Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sunrise Records owner scoops up former DavidsTea leases, plans to launch competing tea stores (Globe and Mail)
• The three building blocks of successful customer experience transformations (McKinsey)
• Aritzia's Jennifer Wong built a fashion empire by leading with style - and plenty of substance (Globe and Mail)
• J.C. Penney enters asset purchase agreement with Brookfield, Simon (Reuters)
• From the archives (2006): Starbucks economics: The mystery of the 'short' cappuccino (Slate)