News

What’s new at Karrys? What’s new in your industry? Here’s where you’ll find quick updates and interesting articles on current issues, exciting developments and more.

More on the HST. . .What’s Taxable, What’s Not

Stay up to date and ensure you have the answers your customers need. This pdf offers a guideline on where the HST applies and where it doesn’t – print it out and keep it on hand as a valuable information source!

Please review PDF for more information

HST...What You Need to Know

Starting July 1, 2010, Ontario is harmonizing its provincial sales tax with the federal sales tax. The current retail sales tax (RST) will be replaced with a more modern, value-added tax that will be combined with the federal goods and services tax to create a harmonized sales tax (HST).
This PDF provides more information

Reprinted from OCSA website

New Tobacco Law: C32, The Facts You Need

Please review PDF for important changes coming soon to the retail sale of cigars.

Steven Karrys Awarded Peter Gorman Humanitarian Award at NACDA 2009 Industry Business Summit Awards of Excellence

Steven Karrys, President and CEO of Karrys Bros., Limited is the 2009 recipient of this prestigious award. (more)

Canadian Convenience Stores “State of the Industry” Report 

The latest on what’s happening in your industry . . .

The Board of Directors for the Canadian Convenience Stores Association (CCSA) invites our members to review the very first State of the Industry report by visiting the CCSA web site (more)

Food Product Recalls: How to Protect Your Customers and Stay Informed

Petro-Canada is taking the lead on helping retailers keep on top of the situation by providing links to postings as they happen on the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) website.  These RSS (meaning no manual update is needed) links are a valuable resource that enables you to be proactive in ensuring product safety in your store.  Info is available in English and French.

Product Recall News Feed:
(includes download instructions – service is free of charge)
http://active.inspection.gc.ca/eng/util/newrsse.asp?fa=intro&cid=40 

Email Set-up:
(subscribe and get the news feed sent directly to your PDA (i.e. Blackberry, etc.))
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/tools/listserv/listsube.shtml?foodrecalls_rappelsaliments