Stephan's Friday Picks

• The robotic grocery store of the future (MIT Technology Review)
• Convenience stores boom as Korea's households change (Bloomberg)
• Is bigger better (Robin Report)
• As it marks 50 years in Canada, McDonalds fights to shed junk food image (Globe and Mail)
• The retail winners and losers of 2016 (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Burger King, Tim Hortons aim to curb antibiotics in chicken supply (Financial Post)
• The world's biggest food company makes the case for its avant-garde human diet (Quartz)
• Why we're seeing so many corporate scandals (HBR)
• Setting value, not price (MQ)
• The mystery of the rude waiter (Slate)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why your company needs data translators (MIT SMR)
• Fat-free is out. Gluten-free is in (Bloomberg)\
• How breakfast cereal got its sugar fix (Globe and Mail)
• How one huge American retailer ignored the internet and won (Bloomberg)
• BP agrees to buy Woolworths fuel business for $1.29 billion (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The real reason grocery stores are running out of whipped cream this Christmas (Washington Post)
• Agricultural officials to suspend controversial chicken pricing benchmark (WSJ)
• The long of Product 19, the most beloved cereal you've never heard of (Slate)
• France is going to let drones start delivering the mail (Recode)
• Fred's rides to the rescue (Gadfly)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Stop chasing the wrong kind of growth (HBR)
• Perception beats reality in pricing (Bain)
• UPS takes a stake in retailing return specialist Optoro (WSJ)
• Coca-Cola's new CEO needs to think bigger (Business Insider)
• Whole Foods slammed for $8 chopped cheese (Eater)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The Power of Six: a framework to help brands with their pricing strategy (Kantar)
• What executives get wrong about cybersecurity (MIT SMR)
• FedEx plays hardball with retailers as profits get squeezed (WSJ)
• The power of omnichannel stores (Bain)
• Department stores are losing in beauty, too (Gadfly)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Customer loyalty is overrated (HBR)
• How H&M is trying to counteract fast fashion with revolutionary recycling (Fast Company)
• Wal-Mart looks to blockchain for produce, pork tracking (Retail Dive)
• Vive la Madeleine (HBS)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Quinoa is the new Big Mac (New Yorker)
• Millennials are fine without fabric softener; P&G looks to fix that (WSJ)
• China's convenient battleground (Gadfly)
• The case for taxing sugar, not soda (WaPo)
• Processed food brands look for fresh makeover (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sobeys owner reports 'very disppointing' quarter as struggles grow (Globe and Mail)
• Simpler is (sometimes) better. Managing complexity in consumer goods (MQ)
• 10 innovations that could disrupt grocery in 2017 (Retail Dive)
• A shortcut to figuring out what consumers value (CMO)
• The Paleo diet may need a rewrite, ancient humans feasted on a wide variety of plants (Smithsonian)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Mondelez jumps on reports of possible Kraft Heinz takeover (Bloomberg)
• Costco to open first business centre in Canada - a move that could "devastate" wholesale distributors (Financial Post)
• Retailers' discounts run deeper this holiday season (WSJ)
• Profit sharing boosts employee productivity and satisfaction (HBR)
• McKesson to sell 28 stores to win approval for Rexall takeover (CBC)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Stop letting quarterly numbers dictate your strategy (HBR)
• Nordstrom tries to cut down on holiday returns with e-gifts (Bloomberg)
• The medical origins of seltzer (The Atlantic)
• Costco's most disappointing product in 2016 was its store credit cards (Business Insider)
• Trouble in store (Bain)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Pepsico wants to sell healthy food, consumers want chips (WSJ)
• Lowe's Canada to convert 40 Rona big-box stores starting in early 2017 (Globe and Mail)
• Customer expectations are outpacing experience (Accenture)
• Trash talk (Robin Report)
• Processor of the year: General Mills (Food Processing)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How display design impacts what you buy (K@W)
• Is sugar killing us (WSJ)
• Sears gambles on groceries as losses more than double (Toronto Star)
• L.A. prosecutors are accusing four big retailers of tricking customers (LA Times)
• Nordstrom's $85 rocks are a stone-cold hit (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world (MQ)
• How big-box retailers weaponize old stores (Bloomberg)
• Keep calm and manage disruption (MIT SMR)
• Why Canadian lobster has become unaffordable to most Canadians (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon's 1997 Shareholder Letter (Amazon)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A blueprint for the future of food (NYT)
• Silicon Valley stumbles in world beyond software (WSJ)
• Goldman Sachs leads funding round for Toronto-based consumer products platform Hubba (Globe and Mail)
• Will meal kits disrupt the food supply chain like e-commerce did for retail (Food Dive)
• Sanofi must pick its battle (Gadfly)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Only Amazon could make checkout-free grocery shopping a reality (Wired)
• Making self-checkout work: Learning from Albertsons (Forbes)
• Dollar General, Walmart even in Kantar opening price point study (PG)
• Millennials just aren't that into Pepsi or Coca-Cola (Fortune)
• Is Lidl's biggest strength marketing (Kantar)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Amazon working on several different grocery formats, could open more than 2000 stores (WSJ)
• Inside Costco: The magic in the warehouse (Fortune)
• Big capital is hampering entrepreneurialism (Dialogue Review)
• Big food battles meal-kit startups for dinner-in-a-box (WSJ)
• How to throw the ultimate wine-and-cheese party using the miracle of data (WaPo)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How humans became consumers: A history (The Atlantic)
• Building a better customer insight capability (BCG)
• The most (and least) empathetic companies, 2016 (HBR)
• In new lawsuit, Instacart shoppers say they were regularly underpaid (Ars Technica)
• Inside Frank Stronach's plan to put a grass-fed steak on every plate (Canadian Business)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Nestle scientists find way to cut sugar by 40% (Bloomberg)
• The downside to full board independence (MIT SMR)
• Wells Fargo formally separates chairman, CEO roles (WSJ)
• Big food faces annihilation if it doesn't move with millennials on health (The Guardian)
• CPG: The post-replenishment challenge (Forbes)
• The grocery chain that became Africa's biggest retailer by betting on its middle class (Quartz)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The sales practices of Europe's leading consumer-goods companies (MQ)
• Albertsons in advanced talks to buy Price Chopper (Reuters)
• Palm oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labor (Amnesty International)
• Longo's big bet on online grocery shopping (Toronto Star)
• Online or traditional advertising: What's better for brands (Bain)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Theranos and the dark side of storytelling (HBR)
• Hype is ahead of science for Cacmpbell's-backed personalized diet startup (Forbes)
• How light bulbs watch you buy groceries (The Atlantic)
• Why Mastercard thinks decision intelligence could be a commerce game-changer (Pymnts)
• The desert rock that feeds the world (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The secret to smart fresh-food replenishment? Machine learning (MQ)\
• Munchery's struggles show how hard the food delivery business is (Bloomberg)
• How your brand can become a 'third place' (K@W)
• Here's why New York has two economic centers (Business Insider)
• Master the chemistry of juicy, tasty salmon (Wired)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Are consumers turned off by too many choices? Not yet (Stanford)
• How Canada's zany dairy system affects life (National Post)
• Family farms navigate risk in the new economy (Bloomberg)
• How loss aversion and conformity threaten organizational change (HBR)
• Black Friday sales numbers are useless and wrong (538)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• A retailer's guide to Black Friday (Retail Dive)
• The Observer view on the power of the big four supermarkets (The Guardian)
• Blaise Pascal knew a thing or two about persuasion (Quartz)
• The end of fast fashion? The man bringing high quality basics back to the high street (The Telegraph)
• Does anyone expect to pay full price anymore? (Business of Fashion)
• J&J said to make takeover approach for drugmaker Actelion (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Meet the test-tube turkey that costs $34,000 (MIT Technology Review)
• Wine: why can't all supermarkets be like Morrison's (The Guardian)
• Alibaba buys a third of discount Chinese grocery store Sanjiang (Bloomberg) 

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The hidden war over grocery shelf space (Vox)
• History is no match for Amazon in the battle for Black Friday (WSJ)
• Pusateri's U.S. expansion on hold, but Toronto food emporium still expanding (Globe and Mail)
• Why retailers could pay a price for not accepting mobile payments (K@W)
• Morrisons to revive 'much-liked' food and grocery brand (The Guardian)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Where's the beef? (fivethirtyeight)
• How Kellogg paid "independent experts" to tout cereal (CNBC)
• How to bring real competition to the healthcare industry (HBR)
• Sustainable sources of competitive advantage (Collaborative Fund)
• How Coca-Cola Life can enjoy long-term success (Canadian Grocer)

Stephan's Monday PIcks

• How predictive AI will change shopping (HBR)
• The battle for Canadian loyalty and expiring points: Customers will fight hard for what they've collected (Financial Post)
• How behavioural insights and cardboard boxes are core pillars of Unilever's shopper marketing (The Drum)
• What big data reveals about China's big spenders (Business of Fashion)
• A consumer psychologist looks at why customers buy (Knowledge@Wharton)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• These professors make more than a thousand bucks an hour peddling mega-mergers (ProPublica)
• How two trailblazing psychologists turned the world of decision science upside down (Vanity Fair)
• Will Amazon steal Christmas (Bain)
• Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound (The Guardian)
• Loblaw, Metro talks with suppliers pay off in better results as food price inflation stays flat (Financial Post)
• Walmart keeps us waiting online (Gadfly)
• What U.S. retailers can learn from Alibaba's record setting Singles Day (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Theranos whistleblower shook the company - and his family (WSJ)
• Big data at Tesco: Real time analytics at the UK grocery retail giant (Forbes)
• Echo and Alex are two years old: Here's what Amazon has learned so far (Fast Company)
• Why it no longer pays to work for a larger firm (Knowledge@Wharton)
• How UPS stays steady in center of e-commerce shipping storm (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Loblaw's profit jumps (Loblaw)
• How technology is transforming retail (HBR)
• Some retailers promote decision to remain closed on Thanksgiving (NYT)
• Toronto family uses 'extreme couponing' to keep monthly grocery bill under $200 (CBC)
• Online checkout: Theft strikes a British lender (The Economist)
• Are wild blueberries more nutritious than farm-raised (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Campbell's Soup: Old world? I don't think so (Robin Report)
• Studies show little benefits in supplements (NYT)
• How the vegan movement broke out of its echo chamber and finally started disrupting things (Quartz)
• Dirty linen: A bed sheets scandal hits the cotton industry (Bloomberg)
• As demographics change, food banks struggle to meet users' tastes (Globe and Mail)
• Tesco enjoys fastest growth in three years as Aldi and Lidl slow (The Telegraph)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• You don't need big data, you need the right data (HBR)
• Tesco Bank "ignored warnings" about cyber weakness (FT)
• How CVS, Walgreens battle for market share through their supply chains (Supply Chain Dive)
• What shoppers are affected by high food prices (Canadian Grocer)
• Budweiser and Coca-Cola: A match made in heaven (The Telegraph)
• Anheuser Busch In-Bev 2020 Dream Incentive Plan (SEC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Alibaba tops Singles' Day record as Chinese consumers rally (Bloomberg)
• The digital future of consumer packaged goods companies (MQ)
• What went wrong at Tesco Bank (The Register)
• How BMW optimised supply chain big data with Teradata (Computer Business Review)
• Fresh rivalry: Walmart, Amazon look to carve out larger online grocery business (CNBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• No laptop, no phone, no desk: UBS reinvents the work space (NYT)
• Walgreens sues Theranos, seeks $300 million in damages (WSJ)
• Your supermarket bill is set to go down further as grocers fight for market share (Financial Post)
• Walmart is beefing up inventory to win Black Friday (Fortune)
• The changing market for food delivery (MQ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How retailers can improve price perception - profitably (MQ)
• 3G wants the fat (Gadfly)
• How Target can refresh its failing grocery business (Retail Dive)
• How scenario planning influences strategic decisions (MIT SMR)
• M&S's chequered history of global expansion (The Guardian)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why great products fail (MIT SMR)
• Chipotle eats itself (Fast Company)
• Instabuggy launches meal-kit offering (Canadian Grocer)
• Tesco bank freezes transactions after cash taken from 20,000 accounts (The Guardian)
• PetSmart takes on Amazon with launch of same-day delivery and subscriptions (Tech Crunch)
• This is why Canada has the second-highest medication costs in the world (National Post)
• Hudson's Bay turns to robotic technology (Marketing Magazine)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The lost art of thinking in large organizations (MIT SMR)
• Why executives don't trust their own data and analytics insights (Fast Company)
• Nestle pays $145 million for stake in biotech firm Aimmune (Bloomberg)
• Where did my supermarket go (NYT)
• Coffee buzz (Gadfly)
• Food trends and the impact on CPG companies (Collaborative Fund)
• Neiman Marcus wants to sell you collard greens at an insane markup (Eater)
• Internal hires need orientation too (HBR)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Visa offers Manitobans $10 in free groceries if they don't shop at Wal-Mart (CBC)
• Who's the boss? Amazon contractors sue to find out (Bloomberg)
• The biggest threat to Wal-Mart's grocery dominance. It isn't Amazon (Retail Dive)
• You might be paying too much for your chicken (NYT)
• Most advertising is terrible, says Unilever (Marketing Week)
• Kroger hints at more M&A in the grocery aisle (Gadfly)
• At Trader Joe's, good cheer may mask complaints (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How did the Cubs' curse end? With the greatest game ever (ESPN)
• Whole Foods' Mackey takes sole ownership of fixing his creation (Bloomberg)
• What the New York Times missed with its big GMO story (Vox)
• How big brands can cultivate ethical suppliers (Stanford)
• Online booze ordering needs more buzz, says LCBO's new CEO (Toronto Star)
• Why do millenials hate groceries (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Trucking startup Convoy inks its biggest deal with Unilever (Bloomberg)
• Diageo: Zero-based budgeting is 'the new normal' for doing business (Marketing Week)
• IBM's Watson is everywhere - but what is it (MIT Technology Review)
• We're paying CEOs all wrong (Bloomberg)
• Williams-Sonoma hops on the meal kit bandwagon (Eater)
• From fried spider to grilled bat, four of the best Southeast Asian foodie tours (South China Morning Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• A year in, P&G CEO holds fast to company's historic strengths (WSJ)
• Tesco investors sue U.K. retailer over 2014 accounting scandal (Bloomberg)
• What is American cheese, anyway? (Serious Eats)
• Robots set to deliver food in Europe (Food and Wine)
• For helping immigrants, Chobani's founder draws threats (NYT)
• Ocado mixes AWS & Google Cloud because retailers fear for Amazon having their data (Tech Week)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• When Sobeys met Safeway (Globe and Mail)
• Doubts about the promised bounty of genetically modified crops (NYT)
• The $100 million U.S. government fish farm nobody wants (Bloomberg)
• Attack of the cyber drones (Gadfly)
• How to improve online grocery: Learning from Kroger, Walmart (Forbes)
• These are Tesla's stunning new solar roof tiles for homes (Tech Crunch)
• Global consumers are no longer willing to pay full price for clothing (Quartz)
• Inside America's most sustainable supermarket (Food and Wine)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why are department stores so scared of Halloween (Business of Fashion)
• Improv-da: How Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater (The Baffler)
• Frozen food comes in from the cold (Bloomberg)
• Grocers feel chill from millennials (WSJ)
• Whole Foods eyes millennials with meal delivery test (Fortune)
• U.S. retailers should pay attention to Lidl and Aldi's big problems in Ireland (Forbes)
• New technique may prevent the gruesome death of billions of male chicks (WaPo)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Coca-Cola is fighting to keep its sales from becoming a casualty of the sugar wars (Forbes)
• Blue Apron is on pace for more than $1 billion in sales as it preps for an IPO (recode)
• Heineken puts faith in its seasoned CEO to take on AB InBev Goliath (WSJ)
• Competition Bureau ramps up probe into Loblaw pricing practices (Globe and Mail)
• Use social influences to be a better manager (Stanford)
• One of retail's most recognizable logos and the Minneapolis PR man who created it (Adweek)
• Internal Amazon documents reveal a vision of up to 2,000 grocery stores across the US (Business Insider)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Shoppers Drug Mart formally applies to distribute medical marijuana (CBC)
• In Marlboro country, a big-money race for the new smoke (Bloomberg)
• What books inspired famous startup founders (Equities)
• Managing the bots that are managing the business (MIT SMR)
• Deal making preserves Coors clan as American beer dynasty (WSJ)
• Grocery e-tailer Satvacart attracts more angel investment (VC Circle)
• Uber self-driving truck packed with Budweiser makes first delivery in Colorado (Bloomberg)
• Online grocery shopping comes to Metro (CG)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Meet the billionaires of Thailand's Red Bull fortune (Bloomberg)
• Philly was the first major US city to pass a soda tax. The mayor has advice for others (Vox)
• One of the most popular fruit crops in the world could be decimated by disease (Business Insider)
• It's time to think about flowers like we do about produce (Wired)
• How an analytics mindset changes marketing culture (HBR)
• Walmart insider says 'heartbreaking' amount of food dumped in trash (CBC)
• Blue Apron's winding road to an IPO (PYMNTS)
• No, content isn't king (Gadfly)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The year ahead 2017: Retail (Bloomberg) 
• This is why you shouldn't believe that exciting new medical story (Vox)
• Push my buttons: Experiments in automated consumption (Economist)
• The many challenges of CPG and retail startups (Collaborative Fund)
• To Amazon and Wal-Mart, big data and small data are one and the same (Forbes)
• The weird economics of Ikea (fivethirtyeight)
• Watch out Wal-Mart. Amazon is coming after the grocery business (Bloomberg) 

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How 'Cage-Free' hens live (NYT)
• Why grocery stores are pushing packaged foods to the perimeter (Canadian Grocer)
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (WaPo)
• Tesco fires opening salvo at Sainsbury's in Christmas toy battle (Bloomberg)
• Aldi is fixing a major weakness and coming straight for Whole Foods (Business Insider)
• Alibaba launches 'Singles Day' promotions three weeks early (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• MOFAD City - Stories behind the way America eats today (Eater)
• Tesco boss: 'Food price inflation could be lethal for struggling millions' (The Guardian)
• Make it easier for happy customers to buy more (HBR)
• Pizza, the unsung agent of the robot revolution (Ars Technica)
• Business solutions that help cut food waste (Harvard)
• Is Amazon's "Last Mile" the "Last Straw" breaking retailers' backs? (Robin Report)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The quest for quality in fresh-food retailing (MQ)
• Why Doctors Without Borders refused a million free vaccines (The Atlantic)
• Western Europe's consumer-goods industry in 2030 (MQ)
• Let's not kill performance reviews yet (HBR)
• Men not at work (Brookings)
• Walmart is now letting you stream a bunch of movies for free - with ads (Business Insider)
• Sainsbury's boss Mike Coupe: It is nonsensical to doubt Argos acquisition (Marketing Week)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• America now has 1.2 billion pounds of excess cheese - and nowhere to put it (Vox)
• Coty adds a touch-up deal (Bloomberg)
• What Walmart's pay-rise experiment says about the future of low-wage work (Economist)
• The return of the avocado as a luxury item (The Atlantic)
• Betting on zero-based budgeting's trifecta (Bain)
• Beware the little-known "spillover" effect of online ads (Stanford)
• Tesco price dispute sends Unilever brand perceptions tumbling (Marketing Week)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How did Walmart get cleaner stores and higher sales? It paid its people more (NYT)
• How Target and Amazon are changing the rules of retailing (Knowledge@Wharton)
• What's healthy? What's natural" (The Atlantic)
• Is salmon jerky the next million-dollar snack food (Bloomberg)
• PepsiCo sets global target for sugar reduction (Reuters)
• Wells Fargo's textbook case of botched crisis management (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Marmite-gate is over: Unilever ends dispute with Tesco, says products will be 'fully available' (The Telegraph)
• Inside the secret, backroom deals big brands make to vie for control over grocery stores (Quartz)
• Creating good jobs at a Texas grocery chain (MIT)
• Succession "losers": What happens to executives passed over for the CEO job? (Stanford GSB)
• Hershey CEO Bilbrey to retire in July, stay as non-executive chairman (Reuters)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon to expand grocery business with new convenience stores (WSJ)
• Wal-Mart, Kroger strive to counter Amazon's grocery challenge (WSJ)
• Molson Coors plans to bring more beers to Canada with Miller acquisition (The Globe and Mail)
• Sainsbury's to take on department store look in fight against discounters (The Guardian)
• Nestle just snatched up another big biopharma exec in its health care push (Fortune)
• Hidden in plain sight (The Robin Report)
• One of America's biggest meat companies just invested in vegan burgers (Vice)
• The Impossible Foods burger heads west (Tech Crunch)
• Tesco removes Marmite and other Unilever brands in price row (BBC)
• Food prices are dropping. Restaurant prices aren't (WaPo)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The dizzying grandeur of 21st-century agriculture (NYT)
• Liquid assets: How the business of bottled water went mad (The Guardian)
• A fresh take on supply chain innovation (MIT SMR)
• Global e-commerce grocery market has grown 15% to 48bn (Kantar)
• Modern retail supply chains: Backbone for omnichannel (Bain)
• Walgreens differentiates customer experience with beauty enthusiast (Loyalty360)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Honeycrisp was just the beginning (Vox)
• Making data analytics work for you (MQ)
• Wal-Mart and Flipkart: A grocery giant in the making? (Bloomberg)
• Unilever's 'People Insights' approach to understanding the customer (AMA)
• The role of IOT in the evolving retail landscape (Robin Report)
• Whole Foods sets up shop in low-income neighbourhoods (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Stop trying to sound smart when you're writing (HBR)
• Wal-Mart forecast disappoints as McMillon overhaul continues (Bloomberg)
• Why zero-based budgeting is shaking up the food sector (just-food)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Best Global Brands 2016 Rankings (Interbrand)
• Food prices are falling. How are customers benefiting? (WaPo)
• What it takes to build a data-driven customer insights approach (CMO)
• Clayton Christensen has a new theory (WSJ)
• Unilever: The biggest digital start-up in the world? (Econsultancy)

Stephan's Post-Wild Card Picks

• Touch 'em all, Edwin! (ESPN)

Stephan's Tuesday Reads

• Blue Apron is on pace for more than $1 billion in sales as it preps for an IPO (Recode)
• Wal-Mart's CIO on the retailer's push into online grocery shopping (WSJ)
• Lidl is coming: 12 reasons U.S. retailers should care (Forbes)
• Customer loyalty in the age of big data (Knowledge@Wharton)
• The 'insight-driven business': How to become a master of the data universe (Enterprise Tech)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Gut feeling: new CEO to steer Nestle down uncharted health path (Reuters)
• Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut? (MQ)
• PepsiCo's practical application of supply chain resilience strategies (Forbes)
• Using "digital footprints" to predict consumer motivation online (RTInsights)
• M&S's deafening silence (Bloomberg Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The end of meat? (FP)
• Grocery prices are plunging (Bloomberg)
• The future belongs to the bold (Deloitte)
• The Provigo son returns (CG)
• A food tax leads to healthier choices (HBR)
• The coffee wars (WSJ)
• Global payments 2016 (BCG)

Inaugural Stephan's Picks:

• Private labels a tool in battle with Amazon (Globe and Mail)
• Quantum grocery picking and transfer learning (Ars Technica)
• Selling in the age of Distraction (Accenture)