Sustainability has been an important topic in Canada for quite some time. PwC's 2019 Canadian insights survey looked at Canadian consumers' attitudes about sustainable shopping practices and found that with “food and non-food purchases, many consumers are willing to pay a…
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Building customer loyalty in Canada
Canadians love their loyalty programs. It's a relationship that started in 1958 with the introduction of Canadian Tire money and has grown into a country of almost 130 million rewards memberships - and average of four per person, or eight…
What’s happening in Canada’s grocery stores.
The pandemic has ushered in changes in many Canadian industry sectors - including food retail. The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship's recent report Shake-up in Aisle 21: Disruption, Change and Opportunity in Ontario's Grocery Sector examined what's happened in…
What’s in store for retail.
It's a good day to look at what's in store for retail (pun unintentional). COVID-19 has given the retail sector quite the drubbing, although it hasn't meted that out equally. The virus has been a gift to the grocery sector,…
A deeper look into the secondhand market.
The secondhand market is growing fast. According to a 2019 report from ThredUp, the resale market has grown 21 times faster than the retail apparel market over the past three years, and the secondhand market is expected to reach $51…
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