Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Buffets are back - but the chocolate fountains are off-limits (WSJ)
• Inside our Subway tuna sandwich test (NYT)
• Fired by bot at Amazon: "It's you against the machine" (Bloomberg)
• Google's plan for the future of work (NYT)
• Amazon demands one more thing from vendors: A piece of their company (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Balancing exploration and exploitation (Medium)
• The economics of dollar stores (The Hustle)
• How a beer giant tackles eaves of Covid-19 around the world (WSJ)
• The hazards of a 'nice' company culture (HBR)
• Re-prioritizing the employee experience for consumer and retail companies (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Can human resources save the restaurant industry from its own toxicity (Vice)
• Food companies say combating climate changes comes with costs (WSJ)
• Remote work won't save the heartland (Brookings)
• White paint is always in style thanks to its canny business model (Bloomberg)
• Marc Lore says brands like Warby Parker and Allbirds can't be replicated by big retailers (CNBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• More than 'just takeout' (NYT)
• Why is it so hard to find craft beer (The Atlantic)
• How farmers and scientists are engineering your food (BBC)
• Cancel Amazon Prime (The Atlantic)
• From the archives (2017): The future of retail in the age of Amazon (Fast Company)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Four ways physical stores can survive (BCG)
• What quitters understand about the job market (The Atlantic)
• In the U.K, it's barbarians at the supermarket (Bloomberg)
• The growth triple play: Creativity, analytics, and purpose (McKinsey)
• Rising food costs add to the woes of pandemic-hit restauranteurs (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Alibaba has invented the supermarket of the future (Wired)
• The thriving business of Ikea-hacking (The Hustle)
• Retail workers are leaving at record rates for higher-paying jobs (Washington Post)
• Beyond Meat sparked a run on peas and a protein revolution (Bloomberg)
• Hudson's Bay turns Saks Off Fifth e-commerce business into standalone company, sells stake for $200 million (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Playing to win & agile (Medium)
• What are we going to wear (NYT)
• After a year of pandemic prudence, Canadians eager to spend billions saved (CBC)
• Eating ice cream is much better than investing in it (Crunchbase)
• U.K. grocer Morrisons faces $7.6 billion takeover battle (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Northern B.C. Walmart to go totally cashier-free in favour of self-checkouts this summer (CBC)
• Supply chain woes, housing fuel highest inflation rate in a decade (Globe and Mail)
• Google to open first retail store, steps away from Apple in NYC (Bloomberg)
• Buyers of Amazon devices are guinea pigs. That's a problem (NYT)
• Wage fixing in Canada: And fairness in the grocery sector (House of Commons)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Oyster farmers who feared growing broke brace for a 'bonkers' summer (NYT)
• When graphs are a matter of life and death (The New Yorker)
• Girl scouts stuck with over 15 million boxes of unsold cookies (NYT)
• Lina Khan, antitrust expert and Amazon critic, will be the chair of the FTC (Recode)
• From the archives (2017): Lina Khan: Amazon's antitrust paradox (Yale Law Journal)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Amazon that customers don't see (NYT)
• Amazon brings its cashierless tech to a full-size grocery store for the first time (The Verge)
• Why Express, Urban Outfitters and J. Crew now sell items from all over online (WSJ)
• How Canadian companies are adjusting to supply chain chaos (Globe and Mail)
• Aritzia expands into men's clothing with purchase of majority stake in Reigning Champ (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• From beans to burgers, food is getting more expensive (WSJ)
• Restaurants press to keep delivery app caps (Globe and Mail)
• Retailers turn to online marketplaces in scramble for sales (FT)
• The rise of on-demand grocery deliveries (The Guardian)
• Chobani eliminates sugar in bid to win over yogurt holdouts (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: It's time to accept that pay for performance doesn't work (Medium)
• A little more remote work could change rush hour a lot (NYT)
• Westons consider $5.7 billion Selfridges sale after approach (Bloomberg)
• How Shein is winning the world's teens and pushing the limits of fast fashion (Bloomberg)
• Grocery courier Boxed to go public in SPAC deal (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Farewell, millennial lifestyle subsidy (NYT)
• The trailblazing consumers in Asia driving growth (McKinsey)
• From appetizers to tuition, incentives for job-seekers grow (NYT)
• The $100 billion media opportunity for retailers (BCG)
• China's race to sell groceries online is getting crowded (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Everyone has a theory about shopping carts (NYT)
• Plexiglass is everywhere, with no proof it keeps Covid at bay (Bloomberg)
• How food trucks endured and succeeded during the pandemic (NYT)
• Montreal e-commerce retailer Ssense sells minority investment to Sequoia (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Private equity shows Supervalu who is the boss (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The state of grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Flipkart is in talks to raise $3 billion (Bloomberg)
• Rome is getting its first vending machine pizza. Will Romans bite (NYT)
• As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite out of Big Meat's burger (Washington Post)
• Climate change might be threatening the future of apples (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Grocers can fuel growth with advanced analytics (McKinsey)
• Montreal plots 'charm offensive' to lure workers downtown (Bloomberg)
• Amazon battles Mukesh Ambani to win India's e-commerce future (NYT)
• Love them or hate them, Crocs are back (Washington Post)
• Canadian furniture retailers appeal tariffs that have tripled some prices (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Asking great strategy questions (Medium)
• Inside IKEA's digital transformation (HBR)
• How delivery apps are driving the automation of India's restaurant kitchens (Rest of World)
• It's hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy (NYT)
• McCain says all its french fries will be made from a farm using regenerative agriculture by 2030 (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Rent the Runway preparing for IPO later this year (Bloomberg)
• Is New York's year of lavish tipping coming to an end (NYT)
• A day in the life of a flavour inventor (BBC)
• Turkish food delivery company Getir raises money at $7.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
• What are you going to wear when you go back to the office (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The pied piper of SPACs (The New Yorker)
• Booze-to-go is here to stay (WSJ)
• How precision revenue growth management transforms CPG promotions (McKinsey)
• Etsy is buying the fashion resale retailer Depop for $1.6 billion (NYT)
• From the archives (2021): Connected health: What's getting us excited at Wittington Ventures (Medium) 

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The great wings rush (The Verge)
• LuxCo 2030: A vision of sustainable luxury (Bain)
• The pizza business is divided on delivery (WSJ)
• What went wrong at Haven (Fortune)
• At-scale holistic transformation in the consumer packaged goods industry (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• For DoorDash and Uber Eats, the future is everything in about an hour (WSJ)
• What hoarding toilet paper means for economic data (Bloomberg)
• How the world ran out of everything (NYT)
• Nestle document says the majority of its food is unhealthy (FT)
• Cyberattack closes JBS meat-packing facilities in Canada, U.S, and Australia (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: From strategy to planning (Medium)
• These health-conscious drinks are not the sugary sodas you grew up on (Bloomberg)
• Digital strategy in the post-pandemic era (McKinsey)
• How Hubert Joly changed Best Buy without everyone hating him (WSJ)
• It's going to be a big summer for hard seltzer (NYT)