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• The Winnipeg Free Press reports that “Walmart Canada plans to spend more than $750 million over the next year to open, relocate or remodel 73 retail stores, including former Zellers locations.” The company said that “the initiative will create more than 14,000 jobs when factoring in store employees, as well as trade and construction jobs.”

More than half the projects will be supercenters, the company says.
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