Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why beef prices won't drop anytime soon (Bloomberg)
• As AI upends shopping, retailers tailor their pitches to chatbots (Globe and Mail)
• Frozen TV dinners get a high-protein makeover for the GLP-1 era (Bloomberg)
• No whey, a cottage cheese shortage! Demand surges amid protein craze (CBC)
• What India's Diet Coke shortage means for the U.S. (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The last days of Butter Ridge (NYT)
• Americans will do anything to get Indian mangoes (WSJ)
• Derek Thompson: Why your best ideas aren't original (Substack)
• UK supermarkets as competition watchdog to rein in Aldi and Lidl (FT)
• Big Loblaw stretches its tentacles, on track to become Canada's biggest landlord (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The Nortena burrito takes New York (The New Yorker)
• Doris Fisher, co-founder of the Gap, dies at 94 (NYT)
• Kraft Heinz CEO pushes value: Consumers are literally running out of money (WSJ)
• Will AB Foods' split from Primark unlock its potential (The Grocer)
• From the archives (2007): Michelin sprinkles stars on Tokyo (FT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Loblaw 'fighting back' against price hikes and seeing strength in discounted sales (Globe and Mail)
• The invisible force making food less nutritious (Washington Post)
• Thai food in America enters an adventurous era (Bloomberg)
• Is China decoupling on food (FT)
• AI in shopping. Transforming the retail ecosystem (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Magnum's mini ice creams ease fears of weight-loss drugs (FT)
• ACCC vs Woolworths may have exposed the 'magic' of supermarket discounts - but how will it change the way we shop (The Guardian)
• Lululemon's new CEO is already on the hot seat - and she hasn't even started yet (WSJ)
• Two NJ malls separated by just four miles - and very different fates (Bloomberg)
• Tesco argues equal pay claim disregards 'economic reality' (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Unilever sales lifted by Dove soap, rebound in Brazil (Bloomberg)
• Hershey beats expectations, buoyed by charging higher prices (Bloomberg)
• Hershey CEO on making luxury chocolate accessible - and battling Ozempic breath (WSJ)
• Walmart expands local products in bid to boost sales, traffic (Bloomberg)
• Colgate-Palmolive sales rise on international growth (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The State of Grocery Retail Europe 2025 (McKinsey)
• Ottawa announces $6 billion to boost skilled trades, smaller deficit projection of $66.9 billion (Globe and Mail)
• Health Canada approves generic Ozempic from Apotex as patients and insurers seek savings (Globe and Mail)
• The day the food noise died (NYT)
• New weight loss drugs like Ozempic can also erase people's love of food (Globe and Mail)