As online purchases of groceries and other essentials surge, Walmart Canada is accepting PayPal payments on Walmart.ca. A survey commissioned by PayPal in early April shows that 30 percent of Canadians are shopping online for groceries. This marks a 58 percent jump from a comparable survey conducted just four weeks earlier, before the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. This is the first time PayPal has partnered with a Canadian retailer that sells groceries.
Indigo Books and Music Inc. says it is rehiring 545 of its workers after tapping into the federal government’s emergency wage subsidy. The Toronto-based retailer temporarily laid off 5,200 of its retail employees and closed its retail locations in mid-March amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The Indigo workers being rehired are in salaried and leadership roles at retail locations. The rehiring comes as Indigo says its online channel has experienced triple-digit growth.
Canadian Tire will hold its annual general meeting electronically “in light of the recommendations and restrictions by authorities to address proactively the public health impact of COVID-19 and to mitigate risks to the health and safety of our shareholders and the broader community.”
