National Business

NEW YORK — Amazon wants to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, where shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without waiting in line or ever opening their wallets.

MONTREAL — Aimia Inc. continued to rely on investments in a pair of foreign loyalty programs to keep earnings in the black last quarter as it came off a tumultuous year of shareholder dissidence and litigation.

TORONTO — Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has signed a US$300-million deal investment deal with New Gold Inc. Under the agreement, the pension fund will acquire a 46 per cent free cash flow interest in the New Afton gold-and-copper mine.

NEW YORK — Macy's reported stronger-than-expected sales and profits for the fourth quarter less than a month after it announced a major restructuring.

TORONTO — George Weston Ltd.

TORONTO — Bank of Nova Scotia is optimistic its international ventures are headed for success after a recent overhaul saw it slash and simplify its overseas operations.

TORONTO — BMO Financial Group beat expectations and reported a first-quarter profit of $1.59 billion as the bank worked to expand its footprint south of the border. The Toronto-based bank said its profit for the quarter ended Jan. 31 was up from $1.

TORONTO — Mondelez International says it has signed a deal to buy a significant majority interest in Toronto-based Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp., maker of baked goods such as two-bite brownies.

The generic drugmaker Mallinckrodt has a tentative $1.6 billion deal to settle lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, it announced Tuesday.

TORONTO — Thomson Reuters says Steve Hasker has been appointed as the company's next president and chief executive. He will replace Jim Smith, who will become chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.