EDMONTON A report by Retail Insider says Disney will be closing all 18 of its retail store in Canada by the end of the summer. Two have already shuttered. According to the report, Disney made the move to re-evaluate its operations amid a “challenging time for retail and landlords in North America” as more consumers shift their shopping online. “Over the next year Disney will focus on providing a more seamless, personalized and franchise-focused e-commerce experience through its shopDisney platform,” Disney said in a statement in March. Disney never launched an e-commerce presence in Canada, despite promises to do so, the report says.
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Michelle Dixon and Lindsay Pennock will be rectifying a grievous oversight with the opening of 70 Acre Brew Co. in Sherwood Park later this spring.
“It’s something we’ve discussed a lot over the years,” says Dixon, who with Pennock owns the new brewery and taproom at 310, 6000 Buckingham Drive. “The craft beer scene has been growing in Alberta, but we hadn’t seen anything specifically come out of Strathcona County or Sherwood Park. We wondered why that would be, and decided to take action.”
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For the first time in six years, Jenny Ren won’t be able to visit her family back home in China for the New Year.
The 25-year-old first moved to Edmonton to attend the University of Alberta and after graduating in 2017, she took a job as a bank adviser. Ren would often travel overseas to see her parents and grandparents in Shanxi province, which is roughly 600 kilometres southwest of the country’s capital of Beijing, during Chinese New Year also known as the Lunar New Year.
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