Pursuits
Amazon Goes North, Forcing Canada's Retailers Out of Hibernation
- Canada catching up on e-commerce as Amazon ramps up offers
- Montreal entrepreneur wants to create Quebec’s own Amazon
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Canadian retailers are getting serious about selling stuff over the internet. You can thank Amazon.com Inc. for that.
After years in which e-commerce seemed like an afterthought for many Canadian stores, more and more retailers are making the pricey investments in online shopping platforms that are needed to attend to a vast and sparely populated country. As Amazon steadily ramps up its own operations in Canada, local rivals are scrambling to avoid the same sort of fate that doomed many of their counterparts south of the border.