As the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted consumer behaviour and retail operations, many small businesses had to adapt to the new reality quickly. Although numerous retail processes can be reinvented in a virtual environment, several shops rely on in-person interaction, physical product demonstration, or the sale and purchase of goods and services to customers in a…
Customers who don’t work in the building that houses Kento Kitayama’s tiny cafe near Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood better be prepared to settle for takeout. He can only take orders through a little window facing the sidewalk.
Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand, which opened late last month, has no seating and sparse furnishings. Kitayama could likely stand in the…
High Tide, an Alberta-based downstream cannabis corporation focused on the manufacturing and wholesale distribution of smoking accessories and cannabis lifestyle products, today announced that it has recently opened its fifth Canna Cabana retail store. Situated on 111th Avenue Northwest in Edmonton, Alberta, the retailer was granted a business license by the City of Edmonton and…