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Despite signs that Canadian consumers may be losing patience with Canadian retailers’ slow progress at introducing online shopping venues, more than a few […]

“Hell hath no fury like a consumer with a late delivery,” could be the new mantra for today’s businesses.  After all, expectations for […]

U.S. businesses continue to enter the Canadian market at a brisk pace, with apparel retailers Express Inc., Ann Taylor, and Tory Burch opening stores in recent […]

While many are still figuring out the winners and losers of the fiscal cliff resolution, retailers are hoping consumers will shrug off some […]

When a U.S. retail giant opened its first Canadian stores in Fall 2012, questions were raised about the slow path the company took […]

Retailers that tailor their holiday logistics plan based upon the traditional “Black Friday” start to the shopping season may be in for a […]

When upscale department store chain Nordstrom Inc. announced in September that it would open four locations in Canada beginning in the fall of 2014, it […]

It used to be that customer returns were treated as the ugly duckling of retail management.  Returns were tolerated, because they had to […]

A growing sense of angst among Canadian consumers has resulted from an inexplicable rise in consumer goods prices, as compared with U.S. prices.  […]

While Canadian consumers may have been slow to embrace the Internet and online shopping, the trend has caught on with a vengeance, and […]

The U.S. dollar held strong competitive advantage over its Canadian counterpart for more than 30 years – with that it became standard among Canadian consumers […]