Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• When naming a new product, make it easy to pronounce. But not always (WSJ)
• Jury holds CVS, Walgreens and Walmart responsible for role in opioid crisis (CNBC)
• Sugar industry merger challenged by U.S. Justice Department (WSJ)
• 10-minute grocery delivery startup to buy UK rival Weezy as buzzy market enters consolidation (CNBC)
• PEI farmers warn of devastation after Canada halts fresh potato exports to U.S. due to fungus outbreak (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How unboxing elaborate packages became an American pastime (The Atlantic)
• The packaging mistakes companies make - and why they make them (WSJ)
• In Brampton, a growing army of home cooks offer customers hungry for Indian food a taste of home (Globe and Mail)
• Why do prices keep going up and what's the cause of inflation (WSJ)
• Restaurant owners say they have the answer to the current labour shortage: Better pay, benefits, and balance (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The godmother of 'plant-based living' (NYT)
• The most exclusive restaurant in America (The New Yorker)
• The Amazon lobbyists that kill U.S. consumer privacy protections (Reuters)
• How companies raise prices without raising prices (WSJ)
• From the archives (2012): U.S. based Chobani seen as threat to local makers (National Post)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Roger Martin: The secret to knitting strategy together corporate-wide (Medium)
• Monster Beverages said to explore deal with Constellation (Bloomberg)
• George Weston's third-quarter profit down as it sells Weston Foods business (Globe and Mail)
• Everything is a multivitamin (The Atlantic)
• Best Buy forecasts holiday sales below estimates as supply issues loom (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The U.S. supply chain crisis is already easing (Bloomberg)
• Supply chain problems show signs of easing (WSJ)
• More than 100 retailers, including Lululemon, at high risk of having forced-labour cotton in supply chains (Globe and Mail)
• The OPEC of maple syrup taps its stockpile to make sure your pancakes are covered (Bloomberg)
• Shopify's retail platform susceptible to fake reviews, report finds (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Bottlenecks: Causes and macroeconomic implications (BIS)
• Mattress maker Casper to be taken private by private equity firm (CNBC)
• Net promoter 3.0 (HBR)
• Unilever to sell Lipton Tea owner to CVC Capital for $5 billion (Bloomberg)
• Starbucks and Amazon team up on first store (Fast Company)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Ten steps retailers can take to shock-proof their supply chains (McKinsey)
• The worst of both worlds: Zooming from work (NYT)
• Tim Hortons parent RBI buying Florida-based Firehouse Subs for $1-billion (Globe and Mail)
• Toronto food banks record highest number of visits ever during pandemic (CBC)
• Retailers rethink holiday ads amid digital marketing upheaval (CNBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The value of getting personalization right - or wrong - is multiplying (McKinsey)
• Roger Martin: Stop letting OKRs masquerade as strategy (Medium)
• Ocean shipping rates fall but ports are still jammed (WSJ)
• Cannabis beverages were supposed to be the next big thing. So why are sales slow (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2011): The Flexner Report - 100 years later (NCBI)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• These online grocers want to make it easy for you to shop sustainably (WSJ)
• Chinese city Dalian halts frozen food trade after COVID-19 cases (Reuters)
• IOT value to accelerate through 2030. Where and how to capture it (McKinsey)
• Mondelez sees online snack-shopping boom lasting beyond pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Food inflation pushes up pot roast prices in Canada (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The year America's hair fell out (The Atlantic)
• Competition Bureau chief readies for fight to shake up merger laws (Financial Post)
• First step for the Teamsters' next boss: Take on UPS (Bloomberg)
• Seeing the world through a grain of rice (NYT)
• Dollar General to do same-day deliveries via DoorDash (The Verge)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The truth about those dollar stores (Consumer Reports)
• How the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science (The Guardian)
• The myth of the high-growth fashion startup (Fast Company)
• Johnson & Johnson to split consumer, pharmaceutical businesses, creating two companies (WSJ)
• The pantry's rise to most fashionable space in the kitchen (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Retailers pull back on clogged supply chains (Globe and Mail)
• Swedish supermarket ICA to go private at $12.5 billion valuation (Bloomberg)
• Panera Bread set to return to public market (WSJ)
• How Big Data turned graph theory into new dimensions (Wired)
• DoorDash to acquire food delivery company Wolt for $8 billion (Tech Crunch)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Is soaking dishes worthwhile? Yes. Sometimes (Washington Post)
• 15-minute grocery delivery has come to NYC. Not everyone is happy (NYT)
• The shortness of time (Farnam Street)
• Consumers trade rib-eye for ground beef as prices rise (WSJ)
• From the archives (1989): I have made over 1,000 pieces of sushi a day. Now I have sushi elbow (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy and [re]organization (Medium)
• Medicine's wellness conundrum (The New Yorker)
• World's fairs made burgers and ice cream cones a hit - now Saudi chicken nuggets (WSJ)
• Meat prices will continue to surge if meatpackers can't find workers fast (Bloomberg)
• The great organic food fraud (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• TikTok fans brew even more complicated orders at Starbucks (WSJ)
• Judge denies celebrity chef Mark McEwan's restructuring plan (Globe and Mail)
• Hot streaks in your career don't happen by accident (The Atlantic)
• Small businesses boxed out by Walmart, Target, and other big box retailers (Washington Post)
• How British food, long a source of national shame, became exhilarating (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• For fashion brands, green is the hardest colour to sell (WSJ)
• Paul Polman on business as a force for good (McKinsey)
• How restaurants can win back customers (WSJ)
• Amazon reinstates Canadian retailers after mass suspension tied to shipping policy (Globe and Mail)
• How the son of a grocer from Lac St-Jean landed in the centre of Canada's biggest food fight (Financial Post)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Supermarkets play supply chain 'whack-a-mole' to keep products on shelves (WSJ)
• Maple Leaf Foods says its reassessing its plant protein business (Globe and Mail)
• How direct-to-consumer brands can continue to grow (HBR)
• Why McDonald's looks sleek and boring now (Vox)
• The untold story of sushi in America (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Are there enough strawberries in a Kellogg's Strawberry Pop-Tart? A court might decide (WSJ)
• Why strawberries turn a ghostly shade of white (NYT)
• Banana price war in UK supermarkets is hurting farmers, growers warn (The Guardian)
• The plexiglass barrier problem (Maclean's)
• From the archives (2018): The unknown entrepreneur who built UPS (American Business History Center)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Farm gate milk prices to be increased (Canadian Dairy Commission)
• An undersung trailblazer of Indian cooking (The New Yorker)
• How Mars Wrigley is pursuing growth in emerging markets (McKinsey)
• How cheesecake-to-go saved The Cheesecake Factory (WSJ)
• Carrefour raises climate goals and targets 2040 carbon neutrality (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Turnover contagion: The domino effect of one resignation (BBC)
• Investigation into bread price-fixing scheme isn't over (Financial Post)
• What makes a cultural superpower (Noahpinion)
• China targets vegetable hoarders as spinach surges 157% (Bloomberg)
• How to make your loyalty program pay off (HBR)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The role of industry in strategy (Medium)
• Coca-Cola to pay $5.6 billion for full control of BodyArmor (WSJ)
• Tesco and Gorillas join forces to test 10-minute delivery service (The Guardian)
• The megaships that broke global trade (WSJ)
• The 37-year olds are afraid of the 23-year-olds that work for them (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Stores to customers. You're already behind on your Christmas shopping (WSJ)
• The Great Canadian Savings puzzle (RBC)
• Arcaea: Re-imagining the beauty industry through expressive biology (Wittington Ventures)
• Big retailers becoming big property owners with warehouse deals (WSJ)
• How Mondelez Canada kept up with the change in Canadians' eating habits during the pandemic (Globe and Mail)