Stephan's Thursday Picks
Pax Westona
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
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)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Stephan's Tuesday Picks
Friday, 15 May 2026
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)
Thursday, 14 May 2026
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)
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
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)
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
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)
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