Tim Hortons announced that 2 fan-fav donuts are making a comeback, but only for a limited time!
If you want to get a taste of these iconic donuts, the Walnut Crunch will be available in Tims restaurants across Canada and at participating Quebec locations – and the Cherry Stick will be available in Tim Hortons restaurants across Quebec, and at participating locations in the rest of Canada.
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Toronto-based mattress-in-a-box brand Endy is seeing explosive sales growth in Canada as they continue to grow their operations. The company announced a significant investment in Calgary and the Western side of Canada, with a new distribution centre, and enriched customer experience.
Opening this summer in Langley, BC, Endy’s new fulfilment centre will serve customers living in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. This will help meet increasing customer demands and fuel the company’s immense growth.
“We are excited to announce the opening of our Western Canada distribution centre, which will enable us to deliver even faster on our promise of a better sleep for all Canadians,” said Mike Gettis, CEO, Endy. “This investment will ensure our customer experience is exceptional across the country, from first click to delivery, and marks a major milestone in our evolution from a startup to a truly national brand.”
Customers in Western Canada can look forward to receiving their Endy products in half the time, with shipping to most addresses taking three days or less. Extended customer service hours across the region will further enhance the customer experience, ensuring no customer question goes unanswered.
In addition, the brand is committed to giving back as it grows, donating thousands of mattresses each year to Canadians-in-need through local charity partnerships.
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**UPDATE** A Califonia-based toy company, MGA Entertainment INC submitted a bid for the Canadian operations of Toys ‘R’ Us Inc.
With no buyer or agreement with creditors, a Bloomberg report suggested that Toys ‘R’ Us in the U.S. is liquidating its 880 stores. A U.S. shutdown seems likely, but with 82 stores plus an e-commerce site, what will happen to the Canadian subsidiary of the store chain?
The Canadian operation remains profitable with $1.08 billion in annual revenue, even though its parent company filed for Chapter 11 last September. According to Lou Brzezinski, the lawyer who represents Toys “R” Us Canada, it’s still possible for the Canadian unit to be spun off, sold and transferred. Some Canadian units of U.S. retailers have survived their parent company’s bankruptcy, such as The Source, which thrived on its own.
According to Toys ‘R’ Us Canada’s vice-president for marketing on Thursday, Clint Gaudry, the company continues to honour all of its customer policies and programs such as its baby registry, gift cards and loyalty points, and business in Canada is operating as usual.
As far as the Canadian company’s survival, it’s possible, but it would depend on finding a buyer not worried about the future of store-based retailing, who is willing to improve the stores and the e-commerce site. “I could see a private equity firm going in for this,” said George Minakakis, principal at Toronto-based consulting firm Inception Retail Group Inc. “I always wondered why this toy store has to look like a warehouse, versus an environment where it looks like a kid could have fun?”
However, on the negative side, Toys ‘R” Us Canada would have no U.S. business supporting them, and marketing and merchandising costs could skyrocket. Even with its strong balance sheet, buyers of retail businesses are warier than ever before about investing in a brick and mortar business.“The Toys “R” Us bankruptcy, changing nature of retail, the underperformance of movie toys, and the new light-speed at which kids’ tastes change has created the highest level of trepidation and uncertainty we have seen in years, perhaps since the onset of the Great Recession.”
While Toys“R” Us Canada faces an uncertain future, the company said on Friday that it had no information or comment on the reports about its U.S. parent.
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In a committed effort to lose its image as a ‘basic’ clothing retailer, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will launch its most ambitious clothing launch in years on Thursday. Copying rivals Amazon and Target, the Arkansas based chain is determined to become a destination for trendy clothing with its four new private label lines for women, children, and men. Prices will range from $5 to $30 (U.S.).
According to Walmart, this effort aims to respond to their customers’ wishes for smarter and more stylish fashions, such as ruffled items and skinny jeans. One of its new clothing lines, Time and Tru, will focus on women who want to polish their overall look; another line, Terra & Sky will provide clothing for plus-size women; their new Wonder Nation line will cater to children; and its private brand, George, will sell men’s items, but only in the U.S. This spring, Walmart’s revitalized website will focus on fashion and home design, with the goal to increase sales above 9% in 2018. Current Walmart labels, such as White Stag and Faded Glory, and George’s women’s clothing in the U.S., will be discontinued. In addition, other upgrades are being implemented, such as inspiring store displays, upgraded clothing departments, and fitting rooms. Walmart says the move is in response to customer requests for affordable stylish clothing. Essentially Walmart wants to do what Joe Fresh and Loblaws started doing 10 years ago.
Launching new clothing lines can be risky, as discounter Walmart learned in 2005. Their upscale Metro 7 collection, advertised in Vogue, failed with their customers. However, Walmart is more confident this time around as this launch started with the focus on their customers.
Walmart is hoping to emulate their main competitors, Amazon and Target, who greatly boosted their profit margins with their private label clothing brands by eliminating the middleman and keeping exclusive. Amazon is on target to become the largest U.S. clothing retailer, raising its market share from 6.6 % to 16 % by 2021.
In recent years, Walmart has been trying to change their image. They gained a negative reputation as the anti-worker company that valued profits more than anything else, and for putting mom and pop stores out of business. They have spent millions recently to rehabilitate their image, improving customer service, and adding training and education programs, plus higher salaries for their employees. In their attempts to be a good corporate citizen, they now participate in humanitarian efforts, starting with participating in clean up efforts after Hurricane Katrina. It is ironic that e-commerce and online sales sites, such as Amazon, are now being blamed for the retail apocalypse.
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DID you know that Canadians are the fastest binge-watchers in the world? I guess that doesn’t come as big of a surprise as you’d imagine. Do you remember your first time binging? We found out that it takes a new Netflix member 12 days to begin their first binge, with the most finishing a season in just 3 days. We’ve been there, done that. Sometimes once you start you can’t stop. For those users who have been a member for at least a year, 90% of those have gone all the way and had their very first Netflix Binge.
Can you guess which were the most watched shows by Canadians? These stats were just leaked and according to Netflix, these are the shows that users binge first in Canada overall:
Breaking Bad
Orange is the New Black
The Walking Dead
House of Cards
Stranger Things
Trailer Park Boys
Narcos
Family Guy
Suits
How I Met Your Mother
If you can’t remember your first binge there’s actually a hack for that. Go to your Netflix account page. Select “viewing activity” and scroll all the way (and WAY) down – There you have it.
Netflix Methodology: Binge defined as completing at least one season of a show within 7 days of starting. The analysis focused on members who joined in the past five years. All TV series were included except for kids/family content and seasons with fewer than 5 episodes.
Source: Netflix
According to Financial Times, the CEO of Lulumeon, who has led the department since 2014 has taken leave immediately due to a conduct breach. There has been no explanation provided about the exact nature of the breach. Seems pretty sketchy to us.
Despite his departure, Laurent Potdevin is set to receive a total payout of 5 million dollars as he exits. Reported by Financial Times, “as part of the separation agreement, he will be paid $3.35 million immediately and an additional $1.65 million other the next 18 months.” That’s not a bad deal at all, especially after a breach of conduct.
According to people close to Lululemon, the decision happened after a “range of instance” involving the 50-year-old, that the company is keeping private to protect the details involved. Sounds pretty suspicious to me. I’m sure news will be leaked soon enough to bright to light the incident. Mr. Potdevin has not made any comment since his exit.
Lululemon has been scrutinized before after a customer scandal involving Chip Wilson, the company’s founder. Mr. Wilson resigned as chairman in 2013 after his very controversial comment blaming a product defect on women’s weight. “Some women’s bodies just actually don’t work” in the pants, Wilson said in an interview. Sales did decrease after that comment but Mr. Potdevin was able to move the company back on track. Here’s a photo of him with Justin Trudeau from his personal Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZeGXJ8lGVz/?hl=en&taken-by=laurentpotdevin
Lululemon’s Instagram or Twitter have not discussed the issue or posted in three days. Here was their last post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BevepKEjFxi/?hl=en&taken-by=lululemon
Source: Financial Times
So, we’ve posted about it quite a bit, so you should already know about the ordeal that landed H&M in hot water. H&M has apologized profusely for the “coolest monkey in the jungle” sweater incident, but that hasnt’ stopped major celebrities like the Weeknd and G-Eazy from distancing themselves from the brand. Not only has there been a major celebrity backlash, in South Africa stores were confronted by protestors where some of the demonstrators trashed and vandalized H&M stores.
So what do you do if you are a major retailer facing a serious backlash? You give the people what they want and host a sale. While H&M hasn’t officially come out and said that this is an apology sale many shoppers find it extremely convenient that the brand is having such a heavily discounted winter sale a week after the incident.
It will be interesting to see how the sale goes, and it begs the question can a great sale make people forget about a huge mistake? Only time will tell.
Town Shoes Limited – based out of Toronto has announced it will unveil the first DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse store in Winnipeg at the Winnipeg Outlet Collection. On Wednesday, May 3rd, Winnipeg shoppers will be able to shop the first DSW in the province of Manitoba.
DSW is known for their wide assortment of men’s and women’s designer and brand name shoes and offers customers everyday savings of up to 40% off. With over 2,000 styles of footwear, this will be a great footwear shopping destination for consumers in the Winnipeg area.
The new Winnipeg location will also offer DSW kids, which includes designer and brand name footwear options for infants all the way up to teens.
To celebrate the Winnipeg opening, the first 100 customers at the DSW location on Wednesday morning will receive a $25 DSW Cash Card which can be redeemed instantly towards a purchase at the store. DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse will also be giving away a multi-purpose drawstring bag as a special gift with purchase, while quantities last.
The DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse Winnipeg Outlet Collection store at 555 Sterling Lyon Parkway, Anchor B, will open on Wednesday, May 3rd at 10:00 a.m. Regular store hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Ivanhoé Cambridge has officially announced the opening date for its new 100-store Outlet Collection Winnipeg, which will be Canada’s second pure outlet centre West of Ontario. Hiring is ongoing for various retailers, and there will be a job fair this month to fill various positions.
The enclosed 400,000 square foot centre opens to the public on the morning of Wednesday, May 3, and Ivanhoé Cambridge has confirmed the first group of 45 retailers. About half of the new stores will be new to the Manitoba market. Outlet Collection Winnipeg will also feature six anchor tenants, including Saks OFF 5TH*, Old Navy, F21 Red by Forever 21*, DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse* and Winners. Other retailers will include:
