Portage la Prairie’s shopping mall is permanently closing on December 31, 2024. The City of Portage la Prairie and the Portage Economic Response Team are working with mall tenants to find new locations for their buisinesses, and with affected workers to help them find skills training and new job placements.
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Retail trade
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Added on 2024-11-25
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North Central Region, MB
- infomedia.gc.ca
Four clothing retailers have closed their Winnipeg shops over the past year, citing the high cost of maintaining brick-and-mortar stores. Downtown menswear stores Hobbyism, Cntrbnd, and Livestock Winnipeg have closed up shop, as has Style Bar, a women's boutique in Osborne Village. Some will continue to sell clothing online.
The new owners of the RONA location in Portage la Prairie plan to add a garden centre to the store in 2025, creating additional jobs.
The provincial government is extending its pause on new licenses for controlled-access cannabis stores until December 2025. Controlled-access stores are businesses, such as gas bars, that are open to customers of all ages but restrict access to cannabis products. This is in contrast to stores that exclusively carry cannabis products and only admit customers of legal age.
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Retail trade
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Added on 2024-10-24
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Manitoba
- cbc.ca
A gourmet grocery store called Food… by Forks Trading Co. has opened at the Forks in Winnipeg for a one-year pilot project. The Forks Trading Company has hired five people to staff the new shop. Grocery offerings should continue to expand at the Forks in anticipation of a residential development about to begin construction nearby.
Specsavers, a U.K.-based eyewear chain, has expanded into Winnipeg. The company opened stores in CF Polo Park and St. Vital Centre shopping malls last month, and will launch a third location in the Crestview neighbourhood this week. Up to three more locations are planned in the city by the end of the year.