Yesterday it was announced that the flagship Chapters bookstore at Toronto's Festival Hall will close, and over the weekend Toronto's 'World's Biggest Bookstore' closed for good. The following is a discussion of how technology has affected bricks-and-mortar book retailing in Canada...
A Zellers store will re-open in suburban Ottawa on April 3rd. It will be one of only three Zellers stores in existence, joining locations in suburban Toronto and Vancouver...
Lululemon's website is selling $1,200 spray-on yoga pants, just in time for April 1st. The company did so in response to a late-night comedy joke. Click the image above for more, including two videos - one from Jimmy Kimmel, and another from last year's April 1st joke, 'Lululeather'...
April is almost here, and if you're stuck indoors waiting out the seasonal showers (or snow, depending on where you are in Canada), you'll have an excuse to spend more time shopping for the best deals online. To help guide you towards savvy purchases, we dug through the DealNews archives from years past to see what goods are, well, good to buy in April, and what you should hold off on purchasing...
Sources tell us that French luxury group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) is looking to buy Canadian real estate to open stores. The company is looking to own retail space as rents continue to skyrocket on some of the world's most expensive luxury retail streets...
The Max Mara store at Vancouver's Pacific Centre will double in size. It will do so by annexing an adjacent retail space formerly occupied by a watch retailer...
Montreal-based dollar store retailer Dollarama plans to open about 400 more Canadian stores, including about 150 new locations within the next two years...
Saturday marks the grand opening of the 2,300 square foot DKNY store at West Edmonton Mall It's Canada's 4th DKNY store and it's located on the mall's second level between Lacoste and Coach...
In a first for the company, Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) will open a 850 square foot shop-in-store at the newly renovated and expanded University of British Columbia (UBC) Bookstore in Vancouver. The MEC Outpost opens tomorrow. The shop will feature more than 100 popular MEC-brand products...
Upscale Belgian fashion label Sarah Pacini is set to expand across Canada. The company confirms that it will open store locations in suburban Toronto and Montreal. A Vancouver location is also being negotiated and according to a source, stores in other Canadian cities could follow...
