Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• General Mills considering separation of Haagen-Dazs unit outside North America (WSJ)
• Amazon, Uber partner on food delivery as competition intensifies (WSJ)
• Future of Wellness 2027 (McKinsey)
• Sysco is ruining American restaurants. Or saving them (NYT)
• After the Codfathers (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• His job is to turn Walmart's customer data into profit (WSJ)
• How CPG companies win agentic commerce (BCG)
• CVS to split off its healthcare business, ending its bigger-is-better era (NYT)
• Kraft Heinz to divest its North American coffee unit amid CEO's turnaround (Globe and Mail)
• Unilever to cut $1.1 billion in costs after food spin-off (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Is Dollar General charging too much (WSJ)
• The shopping bots are coming for Amazon (WSJ)
• Laughing Cow maker targets US households with bitesize snacks (Bloomberg)
• Asda appoints former Morrisons boss as CEO as sales struggle (The Guardian)
• From the archives (2017): How Dollar General became rural America's store of choice (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• McDonald's tests out new value deal bundles at select US stores (Bloomberg)
• Chiquita sees cheap bananas at risk on El Nino supply threat (Bloomberg)
• Burger King posted the boss's number for feedback. He got 100,000 calls (Bloomberg)
• Ben & Jerry's founders have been exploring deal to separate company from Magnum (WSJ)
• Coca-Cola raises outlook as increased volumes, prices boost results (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Aldi is pushing down grocery prices (NPR)
• Inside the five-year quest to reinvent Goldfish to be gluten-free (WSJ)
• 7-Brew, Gen Z's anti-Starbucks, is on an expansion spree (Bloomberg)
• How do you save the world's chocolate supply? You reinvent chocolate (Bloomberg)
• The grease hunters of Bengaluru want leftover fryer oil to fuel India's jets (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Who wins when agents do the shopping (McKinsey)
• How retailers can reinvent the digital flywheel for agentic commerce (BCG)
• Fraud concerns emerge over Loblaw bread price-fixing settlement payments (Globe and Mail)
• After the codfathers (Globe and Mail)
• Tesco agrees to sale of Czech and Slovak units to Ahold Delhaize for £1.5 billion (FT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The winners and losers of the weight-loss economy (FT)
• Weight-loss pioneer says the food industry needs to listen (FT)
• DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion (WSJ)
• How CEO Tony Xu led DoorDash to delivery dominance (WSJ)
• Japanese seafood giant Umios to buy High Liner Foods for more than $800 billion (Globe and Mail)