Stephan's Thursday Picks

• C2C e-commerce: Could a new business model sell more old goods (McKinsey)
• Dollar Tree soars on buyback, plans to sell items for more than a buck (Bloomberg)
• The inside baseball of corporate transformation (Rita McGrath)
• The supply chain mystery (The New Yorker)
• Port of Vancouver sends record number of empty shipping containers to Asia (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Why do strategy anyway (Medium)
• The new marketing model for growth (How CPGs can crack the code) (McKinsey)
• Amazon's Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels (The Verge)
• For flagging Amazon Games unit, New World 'has to be a breakthrough' (NYT)
• Workers are putting on pants to head to the office only to be on Zoom all day (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• UK supermarket prices to rise by 5% as supply chain costs increase (The Guardian)
• Madewell, ThredUP test secondhand store in Brooklyn (WSJ)
• Suburbia's bittersweet allure (Vice)
• Faux meat falters at the drive-thru (Bloomberg)
• Europe's grocery delivery startups deliver frantic summer of deal-making (FT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why does beef cost so much (The Atlantic)
• Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for (National Geographic)
• The return of empty shelves and panic buying (Bloomberg)
• America's meat supply is cheap and efficient. Here's why that's a problem (Politico)
• How Good Fat Co. managed to appeal to customers by embracing the f-word (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Lululemon replaces Hudson's Bay as the official clothier of Team Canada at the Olympics and Paralympics (Globe and Mail) 
• The race to stop fishing from becoming the next factory farming nightmare (Wired)
• General Mills shows food is still glorious (WSJ)
• DoorDash is exploring dark store services for groceries (Grocery Dive)
• From the archives (1968): Notes on cravings (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The rapid evolution of food delivery (McKinsey)
• Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire (Toronto Life)
• Britain tells its food industry to prepare for a CO2 price shock (Reuters)
• Inside Amazon's department store plans (WSJ)
• Buying into a more sustainable value chain (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why everybody's hiring but nobody's getting hired (Vox)
• Offices are useful for soft work, not hard work (The Atlantic)
• Lululemon says Mirror CEO is stepping down (CNBC)
• Why deliveries are so slow (The Atlantic)
• What is horchoffee, and why is it so controversial (Grub Street)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy and transformation (Medium)
• Restaurants increase wages and offer signing bonuses (NYT)
• Vending machine steaks and sausages become butcher's pandemic success (Bloomberg)
• The new science on how we burn calories (NYT)
• Restaurants across Canada face labour shortages as growing number of hospitality workers leave industry (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How 26 millions pounds of American fish got stuck in Canada (WSJ)
• Why do companies have so many managers (The Atlantic)
• Food fraud and counterfeit cotton (The Guardian)
• The $70 billion prize in personalized offers (BCG)
• The great shortage (Eater)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• A leader in the cultured meat industry envisions the future (McKinsey)
• Who is driving the Great Resignation (HBR)
• Ford, Walmart, and Argo AI team up to offer autonomous vehicle delivery service (Reuters)
• Inside the brutal realities of supply chain hell (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2002): A sandwich (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Getir tops $1 billion in fundraising this year with latest deal (Bloomberg)
• Lessons from the rise and fall of the pedestrian mall (CityLab)
• Inflation hits 18-year high, fuelled by pandemic factors (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: It's still early days for us in media (CNBC)
• Why retail loves 'Buy now, pay later' (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Revolt of the delivery workers (The Verge)
• The Black consumer: A $300 billion opportunity (McKinsey)
• Ikea charters ships to combat bare shelves from U.S. to Germany (Bloomberg)
• Brick-and-mortar retail in the age of Covid, and Amazon (NYT)
• Kroger and Instacart launch 30 minute delivery (Kroger)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy in the face of discontinuity (Medium)
• The effect of remote work on collaboration among information workers (Nature)
• Workers want to do their jobs from anywhere and keep their big-city salaries (WSJ)
• Mattel dusts off He-Man, with a nod to to diversity (NYT)
• Cooking oil binge has world's biggest canola reserves plunging (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The Sweetgreen CEO's cruel, dangerous plan (The Atlantic)
• Food delivery companies sue New York City over fee caps (WSJ)
• Will we ever get a clear idea over what foods we should eat (Aeon)
• Topo Chico's sudden success (NYT)
• Amazon to launch its own TVs in push to cement itself in living rooms (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Plant-based food companies expand, with consumers hungry for more (NYT)
• Making the great attrition the great attraction (McKinsey)
• Vast expansion in aid kept food insecurity from growing last year (NYT)
• Redrawing Asia's consumer map (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2019): The man who discovered umami (BBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How eating out has changed, from the menu to the tip (NYT)
• $10B battle for Morrisons goes to auction (Reuters)
• The long game of DTC and e-commerce (McKinsey)
• What makes us love the pain of hot peppers (WSJ)
• The clever science behind frozen ramen (BBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The battle for the soul of strategy (Medium)
• Ikea is launching a furniture buy-back program (Fast Company)
• Instacart goes deeper into digital advertising as grocery delivery slows (WSJ)
• Wittington Ventures: Food loss and waste - Part I (Medium)
• U.S. grocers prepare for possible snack shortages as Mondelez workers strike (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Amazon CEO unveils 55,000 tech jobs in his first hiring push (Reuters)
• Walmart to offer grocery delivery to parts of New York City (WSJ)
• Ben Dugan works for CVS. His job is battling a $45 billion crime spree (WSJ)
• Couche-Tard struggling to find enough staff as COVID-19 resurgence looms (Globe and Mail)
• McDonald's McFlurry machine is broken (again). Now the FTC is on it (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Understanding the ever-evolving, always-surprising consumer (McKinsey)
• Dumpster diving for discount desserts behind the Entenmann's outlet (Food & Wine)
• Marc Lore wants to build a utopian megalopolis (Bloomberg)
• The new status fridge is a hidden from view (NYT)
• From the archives (2019): Home Depot's CFO on how the retail giant returned to health (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The shy sisters behind Austin's breakout breakfast tacos (NYT)
• Gap expands Athleta athleisure brand into Canada in first move outside U.S. (Globe and Mail)
• Americans are stocking up on toilet paper again (WSJ)
• Grocery store sticker shock hits consumers as drought takes toll on crops (CBC)
• Ending prices with '.99' can backfire on sellers (Ohio State)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Yandex buys Uber out of food delivery, self-driving venture (Bloomberg)
• Private equity companies all want the same thing: British companies (NYT)
• Starbucks workers in Buffalo seek union vote (NYT)
• Allbirds files for IPO, reveals losses (CNBC)
• Online bed enthusiasts are making DIY mattresses (Vice)