(Reuters) – Canadian retailer Loblaw on Wednesday beat Wall Street expectations for second-quarter revenue, helped by higher prices and as demand held up for groceries and drugs.
The company’s revenue rose 6.9% to C$13.74 billion ($10.40 billion) in the quarter ended June 17, compared with analysts’ average estimate of C$13.63 billion, according to Refinitiv data.
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($1 = 1.3208 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Juveria Tabassum in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar and Shounak Dasgupta)
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