Stephan's Friday Picks

• How crying on TikTok sells books (NYT)
• How a Russian retailer is building a next-generation grocery retailer (McKinsey)
• What Walmart can learn from Tesco's failed banking experiment (Bloomberg)
• Pasta has a new shape (NPR)
• From the archives (2013): At Rona, a hands-on CEO grapples with a turnaround (Globe and Mail)