Retail Insider is meeting with a Target Canada insider tomorrow to discuss Target's Canadian stores. We apologize for this brief, relatively uninformative article but our research this week is taking more time than we expected.
We'll be getting an update...
The Hudson's Bay Company will concentrate on five private-lable brands, while dumping 20 under-performing private-label brands. It wants to increase private label sales from a current 9% to 15% of sales by 2017. By next Fall, the only in-house...
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Sears Canada will concentrate on rural and mid-market communities for future growth. These markets provide less competition and, according to Sears Canada CEO Calvin McDonald, will allow Sears to grow like it did initially in its 1950's Canadian inception.
Granted,...
Costco in Downtown Vancouver, BC. Image: oztravelfiles.blogspot.com
On Monday we mentioned Target's imminent arrival in Canadian downtowns, including Vancouver and Toronto. Today we'll briefly examine the tendency towards big-box retailers moving into city centres.
Big Box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Michael's,...
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The green light has been given to start construction on a 650,000 square foot outlet mall in Niagara-on-the-Lake, just north of Niagara Falls, Ontario. It will be called 'The Outlet Collection at...
Target Canada is in the process of searching to obtain locations for several smaller-format 'City Target' stores in Canada. These will be located in city centres. We'll start revealing potential locations this week, and we'll give you...
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Various Canadian cities will be getting American-style outlet malls. One of our commercial real estate insiders informs us that RioCan development is in the process of securing outlet mall location space in Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto. Calloway REIT...
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The Hudson's Bay Trading Company will open at Vancouver International Airport's International Terminal. We previously reported on the same store's recent opening in Toronto's airport.
The Vancouver store will be 1040 square feet and will open March...
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A commercial real estate insider has just informed Retail Insider that Holt Renfrew's hr2 lower-priced/discount concept is considering a location at Vancouver's proposed McArthurGlen Outlets near Vancouver International Airport.
We have few details about the potential move and...
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La Maison Simons opened its West Edmonton Mall store on October 31st. The store was incomplete, as a northern section had yet to be completed. The North section is now open, and here are the pics.
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