Tag Archives: retail

Boxing Day will be looking a little bit different this year. Typically it’s a time when people flock to businesses, sometimes waiting in long lines, just to enter crowded stores with other like-...

NEW YORK - Americans held back on spending during the start of the holiday shopping season, a troubling sign for retailers and the state of the U.S. economy. U.S. retail sales fell a seasonally adjust...

MONTREAL - Quebec is shutting down most businesses and all primary and secondary schools until at least Jan. 11, as authorities try to get a handle on a second wave of COVID-19 that is forcing hospita...

STOCKHOLM - Swedish fashion retailer H&M says its sales fell 10% in the fourth quarter as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic stalled consumer spending, cutting short a promising recovery see...

WINNIPEG - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was behind bars in Winnipeg on Tuesday, after he was indicted in the United States on charges he used his influence in the industry to traffic women and ...

MONTREAL - The merchants association on Montreal's St-Laurent Boulevard says it has been the victim of a Christmas tree-stealing "Grinch." Tasha Morizio, the executive director of the association, sai...

PARIS - France's data privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined Google 100 millions euros ($121 million) and Amazon 35 million euros ($42 million) for breaching the country's rules on advertising co...

Swedish clothing retailer H&M has arrived in Saskatoon. The popular fashion retailer opened its new location in Midtown on Thursday. The store's opening was pushed back several months due to the C...

Black Friday shoppers appear to have heeded public health warnings, with more online purchases and little crowding at stores across the country against a backdrop of rising COVID-19 cases.  Many ...

LONDON - Cineworld, which last month closed its cinemas in the U.S. and the U.K., has secured more than $750 million of new financing that it hopes will see it through the coronavirus pandemic. In a s...