Social media company Snap also announced that it plans to cut 1,000 full-time positions from its North American workforce – 16 per cent of the approximately 5,200 it has across the US and Canada – as part of cost-cutting measures and a strategy leveraging AI, the Canadian Press reported.<\/p>\n
In a letter to employees on Wednesday, Snap asked all North American employees to work from home.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/a> announced it is closing shop, and over 8,300 workers were left unemployed. Meanwhile, Starbucks<\/a> also announced in September 2025 that it was set to close a number of its coffeehouses across North America, including Canada, and eliminate approximately 900 non-retail jobs as part of a sweeping restructuring effort aimed at strengthening its core business and enhancing the customer experience.<\/p>\n Affected 7-Eleven locations remain unspecified\u00a0<\/p>\n The 7-eleven closures \u201cinclude the conversion to wholesale fuel stores,\u201d Japan\u2011based parent Seven & i Holdings reported in its financial filings, according to CBC.<\/p>\n The company has been steadily expanding its wholesale fuel operations in North America, which accounted for more than 900 locations as of December 2025, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media company Snap also announced that it plans to cut 1,000 full-time positions from its North American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[196384,49,48,44,9255],"class_list":["post-605872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-7-eleven","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-snap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}