Sobey’s Strategizes Its Growth In The Number Two Position
Saturday, May 4th, 2013Tweet Sobeys, Canada’s second largest food chain based in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, is poised to experience a significant change to its business as Target continues to open its new locations across Canada in 2013. As the official supplier of food to Target stores across the nation, Sobeys business is about to exponentially expand as Target [...]
Target Canada: Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down
Saturday, April 27th, 2013Tweet We visited one of Target Canada’s new locations at Shopper’s World in the East End of Toronto and were quite pleased to see the progress this closely watched (and scrutinized) retailer has made since our first visits over a month ago. We are pleased to report that improvements are being made and we found [...]
Walmart Ramps Up Competition With New Live Better Magazine
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Tweet I walked into my local Wal-mart store this week as the greeter handed me a new copy of the 1st edition Walmart Live Better magazine produced by Walmart Canada and Rogers. This free, 110 page publication is currently being distributed in Super Centers across English speaking Canada and is available online and for mobile [...]
Amazon Heading Online Charge In Canada
Friday, April 5th, 2013Tweet It’s true that Canada lags behind the US in the amount of online product offered to consumers across the country, but some companies are starting to lead the charge in this area and beginning to offer more for sale online. Amazon has taken recent strides in this area and is offering more [...]
Dollar Stores Gaining Share Of Wallet From Traditional Retailers
Sunday, November 4th, 2012Tweet Consumers shop at different types of stores to fulfill different needs. Mass merchandisers like Canadian Tire provide a place where shoppers can find most of their needs under one roof. Discount mass merchandisers like Wal-Mart provide the right products in a one-stop shop at the lowest prices. Target and Costco also fall into this [...]
Back-To-School Survey Results
Sunday, August 5th, 2012Tweet Here at Field Agent we want to bring you relevant insights for your business in a timely way. In addition to our extensive retail audit functionality, we have the ability to pick the brains of our almost 11,000 Agents across the country through in-home or in-store surveys. This past week we polled 100 female [...]
International Retailers Attracted To Canada
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012Tweet As of late, there has been an ever increasing number of American and International chains showing interest or setting up shop in Canada. American retailers have been heading up north to delve into international expansion. Canada presents a closer, more familiar and less risky market as opposed to Europe or Asia. According to Ian [...]
Target Announces First Canadian Stores
Thursday, January 5th, 2012Tweet Target Canada announced its first wave of 24 stores that will be opening in Ontario in early 2013. It is not a surprise to see the first cluster of stores all located close to its Ontario based supply chain and head office. These stores will benefit from short supply chain lead times and the [...]
Target Watch: Video Games, Doritos and Mountain Dew
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Tweet Recently we were in Minneapolis touring Target stores in advance of our Canada 101 session and we saw a unique display that shows great understanding of shopper needs and the out of the box thinking about merchandising for which Target is famous. The display pictured below is located in the “PFresh” food section and [...]
Target Store List Gets A Little Clearer – And Muddier
Friday, September 23rd, 2011Tweet On Friday, Target announced the final list of 84 Zellers leases that they would purchase from HBC. These locations are in addition to the 105 stores announced back in May and the one purpose built store slated for Toronto that was announced in June. However, the story is more complicated. Included in the 84 [...]
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