Heady days for Ottawa’s retail market

The city’s top malls are still performing well despite the squeeze on the middle class – columnist Michael Prentice explains why

Ottawans are travelling less and spending less in the United States due to the weakness of the Canadian dollar and are opting to spend that money at home instead. In addition, tourists from other parts of Canada who might have headed south before are now coming to Ottawa

Michael Prentice is OBJ’s columnist on retail and consumer issues. He can be contacted at news@obj.ca.
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Business is booming at two of Ottawa’s biggest regional shopping malls – the Rideau Centre and Bayshore Shopping Centre – and the city’s retailers generally had a pretty good year overall in 2015. Collectively, Ottawa’s retail outlets saw growth of at...

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