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Canadian Tire's Cash Loyalty Just Met Tim Hortons
Some retail pairings work and some quietly disappear. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, food economist and host of the Food Professor Podcast, walks through the ones that stuck, like Starbucks inside Western Canadian grocery chains and McDonald's inside Walmart, and the ones that didn't, like the food counters that briefly showed up inside Home Depot.
Canadian Tire's identity has never been about food. It's been about Canadian Tire money, the loyalty currency most Canadians think of first. Sylvain explains what it means for that identity now that the company has partnered with a coffee chain instead…
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