Yesterday, the Toronto Star's Laura Beeston reported from Honest Ed's in its final days.

In its last retail gasp, Honest Ed’s finally showed its age ( Read more... )

Roxy Kirshenbaum's paragraph-long interviews with individually photographed shoppers at Honest Ed's touches on the meaning of the store for so many.

When Honest Ed’s closes up shop for good on December 31, it will do so in traumatic fashion. Not only is the 68-year-old store going out of business, but it and many of its neighbouring shops and ( Read more... )

Derek Flack's blogTO photo essay looking at the end of Honest Ed's is a thoughtful reflection on the end of an institution.

It's closing time at Honest Ed's, the discount institution that's operated on Bloor just west of Bathurst for almost 70 years. Those hoping to get a last look at the iconic retailer before the new year will find a store that' ( Read more... )

Jeremy Willard's Daily Xtra article from early this month about Ottawa's Stonewall Wilde's gives me some hope this reconfigured LGBT shop can survive. I certainly think they're doing the sort of thing they need to do for this niche business to survive, in a manner not unlike Toronto's Glad Day.

As of Oct 1, 2016, the book and art store After ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Vanessa Lu describes a corner store in Toronto's East York that I hope will set a valuable trend for retail, if perhaps an exhausting one.

Zahra Dhanani never imagined she would become the owner of a convenience store ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Azzura Lalani notes the expected huge throngs of shoppers even now crowding Yorkdale.

Toronto shoppers arrived early, armed with game plans and strategies to snag the best Boxing Day deals at the Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Shopping Centre ( Read more... )

blogTO's Phil Villeneuve shares the good news that HMV is committed to the survival of its Yonge and Dundas space for music, in the broadest sense.

The music industry in Toronto is ever-changing, but 2016 was a particularly difficult year for HMV ( Read more... )

CBC News' Dianne Buckner looks at how a Toronto company is behind the latest Christmas gift craze.

Quick. Can you name the Canadian toy company that's growing faster than Mattel, Hasbro and Lego ( Read more... )

Toronto Star business reporter Francine Kopun interviews David Mirvish, son of Honest Ed's founder, about his family's memories of this shopping institution.

He was a dreamer and his store was the dream ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Laura Beeston reports on a new wave of TTC merchandising that I will have to investigate, personally.

The TTC has expanded its online shop, stocked with official merchandise, just in time for the holidays ( Read more... )