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  • City of Toronto allows for 24-hour delivery to restock store shelves

    With an eye on ensuring retailers, such as c-stores, have the products their customers want and need, all retail businesses are exempt from the City of Toronto Noise Bylaw to facilitate after-hour deliveries.Effective immediately and until further notice, the move is part of the City of Toronto’s response to COVID-19 and is meant to support of businesses and the community: The City’s Noise Bylaw includes the ability to provide an exemption in response to extraordinary circumstances affecting the immediate health, safety or welfare of the community.“We are taking this action to help Toronto businesses get deliveries and continue to stock their shelves with essential goods for our residents," said Mayor John Tory.  "By exempting retail businesses from the City’s noise bylaw right now, we will ensure that retailers can receive deliveries 24 hours of a day, seven days a week.”City staff – in consultation with Mayor John Tory’s office – moved quickly to make this immediate change after it was raised by the Retail Council of Canada as a way to allow additional deliveries for retailers the wake of panic-buying and stockpiling.“To assist in getting goods to market in a more expeditious manner, we applaud the City of Toronto for temporarily lifting time-of-day restrictions on roadways and deliveries for our retailers," said Diane J.
  • Bare store shelves, long lines amid coronavirus stockpiling

    When Harmony Samra went to her local No Frills Thursday afternoon in Toronto to pick up some food, she wasn't prepared for the chaos inside, where customers were filling multiple carts seemingly with anything they could grab off the shelves.
  • Aisle 24 offers cashierless convenience in a compact space

    When John Douang was growing up his parents owned a convenience store.
  • Retailers prepare for coronavirus stockpiling

    Disinfectants, bottled water and canned goods are flying off shelves and Nielsen says this will likely shift to shelf-stable and frozen foods, tooRetailers are bracing for a run on staples like water and canned goods as consumer fears about the coronavirus continue to escalate, with Nielsen predicting it will have an “almost immediate” effect on supply chains for the most sought-after items.Nielsen said in a report that efforts to build so-called “pandemic pantries” have been particularly pronounced in China, the U.S.
  • Parkland acquires ConoMart Super Stores in the U.S.

    Parkland Fuel Corporation, through its wholly owned U.S.
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  • New government program funds alternative fuel infrastructure

    Funding available for service stations, convenience stores and car washes The Government of Canada is putting more buzz into the country’s zero-emission infrastructure with a new program (launched February 2020) that puts cash in the hands of facility site developers.
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  • Couche-Tard leader signs up to promote diversity and inclusion

    Alimentation Couche-Tard president and CEO, Brian Hannasch, has joined the CEO ACTION pledge, which commits to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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