Stephan's Friday Picks

• Crocs are cool again (Bloomberg)
• Uber adds app to prompt food-delivery orders (WSJ)
• The dos and don'ts of dynamic pricing in retail (McKinsey)
• Amazon raising pay for hundreds of thousands of workers (WSJ)
• From the archives (2013): Paul Sobey's patient and painstaking approach to building an empire (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• WV's assessment of healthcare customers (Wittington Ventures)
• Inflation pressure hits consumers as firms pass along higher costs (Globe and Mail)
• Apple and Google are killing the ad cookie. Here's why (Bloomberg)
• This online grocery site lets you filter online retailers by their values (Fast Company)
• Walmart expands delivery to your fridge, pandemic be damned (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The strategy-analytics revolution (McKinsey)
• DoorDash allows restaurants to choose commissions in post-pandemic world (WSJ)
• Toward a more resilient consumer supply chain (McKinsey)
• How thrifting became problematic (Vox)
• With no frills of celebrities, Cookpad is a global go-to for recipes (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Manipulation of quantities and appreciation of qualities (Medium)
• Is Deliveroo killing restaurant culture (The Guardian)
• Restaurants serve up signing bonuses, higher pay to win back workers (WSJ)
• The dark side of our age of fitness (The New Statesman)
• Port of Montreal  hit by dock workers strike (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• They hacked McDonald's ice cream machines - and started a Cold War (Wired)
• There's a new organic food that fights global warming (Bloomberg)
• As shopping habits change, Ottawa targets credit card swipe fees (Globe and Mail)
• Online grocers race to offer New Yorkers faster deliveries (WSJ)
• The ghosts of Brooks Brothers (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How the pandemic changed, and didn't change where Americans move (NYT)
• Lululemon to launch resale pilot for shoppers to buy, sell used items (CNBC)
• Seafood: Consumer goods' latest catch (McKinsey)
• Uber Eats expands to Germany, will take on Just Eat Takeaway (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2013): Metro's loss of turnaround expert Sawyer is Rona's gain (Financial Post)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The state of the plant-based food industry (Vox)
• Why is fashion talking about regenerative farming (NYT)
• Herman Miller to buy Knoll in $1.8 billion in workplace bet (Bloomberg)
• Gap is taking its Athleta workout brand to Canada (CNBC)
• Amazon does haircuts now (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What the demise of cookies and third-party identifies means to digital advertising (McKinsey)
• The quality of your coffee may soon be determined by a robot (Bloomberg)
• Oprah-backed Oatly files for IPO (WSJ)
• Walmart+ usage is hampered by customer confusion, survey says (Bloomberg)
• Mall department stores are struggling. The pandemic has pushed them to the edge of extinction (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: It's time to accept that marketing and strategy are one discipline (Medium)
• Supermarkets' revival skips the top private label brand (WSJ)
• China's Ant explores way for Jack Ma to exit (Reuters)
• Walmart invests in autonomous car startup Cruise (Bloomberg)
• Canadian Tire and Loblaw pay out millions in bonuses to top executives after COVID-19 sales boom (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The resurrection of MEC (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon plans furniture assembly service to catch Wayfair (Bloomberg)
• Why the convenience industry is getting a massive makeover (Financial Post)
• After a decade, jeans move from skinny to loose (NYT)
• Impossible and Beyond slash prices as fake meat market heats up (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders (Amazon)
• To thrive from here, Tesco needs to keep delivering (FT)
• FOMO will drive workers back into the office (Bloomberg)
• How Amazon strong-arms partners using its power across multiple businesses (WSJ)
• From the archives (2007): Weston civilization (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The $14B rise of rapid grocery delivery services (FT)
• Kroger is amassing a robot army to combat Amazon, Walmart (Bloomberg)
• Maximizing the value of customization (McKinsey)
• Your diet is cooking the planet (The Atlantic)
• How the pandemic is reshaping the snacking occasion (Food Dive)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Retail magnate W. Galen Weston dies at age 80 (Globe and Mail)
• Has the era of overzealous cleaning finally come to an end (NYT)
• Covid growth turns online grocery profitable (FT)
• Post-pandemic summer vacations are coming (The Atlantic)
• The pandemic was a game changer for the CPG industry. Who won, and what's next (BCG)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: It's time to toss SWOT analysis into the ashbin of strategy history (Medium)
• The forgotten shipping pallet stages a pandemic-era rally (Bloomberg)
• Are you confused by scientific jargon? So are scientists (NYT)
• McDonald's is closing hundreds of its Walmart restaurants (WSJ)
• Have we taken agile too far (HBR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The sandwich economics of the Masters and Augusta National (NYT)
• Why giant jeans are making a comeback (WSJ)
• China fines Alibaba record $2.8 billion after monopoly probe (Bloomberg)
• Ontario retailers adjust to new rules, non-essential goods off-limits to shoppers (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon workers vote down union drive at Alabama warehouse (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Instacart and DoorDash plan to launch their own credit cards (WSJ)
• Annie's Mac and Cheese is based in the Bay Area, but Annie is not. Here's her story (SF Gate)
• The mysterious case of the f*cking good pizza (Vice)
• The future of of the $1.5 trillion wellness market (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2010): What's true versus what's new (Fast Company)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• After vaccination, Americans are rushing to salons and spas (The Atlantic)
• DoorDash drivers game algorithm to increase pay (Bloomberg)
• Maple syrup making also boomed as a pandemic hobby (NYT)
• Shoppers start to see effect of higher commodity costs (WSJ)
• Walmart's Flipkart aims for IPO in fourth quarter, sources say (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Remote work is overrated. Supercities are coming back (Vox)
• The new shortage: Ketchup can't catch up (WSJ)
• The importance of 'omnichannel' strategies (The Economist)
• COVID-19 re-wrote the rules of shopping. What's next (WSJ)
• Drive-throughs that are predicting your order? Restaurants are thinking fast (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Can you be both cost leader & differentiator (Medium)
• Scandal, lawsuits, and cultural upheaval at McDonald's (Fortune)
• Retailers seen closing thousands of stores, even after the pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Craftmanship: The key to developing talent in an agile organization (McKinsey)
• The anchoring effect (St. Louis Fed)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The protein transformation (BCG)
• Amazon explored opening home goods, electronics discount stores (Bloomberg)
• Those Cosmic Wings you had delivered, they're really from Applebee's (WSJ)
• Americans have $1.7 trillion to burn in revenge spending binge (Bloomberg)
• A pasta factory in Brooklyn (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How the pandemic made lamb more popular with Americans (Bloomberg)
• The emerging markets e-commerce opportunity (Brookings)
• GDP tops estimates in 'pleasant surprise' (Globe and Mail)
• Experience design is the future of retail (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2018): How the acquisition of Grocery Gateway prepared Longo's to compete in the digital age (Maclean's)