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)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The race to automate the last mile of grocery deliveries (BCG)
• Resetting expectations: Canada's economy in a lower-immigration era (CD Howe Institute)
• Salmon farms on land take aim at a $19 billion industry (Bloomberg)
• Food prices rise to highest in three years on Iran war costs (Bloomberg)
• Italian gelato is getting weird and not everyone likes it (Bloomberg)

 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)