Expert: Couche-Tard's retail lab on campus gives peek at tech trials

Published: 15 January 2021

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and McGill University are opening a retail lab in Montreal that will let consumers get a taste for technologies that may transform retail in the in the current and...

McGill University and Alimentation Couche-Tard launch unique laboratory store to propel retail industry and customers into the future

Published: 14 January 2021

Partnering with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the new retail innovation lab at McGill’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management will enable ground-breaking research and test innovations, including...

Maxime Cohen appointed Associate Editor of Management Science

Published: 30 October 2020

Maxime Cohen, Associate Professor of Retail Management and Operations Management, was recently appointed Associate Editor of Management Science

How retailers can survive Montreal’s shift to red alert

Published: 7 October 2020

On September 30, 2020, Quebec announced that Montreal’s COVID alert system would be upgraded to red, with various businesses forced to close their doors for an initial 28-day period. If Quebec...

Delve: The Retailer’s Post-Pandemic Playbook

Published: 2 July 2020

Even if the spread of COVID-19 shows signs of slowing down and retail stores begin to reopen, the economic recovery from the shutdown will be long and convincing people to visit brick-and-mortar...

Desautels professors awarded IVADO research funding

Published: 1 July 2020

Four Desautels professors have been awarded research grants by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), a Montreal-based scientific and economic data science hub. The grants will fund three two...

Preparing case studies for today’s learners

Published: 23 June 2020

In business schools, operations management (OM) and analytics courses often use case studies to drive student learning. While OM cases have traditionally focused on applications in production and...

McGill alumni webcast - Talking shop: How COVID-19 is reshaping the retail industry

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:00to13:00

The swiftness and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing uncertainty over when it will subside, have drastically altered our shopping habits and shaken the retail industry to its core....

Delve: Consumer Behaviour in the Post-Pandemic Retail Landscape

Published: 19 June 2020

As the world rallies to contain the spread of COVID-19, consumers continue to adapt to the new normal, characterized by stringent physical distancing and self-quarantining measures. In such a...

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