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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