“Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”

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The Existential Dread of Shopping for Groceries | The Walrus

I have lost all sense of what food should cost

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I Don’t Want to Pay for Things with My Face | The Walrus

Attention shoppers, there’s a data grab masquerading as a perk in aisle five

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22.06.2024

Can Montreal Save Its Soul Amidst Gentrification? | The Walrus

Evictions, property flips, and the whims of policy makers and landlords are gutting the city

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The Scourge of Self-Checkout | The Walrus

The technology promised to make shopping easier. It has done the opposite

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15.05.2024

Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the World | The Walrus

After the company announced widespread closures, I visited a store for the first time in decades

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08.05.2024

Roots’ Race to Make Hoodies and Sweatpants Sexy | The Walrus

The legacy brand has hired fashion provocateur Joey Gollish to breathe life back into it. Will Gen Z even notice?

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02.05.2024

Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists | The Walrus

At sixty, the coffee chain’s success proves old habits die hard

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28.03.2024

We’re More in Debt than Ever. What Now? | The Walrus

One paradoxical solution to the affordability crisis: let individuals take on even more debt

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14.03.2024

Loblaw Has Become an Everything Company | The Walrus

The grocery chain is now involved in pharmacare, financial services, and real estate—with no signs of slowing down

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21.11.2023

Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich | The Walrus

Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters

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07.08.2023

There Is No Housing Crisis | The Walrus

Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix

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03.04.2023

Lululemon Tried to Become a Tech Company. It Didn’t Work Out | The Walrus

With the spectacular failure of its futuristic workout device, the apparel giant proved that some business stretches go too far

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30.03.2023

Will Groceries Ever Be Affordable? | The Walrus

Food insecurity expert Sylvain Charlebois explains why flawed business regulations are making food unaffordable

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01.03.2023

Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions? | The Walrus

The coffee giant bills itself as a progressive company. But when employees started unionizing, corporate pushed back

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24.02.2023

Zellers Is Back. Is Nostalgia to Blame? | The Walrus

Companies have tapped into a longing for the past as a powerful marketing tool. Are Canadians buying in?

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10.02.2023

We Own More Dogs than Ever Before. We Didn’t Think It Through | The Walrus

The pandemic adoption rush has placed an unprecedented strain on the pet industry. Dogs are suffering too

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04.01.2023

Why Hudson’s Bay Company’s Future Is in Question | The Walrus

HBC saw its start during London’s bubonic plague and might see its end in the aftermath of COVID-19’s retail devastation

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13.12.2022

Is Simons Canada’s Next Great Department Store? | The Walrus

As other large North American retailers falter and close, the Quebec-based company has thrived

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25.11.2022

Rising Food Prices: Could a Grocer Code of Conduct Help? | The Walrus

The clock is ticking as retailers and suppliers hammer out new guidelines to boost transparency

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22.11.2022

Could an Indigenous-Owned Pipeline Be a Force for Good? | The Walrus

A wealth gap exists between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians. Some First Nations believe buying the Trans Mountain pipeline might fix it

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27.09.2022

Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? | The Walrus

Discrimination against sex work has become a flashpoint for advocates of freedom of expression and economic rights

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17.09.2022

When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay | The Walrus

The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?

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07.09.2022

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy? | The Walrus

Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question

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28.06.2022

Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US | The Walrus

Facing ecological and political uncertainty at home, some of the province’s largest lumber producers are looking south

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25.05.2022

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives | The Walrus

You can have a great credit history and still see your score plummet. How did the rating system become so powerful?

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20.05.2022

Makeup and Money: The Persuasive Pull of Beauty Influencers | The Walrus

In the world of big cosmetics companies, authenticity has become a currency

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20.05.2022

Is Dining Out Dead? | The Walrus

Some experts predict that 60 percent of restaurants won’t survive the lockdown. Here’s what chefs, owners, and their employees are doing to stay alive

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20.05.2022

Ask a Supply Chain Expert: Are Product Shortages Our New Normal? | The Walrus

’Tis the season to unpack the pandemic’s impact on production and distribution

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20.05.2022

What We Can Learn from the Fall of MEC | The Walrus

The company’s failure is a warning to co-ops across the country

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20.05.2022

How MEC Lost Touch with Its Roots | The Walrus

Mountain Equipment Co-op was always key to my life as an adventurer. Now, I barely recognize it

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20.05.2022

Navigating a Changing Economy | The Walrus

Conversations about work, inflation, and real estate dominated the year

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20.05.2022

Ditch the Sweatpants | The Walrus

The business of fashion is in crisis. But as our lockdown outfits get weirder, they're also closer to representing who we really are

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20.05.2022

COVID-19 Upended the Labour Market. Why Haven’t Workers’ Lives Improved? | The Walrus

The pandemic offered us a chance to restructure society, and we’re squandering it

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20.05.2022

Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong? | The Walrus

For decades, governments have done all they can to keep inflation down. But maybe letting things run hotter is exactly what we need

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Tipping Isn’t about Service – It’s a Psychological Con Job | The Walrus

When Your Landlord Is a Billion-Dollar Corporation | The Walrus

How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class | The Walrus

The Spectacular Fall of Victoria Gold, Once the Darling of Yukon Mining | The Walrus

We’re in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing | The Walrus

Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus

The Existential Dread of Shopping for Groceries | The Walrus

I Don’t Want to Pay for Things with My Face | The Walrus

Can Montreal Save Its Soul Amidst Gentrification? | The Walrus

The Scourge of Self-Checkout | The Walrus

Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the World | The Walrus

Roots’ Race to Make Hoodies and Sweatpants Sexy | The Walrus

Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists | The Walrus

We’re More in Debt than Ever. What Now? | The Walrus

Loblaw Has Become an Everything Company | The Walrus

Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich | The Walrus

There Is No Housing Crisis | The Walrus

Lululemon Tried to Become a Tech Company. It Didn’t Work Out | The Walrus

Will Groceries Ever Be Affordable? | The Walrus

Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions? | The Walrus

Zellers Is Back. Is Nostalgia to Blame? | The Walrus

We Own More Dogs than Ever Before. We Didn’t Think It Through | The Walrus

Why Hudson’s Bay Company’s Future Is in Question | The Walrus

Is Simons Canada’s Next Great Department Store? | The Walrus

Rising Food Prices: Could a Grocer Code of Conduct Help? | The Walrus

Could an Indigenous-Owned Pipeline Be a Force for Good? | The Walrus

Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? | The Walrus

When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay | The Walrus

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy? | The Walrus

Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US | The Walrus

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives | The Walrus

Makeup and Money: The Persuasive Pull of Beauty Influencers | The Walrus

Is Dining Out Dead? | The Walrus

Ask a Supply Chain Expert: Are Product Shortages Our New Normal? | The Walrus

What We Can Learn from the Fall of MEC | The Walrus

How MEC Lost Touch with Its Roots | The Walrus

Navigating a Changing Economy | The Walrus

Ditch the Sweatpants | The Walrus

COVID-19 Upended the Labour Market. Why Haven’t Workers’ Lives Improved? | The Walrus

Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong? | The Walrus

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