Marketing and retail specialist available to comment on Loblaws' plan to close 52 stores

HAMILTON, July 23, 2015: Mandeep Malik, an assistant professor of marketing whose specialties include Canada's retail marketplace, is available to comment on the announcement this morning that Loblaws will close 52 unprofitable stores.

Malik is available at malikm@mcmaster.ca and 905-525-9140, ext. 23972.

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