Stephan's Monday Picks

• Your budget is killing your strategy - and four ways to fix it (McKinsey)
• This restaurant stopped charging for food. Profits went up (NYT)
• J.M. Smucker expects sales to fall this year (WSJ)
• Driverless trucks are here - and they're delivering bags of Doritos (WSJ)
• Extreme heat risks losses for Indian suppliers to Uniqlo, Tesco (Bloomberg) 

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Campbell's sales fall on continued weak demand for snacks (WSJ)
• Plan to tighten healthy food rules provokes backlash from UK industry (FT)
• Walmart tells workers that AI will improve their jobs, not steal them (FT)
• Daughter of Mrs. Fields starts her own bakery brand (NYT)
• From the archives (1999): Campbell's devises new strategy in hopes of reheating soup sales (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Asda chair on how his turnaround will hold off Aldi threat (The Guardian)
• Canned, frozen juice from concentrate coming back to Canadian shelves (CBC)
• McDonald's bets on fancier chicken, airier restaurants to keep luring customers (Bloomberg)
• Boots in talks with Weston family over $10bn sale as owners look to ditch IPO plan (FT)
• US races to contain deadly screwworm threat to cattle supply (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why your next great meal may be at a gas station (WSJ)
• The hottest snacks on the market are ... dates (NYT)
• What are dot cakes, the internet's latest obsession (NYT)
• Why Canadians are paying more for chicken at the checkout lane (Globe and Mail)
• Why protein is running out as food companies put it in everything (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Americans on GLP-1s are overwhelming retailers with their nonstop returns (WSJ)
• Now you can get a Subway sandwich with your Walmart delivery (WSJ)
• Bernstein sours on packaged food stocks as inflation, GLP-1 bite (Bloomberg)
• The wellness industry finds its next target: New moms (Bloomberg)
• G7 fertilizers seek joint fertilizer action as war roils supplies (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How ADEO is preparing for retail's next wave (McKinsey)
• PEI fisheries brace for hardship as two diseases devastate the province's oyster industry (Globe and Mail)
• Competition for soon-to-expire food has Montreal food banks struggling (CBC)
• Why Berkshire Hathaway went window shopping with Macy's (WSJ)
• America's farms depend more than ever on troubled visa programs (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why Amazon has struggled to crack India (Bloomberg)
• Walmart CEO points to high fuel prices as 'stress point' (Bloomberg)
  
• America's 'other economy' tells a different growth story (FT)
• Nestle buys out Yfood in new CEO's first purchase (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2006): The hermit kings (Globe and Mail)