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)