Stephan's Friday Picks

• The beloved Filipino tradition that started as a government policy (The Atlantic)
• Retailtainment: A deep dive into the new shopping experiences (Medium)
• How COVID-19 disrupted global value chains (St. Louis Fed)
• Sustainable business went mainstream in 2021 (HBR)
• From the archives (2015): How bad will it get for American Express (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Roger Martin: Competing against big new entrants (Medium)
• How Shopify outfoxed Amazon to become the 'Everywhere Store' (Bloomberg)
• Should retailers split e-commerce from stores? A high-level debate (WSJ)
• Marketplaces Year in Review 2021 (Marketplace Pulse)
• Retailers look to open more stores in 2022 after purging weak stores during the pandemic (CNBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kellogg workers ratify a revised contract after being on strike since October (NYT)
• The pet food shortage is real, and owners are scrambling (WSJ)
• Return-to-office chaos is the best thing to happen to consultants since Y2K (Bloomberg)
• Self storage is the pandemic's hot property (WSJ)
• Canadian retailers have 'turned over every stone' for talent to cope with seasonal rush amid labour shortage (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• When bigger isn't always better (McKinsey)
• 27 courses, very little edible: Review of Michelin-starred restaurant goes viral (Today)
• Think Santa is busy? Ham sniffers are pushing their noses to the limit (WSJ)
• How recycling food could help save the planet (Maclean's)
• From the archives (2008): Can you say what your strategy is (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Open-air shopping centers are leading retail's recovery (WSJ)
• Retail's battle with Covid actually saved its stores (Bloomberg)
• Rite Aid to close at least 63 stores in coming months (CNBC)
• That fun TikTok video? It's actually an ad (NYT)
• Going out to eat in the age of the shrinking menu (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Is strategy a zero-sum game (Medium)
• Former McDonald's CEO repays company $105 million (NYT)
• Can indoor farms reach skyscraper height (Bloomberg)
• Pantone's 2022 colour of the year has a lot of competition (WSJ)
  
• What Google's top-trending food searches signal for the food industry (The Food Institute)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why managers fear a remote-work future (The Atlantic)
• Do you know where your sweater came from (NYT)
• More people quit to take a new job from an old boss (WSJ)
• How Shein beat Amazon at its own game (Rest of World)
• Shoppers' online choices transform retail (C.D. Howe Institute)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: How to make your partnerships more strategic (HBR)
• Corner stores are the new darlings of the tech industry (The Atlantic)
• The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut (Washington Post)
• Deadly collapse at Amazon warehouse puts spotlight on phone ban (Bloomberg)
• How fear of disruption, 'free money', and the lure of alts profits drove record M&A (Institutional Investor)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The key to marketing to older people? Don't say old (NYT)
• Canadian inflation hits 30-year high as Omicron threat looms (Globe and Mail)
• Asian grocery stores slammed with Port of Vancouver backlogs (Financial Post)
• Holiday supply chain concerns drive some Canadians back into shopping malls (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2019): Do your data scientists know the 'why' behind their work (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The ESG mirage (Bloomberg)
• In the Mountain West, the 'dirty soda' craze is on (NYT)
• Branding the billion-dollar dark stores (Bloomberg)
• Nestle trims L'Oreal stake with $10 billion sale (Reuters)
• The Amazon empire strikes back (Stratechery)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How the supply chain crisis unfolded (NYT)
• Grocery delivery startup Jokr explores sale of European business (Bloomberg)
• Marc Lore plots U.S. expansion of food delivery business (CNBC)
• The dark side of 15-minute grocery delivery (Bloomberg)
• Italy fines Amazon record $1.3 billion for abuse of market dominance (Reuters)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Canada's Food Price Report 2022 (Dalhousie University)
• What does ultrafast delivery really cost us (The Guardian)
• The era of the celebrity meal (NYT)
• Creating a better leaf (The New Yorker)
• Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to leaders: Put away your phones and listen to your employees (HBR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: The lost art of strategy (Medium)
• Amazon's grocery battle isn't what you think (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens lines up Goldman Sachs to explore options for UK Boots sale (FT)
• Kohl's urged to consider sale by activist investor (WSJ)
• Coming soon: Faux-meat burgers made from maggots and mealworms (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How this all happened (Collaborative Fund)
• What I learned eating from 8,000 Chinese restaurants (BBC)
• How to meet customers' needs in uncertain times (BCG)
• Addressing the sleep loss epidemic through technology (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2003): A laboratory of taste (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Supreme Court rules in favour of Loblaw in matter of Glenhuron Bank (Supreme Court of Canada)
• When same-day delivery is too slow (Bloomberg)
• Thefts, always an issue for retailers, become more brazen (NYT)
• How to fix Britain's failing food system (The Guardian)
• Gift cards a popular holiday option as amid ongoing pandemic concerns and supply chain snafus (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Lina Khan's battle to rein in Big Tech (The New Yorker)
• Organized retail thefts continue over Thanksiving weekend (WSJ)
• Consumer goods companies must transform their planning - from end to end (McKinsey)
• Walmart delivers your stuff - one small item at a time (WSJ)
• Selfridges set for £4B sale to Thai retail giant (BBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Canada Goose goes viral in China for all the wrong reasons (Globe and Mail)
• E-Commerce needs real store locations now more than ever (WSJ)
• A tale of culinary reconciliation, beside the Eiffel Tower (NYT)
• P&G recalls antiperspirants after cancer-causing chemical found (WSJ)
• Port of Vancouver descends into distress as B.C. flooding severs rail lines, highways (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: Singing the data analytics blues (Medium)
• The shifting CPG market in a diversifying Asia (McKinsey)
• Europe went bananas for Gorillas. Then its workers rose up (Wired)
• What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet (Nature)
• Amazon's strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Peter Buck, co-founder of the Subway sandwich chain, dies at 90 (NYT)
• Improving strategic outcomes with advanced analytics (McKinsey)
• The sensibility of Ssense (NYT)
• How to reduce post-harvest crop losses in the agricultural supply chain (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2015): How Big Food is using natural flavours to win consumer flavour (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Rami Atallah's $5 billion online luxury fashion retailer only the coolest kids know (Globe and Mail)
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - and 2019 (WSJ)
• A diaper entrepreneur's take on when to bring in help (Bloomberg)
• Fiestaware is cool again but the brand can't make enough for the holidays (WSJ)
• The supply chain crisis, explained (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Keeping Lidl's shelves stocked is harder than ever, says U.K. boss (The Guardian)
• For some recipe apps, your personal data is gravy (Washington Post)
• Best Buy tumbles as increased theft worsens margin squeeze (Bloomberg)
• Rebecca McKillican took over thousands of pharmacies - just in time to help lead the vaccine rollout (Globe and Mail)
• The great huckleberry supply crunch (Bloomberg)