Stephan's Friday Picks

• Ultrafast grocery delivery has exploded in New York City. Your city could be next (CNBC)
• The ghost stores of Instagram (Vox)
• Why is everyone else quitting (NYT)
• The 'Great Resignation'? It's not happening in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2020): How Erewhon became everybody's favourite grocery store hot spot (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The charm of making foods you usually buy (WSJ)
• The great retail reset (Institutional Investor)
• U.S. dairy cows too expensive to feed, causing herds to plummet (Bloomberg)
• Tesco website and app back up after hack attempt (BBC)
• Instacart needs to ring up grocers in store (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Reviving the art of apprenticeship to unlock continuous skills development (McKinsey)
• Canadian retailers take to the skies to mitigate holiday supply chain woes (Globe and Mail)
• Where did all the shipping containers go (WSJ)
• America's ports problem is decades in the making (Cato Institute)
• George Weston to sell bakery business for $1.2 billion (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The rule of fear and the fears of rule (Medium)
• Sweetgreen files to go public, plans to double footprint within 5 years (CNBC)
• Eco-friendly sneaker maker Albirds aims for $2 billion valuation (Reuters)
• Worried about the supply chain? Stop buying so much stuff (The Atlantic)
• Inside Amazon's epic fight for power in India (Reuters)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Desperate for workers, restaurants turn to robots (NYT)
• Alibaba faces new threat: An evolving Chinese customer (WSJ)
• Instacart acquires smartcart maker Caper AI for $350 million (Tech Crunch)
• Which metrics really drive total return for shareholders (McKinsey)
• Food delivery apps have knives out as pandemic boom fades (Reuters)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Rapid grocery delivery will keep investors waiting (Reuters)
• Canada's COVID-19 benefits are set to expire on October 23. Here's what you need to know (Globe and Mail)
• Trader Joe wrote a memoir (The New Yorker)
• Economist, former federal advisor urges Ottawa to ignore business lobby, shut down wage subsidy (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2008): Store brands lift grocers in troubled times (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Great Resignation is accelerating (The Atlantic)
• Plant-based food companies face critics: Environmental advocates (NYT)
• Jana Partners takes stake in Macy's urges spinoff (WSJ)
• Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote own brands (Reuters)
• Supply chain fears ramp up in Canada, U.S. ahead of holiday shopping season (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Battling our same:different instinct (Medium)
• Toy retailer Camp takes over Toys 'R' Us location as it puts experiences to the test (CNBC)
• Instacart 'shoppers' baffled by shrinking paycheques (CBC)
• Next in loyalty: Eight levers to turn customers into fans (McKinsey)
• Uber is exploring ways to tap into Europe's rapid grocery delivery boom (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• All the supply chain nightmares came today (Bloomberg)
• L.A. port to operate around the clock to ease logjams (WSJ)
• What is Europe's most popular speedy grocery app (Sifted)
• L.O.L dolls are lost in the supply chain. John Baker must free them (WSJ)
• Baby bust: How the Covid-19 pandemic re-shaped family planning (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The durable goods spending boom is heading for a slowdown (Bloomberg)
• The return-to-office quandary (The New Yorker)
• The scariest part of Halloween this year is the supply chain (WSJ)
• Amazon delivery partners rage against the machine (Bloomberg)
• Zellers returns - kind of - but the lowest prices aren't quite the law (CBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Dude, where's my stuff (J.P. Morgan)
• The digital future of manufacturing consumer packaged goods (McKinsey)
• New research busts popular myths about innovation (WSJ)
• The nasty logistics of free returns (The Atlantic)
• From the archives (2012): Q&A with Daniel Debow (Toronto Life)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Biggest U.S. retailers charter private cargo ships to sail around port delays (WSJ)
• Nature shows how this all works (Collaborative Fund)
• Another truth about work from home (The Atlantic)
• Strategy for a digital world (McKinsey)
• America is running out of everything (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How CPGs can sell online profitably (McKinsey)
• What America's port crisis looks like up close (NYT)
• Netflix to sell 'Squid Game' goods, other products on Walmart site (WSJ)
• Carrefour's latest deal miss shows consolidation is hard (Bloomberg)
• The unlikely rise of French tacos (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Restaurants spend big for upgraded outdoor dining (WSJ)
• Supply chain havoc is getting worse (Vox)
• China's tech antitrust campaign snares food delivery giant Meituan  (NYT)
• Chobani CEO is using his yogurt empire to resettle Afghan refugees (Fast Company)
• The world's 50 best restaurants: 2021 (Eater)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Lululemon launches Mirror in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Indra Nooyi on the truth of corporate responsibility (NYT)
• What's the point of 15-minute grocery delivery (Vice)
• The future of French farmers are tech-savvy, and want weekends off (NYT)
• From the archives (2019): The female chef making Japan's most elaborate cuisine her own (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Andy Jassy says the company could do more to treat workers better (CNBC)
• PepsiCo juggles strong demand and supply chain challenges (WSJ)
• Robots take over Italy's vineyards as wineries struggle with labour shortages (WSJ)
• Canada's smallest canola harvest in 13 years forces importers to turn elsewhere (Globe and Mail
• Dick's Sporting Goods' new CEO: Being a female leader is a huge asset (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Nobody really knows how the economy works (NYT)
• Rent the Runway files for IPO (CNBC)
• Clothing retailers boost profit margins by offering fewer markdowns (WSJ)
• Supply chain snarls delay books (NYT)
• Online ordering is ruining lunch for the rest of us (Slate)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The time to buy your holiday presents is now (Wired)
• Will remote workers get left behind in the hybrid office (NYT)
• Pandemic's Peloton obsession turns to Peloton fatigue (WSJ)
• The rush to save Christmas reaches peak shipping-season frenzy (Bloomberg)
• Mark McEwan's restaurant and gourmet foods business files for creditor protection (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dollar stores hit a pandemic downturn (NYT)
• U.S. firm wins auction to take over Morrisons (BBC)
• Warby Parker soared in its market debut (CNBC)
• The cotton tote crisis (NYT)
• Experts warn of high level of chemicals in clothes by some fast fashion retailers (CBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside America's broken supply chain (Washington Post)
• Macy's sues Amazon over billboard at flagship store (NYT)
• Carlyle, Calpers in ESG data push for $4 trillion of funds (Bloomberg)
• Goodbye to the 'office mom' (NYT)
• From the archives (1972): Eating crawfish in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana (The New Yorker)