Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The world's biggest public companies (Forbes)
• Why ex-Canadian Tire CEO Michael Medline is the man to fix Sobeys (Canadian Business)
• Metro considers switching from Air Miles over consumer backlash (Globe and Mail)
• Target plans to introduce its own smartphone payment service in stores later this year (Recode)
• Much of the cuisine we now know, and think of as ours, came to us by war (Smithsonian Mag)