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Samsung to open 90 "store in store" kiosks at Best Buy & Future Shops in Canada
this spring On top of its 1,400 US locations, Samsung is now pushing
ahead with plans for a greater presence in Canada and in Europe. The company
said that it would operate those Samsung Experience shops for three years, and
then evaluate with Best Buy whether to continue the arrangement.
(Source
cnet.com)
Joe Fresh to open 120 stores in 25 countries
Grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. is taking its Joe Fresh discount clothing
line overseas in a major expansion that will target fashionistas in the Middle
East, Eastern Europe and South Korea. Currently, Loblaw sells the apparel brand
at more than 300 locations across Canada, including 12 standalone and studio
stores, and six U.S. locations in New York and New Jersey.
(Source
cbc.ca)
Amazon top Canadian digital retailer
 Organized retail crime ‘very common,’ Calgary police say after big bust &
seizure of $230,000 of stolen merchandise They hire small-time crooks
to fill orders of goods — high-end clothing, purses, food — that they want
stolen from retailers. They pay the low-level thieves with cash, usually 30
cents on the dollar, or with drugs. Teams of shoplifters raid stores during the
day, distracting staff, grabbing jackets worth maybe $3,000 and escaping
undetected, the items concealed in bags rigged to evade censors. Once their
underlings have stolen enough loot over a period of days or months, the
organized retail crime rings approach a middleman, a fence, to sell the
products. It could be through online auction sites, including eBay and Kijiji,
or some other means, such as shipping the goods to other jurisdictions for sale.
Calgary police have identified “several pockets” of offenders running at
different levels of organized retail crime over the past two years. Officers on
Wednesday unveiled the seizure of nearly $230,000 worth of high-end clothing,
wallets, purses, coats, sunglasses and baby items stolen from retailers in the
Calgary area and recovered in a Vancouver apartment. Police believe the 1,570
items were stolen by organized retail crime offenders. They’re part of a
troubling brand of criminal who is constantly knocking off stores, said Const.
Lara Sampson, with the Calgary Police Service’s retail industry crime
initiative. "It is very common,” Sampson said. “We’re finding them, whether it
be through straight product or through counterfeit credit cards to purchase
merchandise or other gift cards. And we see it on a daily basis.” The Vancouver
Police Department’s anti-fencing unit was a behind the latest seizure. Working
off of a tip in December, police found an apartment with its doors open and
about 10 people inside trying on jackets from clothing racks. Calgary police are
reaching out to local retailers to identify the recovered property, believed to
have been stolen between October and December. Retail theft costs Canadian
businesses an estimated $4 billion annually, according to the Retail Council of
Canada. It has a “huge impact” on the industry and it also affects consumers
because the losses “trickle down to the costs of other goods,” said Lanny
McInnes, director of the retail council’s Prairies office.
(Source
calgaryherald.com)
Four busted using stolen credit cards hitting retailers in St. Catharines and
Niagara Falls, Ontario On Feb. 18, Police were notified of a group of
males buying gift cards and Ipads from various businesses in St. Catharines and
Niagara Falls, using stolen credit card data. Police arrested one of the males
inside one of the businesses and the three other males who were waiting in a
vehicle nearby. Charged with possession of property obtained by crime, identity
theft, identity fraud, obstruct police, unauthorized use of credit card data,
participation in criminal Organization, and fraud over $5000 is 24-year-old
Saqib Tariq, William Manzara, Michael Lee and Cesar Mederos.
(Source
bulletnewsniagara.ca)
Winnipeg police bust four in “crime spree” involving credit card, debit card and
check fraud The four allegedly stole about 100 pieces of
identification, credit and debit cards and checks in home and vehicle break-ins,
police said. The stolen items were used to make purchases at Winnipeg
businesses. (Source
globalnews.ca)
Two suspects charged in Shopper’s Drug Mart robbery in Mount Forest, Ontario, CN
Vancouver
Man faces charges in three robberies where gun was fired
RCMP in Fort Macleod, Alberta investigating the Fort Pharmacy burglary
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