In this episode, our CEO Matt Crowell joins in to help with some co-hosting duties as we welcome the Publisher of Retail Insider Magazine, Craig Patterson.

Retail Insider is a prominent voice in retail...offering retail news, headlines from around the world and in depth Canadian Analysis. Craig hosts the Retail Insider podcast, and works on projects with the Retail Council of Canada.

We discuss:

• How there have been both closures and new store openings in retail through the pandemic
• The staffing challenges retail may face in the coming years
• What retail trends shaped by the pandemic will remain and fall away
• The eCommerce Halo Effect that brick and mortar retailers have in eCommerce
• How the landscape of Canadian retail is changing
• The effect of eCommerce on returns
• What new retail concepts have emerged from the pandemic
• How Retail Insider has evolved through the pandemic
• What Craig sees in the future for 2021

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It’s a story playing out with small businesses everywhere. Rapid consumer behaviour changes combined with constant changes to governmental operating regulations has significantly impacted small business owners. While some businesses have already chosen to, or been forced to close, Janeen Norman and 23 other Calgary business owners have decided to turn their story of struggle into one of self-determination and self-empowerment by establishing an eCommerce and food delivery collective called, "Best of Calgary Foods". In this episode you'll meet Janeen who owns Alpine Sausage and is the President of Best of Calgary Foods. 

Janeen explains:

• Best of Calgary Foods’ vision and mission 
• Why theuy out to create Best of Calgary Foods
• What kind of challenges they’ve faced early on
• How their unexpectedly explosive success forced them to find a new building  after only 4 days
• Why it is so important and urgent that people shop local
• How through their collective reach, they raise one another
• and, why Janeen says now is the time for small business to rise up

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Restaurants can offer pick-up and delivery options, and retailers provide eCommerce and curb side pick-up options, but what about experiential businesses like bowling alleys, theatres, and other indoor family fun centres? In this episode, you’ll meet Laurel Werbeski of Escape in Caledonia, an escape room and board game cafe in Ontario, and learn how they’re staying afloat, even amidst rolling lockdowns.

Laurel shares:

• Escape in Caledonia’s mission 
• How their business has changed due to COVID,
• Including what will continue to do even after the pandemic
• What they’re doing to stay afloat today
• How they’ve laid the foundation for a comeback 
• How they’re communicating with their customers
• And how the business community in Caledonia is pulling together

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