Stephan's Monday Picks

• Sushi wars roll into America as Japan's top chains face off (Bloomberg)
• American buyers acquire Slate Grocery REIT days after announcement of distribution cut (Globe and Mail)
• The $40 cocktail that shaped Singapore's acclaimed bar scene (NYT)
• Why Kroger is trying to be more like Walmart (WSJ)
• General Mills taps COO to helm its turnaround (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Boots owner nears $9bn sale of chemist to Canada's Weston family (FT)
• Remote work is finally ending as the pandemic era fades (Globe and Mail)
• Competition watchdog's pricing probe mostly benefits retail giants, say small grocers (Globe and Mail)
• M&S strikes beauty deal with LVMH's Sephora (FT)
• From the archives (2003): Weston boss uses retail therapy for his 'addiction' (The Irish Times)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A supermarket opened a pub to get around liquor laws. Now it needs bouncers (WSJ)
• Juniper lattes? Pine sodas? Food is taking us back to the forest (NYT)
• How supermarkets became protein-maxxed (NYT)
• Billion-dollar beauty: The odds of scaling a breakout brand (McKinsey)
• RFK Jr.'s push to revamp American food runs into White House resistance (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon wades into India's fast delivery battleground (FT)
• How America's biggest buffet chain cracked the math on all you can eat (WSJ)
• Competition Bureau concerned that grocery deals are being kept from Canadians (Competition Bureau)
• Walmart chief rules out personalized pricing as AI transforms retail (FT)
• A letter from our CEO (Walmart)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• At age 159, Canada is finally a power on the world stage (Globe and Mail)
• Carney lays out his vision for breaking Canada's reliance on the U.S. (NYT)
• 'What could possibly go right' review: The rise of a restaurant empire (WSJ)
• Why is Danny Meyer, the happy face of hospitality, serving up regrets (NYT)
• Sealing the deal: 10 takeaways from the Canada Investment Summit (RBC)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Small brands are outgrowing big CPG companies (BCG)
• It's raining boxes: Amazon deliveries overwhelm a Texas suburb (NYT)
• Japan fights its rivals to stop rivals from copying its flawless fruit (Bloomberg)
• Jersey Mike's bets hot sandwiches will sell in U.K.'s cold and rain (FT)
• Prices have skyrocketed in Russia's supermarkets. We have the receipts (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside the Carbone crew's decadent bid for world domination (GQ)
• 'Sugar Coated' review: The sweetest meal of the day (NYT)
• Global ube export ban threatens end of purple patch (FT)
• How do the latest Black Sea attacks affect global food security (CSIS)
• From the archives (2012): Check, please (The New Yorker)