Competition fierce in Toronto, Canada's growth city. (drugstore chains)(Market Study: Toronto)

From: Chain Drug Review | Date: June 17, 1996 | Copyright information

TORONTO - Retailers know the value of location. History shows it is equally important to the growth and prosperity of cities. Venice in its prime, Amsterdam, London, New York - all owed much of their strength to their situation at the intersection of important trade routes.

So it has proved with Toronto, at the apex of the important Great Lakes trading area which, in its operation, was transcending political boundaries even before the coming into force of the Canada/U.S. Trade Agreement in 1989 and North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.

Toronto has enjoyed a boost in its ...

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