Expert: Hudson's Bay to resurrect discount retail chain Zellers

Published: 18 August 2022

Discount department store Zellers hopes to make a comeback next year, a decade after the Canadian chain shuttered most of its locations. Hudson's Bay Co. says Zellers will debut a new e-commerce...

Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) & Bensadoun School join forces

Published: 12 March 2022

Consumer behaviour has changed dramatically during the pandemic. Public health restrictions have played a major role, but a trend toward e-commerce and omni-channel retail was already underway. It...

McGill University receives $5 million in funding from Quebec government to bolster retail sector

Published: 1 April 2021

McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management will receive $5 million in funding to drive retail innovation and research, and support the province’s small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Expert: Couche-Tard's retail lab on campus gives peek at tech trials

Published: 15 January 2021

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and McGill University are opening a retail lab in Montreal that will let consumers get a taste for technologies that may transform retail in the in the current and...

McGill University and Alimentation Couche-Tard launch unique laboratory store to propel retail industry and customers into the future

Published: 14 January 2021

McGill University and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announce their partnership in the launch of a retail innovation lab at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management—a live testing ground for...

Experts: Black Friday and holiday shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published: 24 November 2020

In normal times, the holiday shopping season is when retailers and other businesses can make the money they need to survive leaner months. But with lockdowns being implemented in parts of the...

Next level training for retail leaders of the future

Published: 14 October 2020

Calling retail leaders of the future: McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management is launching a unique Master of Management in Retailing (MMR) designed to equip students with the...

Expert: MEC to be acquired by private U.S. investment firm

Published: 17 September 2020

Tens of thousands of people have signed on to a petition hoping to stop the sale of Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) to a private U.S. firm. The sale was announced Monday September 14 and will see...

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