Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Super C is reshaping grocery in Quebec (Canadian Grocer)
• Kroger plans biggest price cuts in years to take on Walmart, Costco (Bloomberg)
• PepsiCo to raise prices on small chip bags over higher US costs (Bloomberg)
• Morrisons planning to close 100 stores in the next few months (BBC)
• In India, you can get milk faster than it takes to make coffee (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Walmart sees signs at gas pump that consumers are stressed (WSJ)
• What comes after Peru's food revolution (Bloomberg)
• The world has officially reached peak bagel (WSJ)
• AI could transform economy, but no evidence yet of widespread job losses, Bank of Canada says (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2000): Craig Claiborne, 79, Times food critic and editor, is dead (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Trump cuts to grocery subsidies bite US food companies (FT)
• Target reports largest sales gain in years (WSJ)
• Calls for 'no seed oil' push companies to order up on butter and beef tallow (NYT)
• UK Treasury pushes supermarkets to cap prices (FT)
• Celebrating 50 years of great American wines (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Walmart is taking over empty drugstores to speed up deliveries (FT)
• Nestle's CHF 2.5 billion transform to boost efficiency, cut costs, and fuel growth (BCG)
• Why Gen Z's love 'boy kibble' and these other food trends (WSJ)
• Andy Jassy is rewriting Amazon's playbook for the AI age (Bloomberg)
• Court rules Coles misled shoppers with its Down Down discount campaign (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• GLP-1 users are taking a bite out of restaurants (WSJ)
• Why are life is now on subscriptions (NYT)
• The shoppers redefining how to save money on groceries (NPR)
• The world is awash in bourbon. That's a problem for big booze (WSJ)
• Do you have a mango dealer (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• I want to live like Costco people (Taste)
• Why Spirit Airlines failed where European budget carriers thrived (The New Yorker)
• The slopification of lunch (Esquire)
• From the archives (2016): How Americans pretend to love 'ethnic food' (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Ambani's cola war with Coke, Pepsi spurs fridge bonanza in India (Bloomberg)
• Potato chip bags are going black and white because of the Iran war (WSJ)
• Retailers are making expensive bets that shoppers still want to go to stores (NYT)
• Dunkin' returns to Canada after ten years, with plans for hundreds of locations (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart lays off or relocates 1,000 workers (WSJ)