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- Zellers Is Rebuilding in 25,000-Square-Foot Pieces, and Food Is Its Open Category Zellers opens in Cambridge on November 12 at about 25,000 square feet, one floor of a former Hudson's Bay. IHR looks at who owns the chain, why landlords want it, the food range it…
- DoorDash’s US$17-Billion Instacart Deal Puts Canada’s Online Grocery Aisle in One Company’s Hands DoorDash's US$17 billion takeover of Instacart would put the delivery storefronts of most big Canadian grocers and pharmacies under one owner. What it means for commissions, shopper data and supplement ad costs, and what…
- The One-Hour Accept Rule Behind IHR Plugin’s Store Network IHR Plugin has published its service terms: one hour to accept a network order, three to ship it. At minimum wage, any order under about $19 costs the shipping store money, and stores with…
- Natural Health Trends Just Showed What a Black Friday Discount Does to a Supplement Business Natural Health Trends (NHTC) cut prices, gained 1,040 members and made no more money in its third quarter of 2026. Three checks every supplement retailer should run before a Black Friday markdown.
- Visa’s Small Merchant Rate Expansion: What It Is Worth to a Health Store Visa is opening its lower interchange rate to stores with up to $750,000 in Visa sales. Newly eligible health retailers can keep thousands a year, while stores already in the program face a 2027…
- Jamieson Shareholders Approve Kirin Takeover, With 29.5% Opposed The resolution passed with 70.51 per cent support, a few points over the two-thirds threshold. IHR looks at why so many investors resisted the price, what Canadian retailers lose when Jamieson stops reporting, and…
- What a networked order actually pays an independent retailer When an IHR order is fulfilled by a store that did not sell it, the retailer margin splits 60/40: 60% to the store that packs and ships, 40% to the store that took the…
- Trading Places: What Shifting US and Canada Supplement Regulations Actually Cost Health Canada proposed $542 a year for the right to keep one product on the market, and $20,035 a year to be an importer. Neither fee is in force; neither has been withdrawn. Meanwhile…
- Canada’s Biggest Supplement Brand Was Priced as an Export Asset Kirin is paying roughly C$2.5 billion for Jamieson Wellness, and the growth behind that price is in China and the United States rather than Canada. An independent read on the segment split, the Investment…
- The T Is Back: What Loblaw’s Tariff Labels and Ottawa’s Counter-Tariff List Mean for Natural Health Loblaw revives its T symbol as Canada's Sept. 8 counter-tariffs reach whey protein, honey and personal care. What natural health retailers need to know.