introduced Combating Counterfeit
Products Act will give the Canada Border Services Agency
(CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) new
enforcement tools to better protect Canadians and
Canadian businesses against commercial-scale
counterfeiting and piracy activities, both at the border
and domestically. Changes to the Act will also prohibit
the sale, distribution, possession, importing and
exporting of counterfeit goods for the purpose of trade,
which will enable the RCMP to seize counterfeit goods.
These activities will be subject to fines and penalties.
(Source
yahoo.com)
Canada has a "real and acute labor shortage in certain
sectors and regions" in the low-skill service and
retail jobs And the retail sector is
hardest hit. In Alberta they even started a program last
April that allows approved companies to hire temporary
foreign workers at 15% less than Canadian residents in
order to staff the positions. However, this is a
regulated and controlled program, and some are saying
is being abused. (Source
canadiangrocer.com)
Canada feeling third wave of retail invasion
Six new international brands will be opening in Canada
this fall as part of an ongoing expansion at one of
North America's most productive malls. Yorkdale Shopping
Centre, a Toronto mall prized by incoming international
retailers for its industry-high sales per square
footage, is adding six additional new-to-Canada brands
in 2013, including jeweller David Yurman, Zara Home, and
fashion boutiques All Saints, John Varvatos, Mulberry
and White House Black Market. The expansion furthers a
third wave of U.S. and international retailers that
began taking to this market in earnest two years ago in
the wake of Target's announcement it would open stores
in Toronto, a wave bolstered by a Canadian retail
economy that has outperformed the U.S. since the
recession. (Source
theprovince.ca)
Canada's biggest Department store Hudson's Bay is doing
the same thing everyone in the States is doing -
stores-within-stores
With a new branding effort and logo, Hudson’s Bay Co. is
pushing ahead with its reinvention and ambitious
merchandising plans just as competition heats up in
Canadian retailing. Richard Baker, the U.S. real estate
mogul and HBC’s chief executive officer, is spearheading
a raft of initiatives to shore up the retailer’s
position as the country’s top seller of women’s shoes
while introducing five more British-based cheap-chic
Topshop store-within-stores. They own Lord & Taylor as
well. (Source
theglobeandmail.com)
There are plenty of reasons for Canada-U.S. price gap -
Best article published about the Price Gap!
From tariffs, smaller population density, lack of
competition, higher minimum wages, lack of technological
investments, lower productivity, higher transportation
costs, more complex packaging requirements, this is the
article you want to read to learn the real reasons for
the huge price discrepancies between the States and
Canada. (Source
vancouversun.com)
The dollar store industry in Canada is booming too!
Dollarama posting "record results" in 4Q
With same store sales up 4.6% for
the 4Q and sales up 19.9%. Dollarama now has 785
locations across the country and had a same store sales
growth for the 52 week period of 6.5%.
(Source
canadiangrocer.com)
RCMP raid an East Hamilton Flea Market: seized $100,000
of counterfeit merchandise.
Two men were arrested and three
other vendors were shut down following a raid conducted
by the RCMP in East Hamilton. Confiscated items included
fake sunglasses, jewelry, jeans, purses and DVDs.
(Source
cbc.ca)
RCMP seeing a dramatic rise in Shoplifting cases;
Merchants taking additional steps to combat the common
crime. Additional
Associate training and strategies are being developed by
area merchants to catch and prosecute shoplifters. Wider
aisles and increased staff walking and talking to
customers was the solution for one Pharmacy store. Other
retailers are facing additional loss prevention
increased costs and adding additional surveillance
equipment. Whatever the solution is, more merchants are
making every associate aware of the cost shoplifting has
on their business.
(Source
carlyeobserver.com)
Halifax man busted for 56 fraud-related charges
involving gift cards
An investigation into an alleged credit card scam led
police to Curtis Jay Fountain, 19, who was initially
arrested on March 24 and charged with three counts of
fraud. Police continued their investigation into the
scam, which led them to allege that Fountain was
connected to 10 other fraud-related cases where stolen
credit cards were used to buy gift cards. This led to 53
additional fraud charges. The alleged scheme involved a
person buying gift cards. When the person presented a
credit card to pay for them, the cashier was told it was
maxed out and given an authorization code that enabled
the transaction to be completed.
(Source thechronicleherald.ca)
 ORC gang of
five busted stealing thousands, operating across
Canada Four people face a slew of charges and a fifth is sought
in connection with an alleged retail theft ring
suspected of stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth
of goods from businesses in the Toronto area and across
the country. It is alleged that the people operated in
groups of two to four, targeting display cases at a
variety of retail outlets including electronics and
jewelry stores," Det. Colleen Northmore said Thursday.
"One person would distract store employees while the
remaining people opened locked display cases with a key
to remove items." The accused are believed to be behind
nine thefts in Toronto and have links to similar thefts
in York, Peel, and Halton regions, as well as Hamilton,
Ottawa, Alberta and B.C. (Source
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