Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Startups make it easier to get ADHD drugs (WSJ)
• The flip side of large M&A deals (McKinsey)
• What the research says about intermittent fasting and weight loss (Globe and Mail)
• Carl Icahn targets Kroger over pork, CEO pay (WSJ)
• The secret to keeping ice cream creamy (not crunchy) might be plant-based nanocrystals (Ars Technica)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Exploiting analogy (Medium)
• Asda faces legal wrangle with Waitrose over Just Essentials range (The Guardian)
• Fashion retailers race to become ad giants (BoF)
• Canada's grocers remove Russian products from shelves (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart stops selling cigarettes in some stores (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Six strategic priorities for modern merchant leaders (McKinsey)
• She was a candidate to lead Levi's. Then she started tweeting (NYT)
• How to get the most out of your couponing (CBC)
• All that's stopping a full-blown food crisis? Rice (Bloomberg)
• Chris Cocks is Hasbro's gamer in chief (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Forecasting the future of stores (McKinsey)
• Online brands try a traditional marketing strategy: physical stores (NYT)
• Instacart slashes its valuation by 40% to $24 billion (Bloomberg) 
• Rapid delivery gets some Insta-validation (WSJ)
• Shopping in the metaverse could be more fun than you think (CNet)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The pillowy magic of milk bread (NYT)
• Amazon comes up with a big no sale in India (Bloomberg)
• How Emily Nunn turned salad into a soapbox (NYT)
• Cattle ranchers take aim at meatpackers' dominance (WSJ)
• From the archives (2019): When Jacques Pepin made all the world an omelet (Taste)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Elliott-backed group weighs increasing offer for Nielsen (WSJ)
• There's no global shopping mall (NYT)
• How leading companies use machine intelligence (McKinsey)
• After Covid-19 made Americans better tippers, inflation could change that (WSJ)
• CP Rail to restart operations after arbitration agreement (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Getir is now worth $12 billion after it raises another $768 million (Tech Crunch)
• Nielsen rejects $9 billion takeover offer from private equity consortium (WSJ)
• Toronto, the quietly booming tech town (NYT)
• Alibaba stock spikes 11% after it ups its repurchase plans (CNBC)
• What if working in your sweatpants unleashed your superpowers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Models we use and get used by (Medium)
• Why rising inflation could lead to a wave of strikes and lockouts (Globe and Mail)
• Instacart CEO is 'worried' about the impact of inflation on food prices (Bloomberg)
• Inflation could squeeze dollar stores, too (WSJ)
• Work stoppage at Canadian Pacific prompts fears of more supply-chain woes (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Sycamore and Hudson's Bay prepare Kohl's bids (WSJ)
• How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town (FT)
• How to get groceries without using much gas (Bloomberg)
• Putting the 'A' back in SG&A (McKinsey)
• Amazon closes MGM deal after regulators decline to oppose it (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Starbucks CEO retires, and Howard Schultz steps in in the interim (NYT)
• Online grocer Boxed has the right packaging (WSJ)
• Canada's inflation rate hits new three-decade high as price pressures broaden (Globe and Mail)
• Shoppers reach their limits on some price increases (WSJ)
• From the archives (2018): Here's how Cornell scientist Brian Wansink turned shoddy data into viral studies about how we eat (Buzzfeed)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart announces new tech hubs in Toronto and Atlanta (WSJ)
• Italy is losing its prized olive trees (Bloomberg)
  
• Covid exposed the cracks in the US food system - meet the people trying to fix them (The Guardian)
• People are quitting full-time jobs for contract work - and making six-figures (WSJ)
• Behind the Entenmann's cellophane, a slice of Long Island life (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Galen G. Weston sets out on a new vision for Loblaw (Globe and Mail)
  
• Oatly's growing pains trip up pioneer of oat milk (WSJ)
• 2022 and beyond for the packaging industry's CEOs (McKinsey)
• Meal kit companies flourished early in the pandemic, but are struggling now (Washington Post)
• Jeff Bezos is heading to space and partying on earth while Amazon faces a host of challenges (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Understanding the true building blocks of corporate strategy (Medium)
• Loblaw is buying Lifemark Health in biggest move yet to expand presence in healthcare services (Globe and Mail)
• How Ambani outfoxed Amazon in a $3.4 billion deal dispute (Bloomberg)
• The joy of cooking blasphemous fusion food (The New Yorker)
• Do you still love the Walkman (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The real environmental impact of the fashion industry (Bloomberg)
• McDonald's ice cream woes have inspired memes, mockery, and now a financial lawsuit (NYT)
• Chobani executives depart as yogurt-maker delays IPO (WSJ)
• The case for induction cooking (NYT)
• Grocery startup Fridge No More shutters in failed DoorDash deal (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon is turning grocery picking gig workers into Whole Foods employees (CNBC)
• Making Ukrainian pierogi roots me to my family tree (Washington Post)
• The gold rush for India's superapp (Fortune)
• McCain foods halts plans for Russia plant (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (1976): Entenmann's keeps focus on quality (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Once obscured in the U.S, Lao cooks share and celebrate their cuisine (NYT)
• Welcome to Only Fans for the food world (Vanity Fair)
• Bacon, gas, and essentials. Where Americans have noticed inflation (NYT)
• How to compete with Shein (BoF)
• Amazon jumps on stock split, plan to buy back up to $10 billion (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• New Zealand supermarkets given three years to boost competition (Bloomberg)
• How war in Ukraine drives up inflation at U.S. farms and supermarkets (WSJ)
• Kohl's plans to open smaller shops and aims to make Sephora a $2 billion business (CNBC)
• Lululemon, which grew rapidly in pandemic, will soon offer shoes (NYT)
• Amazon acquires Veeqo, a startup that helps companies manage their business online (CNBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Corporate vs business unit strategy (Medium)
• Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen takes large stake in Bed, Bath & Beyond, pushes for changes (WSJ)
• Ryan Cohen's letter to the Board (RC Ventures)
• Uniqlo owner pledges to stay in Russia as wave of companies exit (Bloomberg)
• The Navy SEAL-ification of Nerf (Intelligencer)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon under investor pressure over tax transparency (FT)
• Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies (McKinsey)
• Why we need to expand our crop menu (BBC)
• The US is experiencing a food renaissance (Quartz)
• How the home pantry get cheffy (Eater)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• There's not enough extra Canadian wheat to fill global shortfall (Bloomberg)
• First The Gap, then chain drugstores and branch banks. Now comes the next retail cycle: Nothing (Curbed)
• Amazon set to close bookstores, other shops in shift to grocery and fashion (WSJ)
• Grocery prices rise in UK at fastest rate in eight years (The Guardian)
• From the archives (2017): Customer loyalty is overrated (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Have we reached peak plant milk? Not even close (NYT)
• Walmart pushes new delivery services for a post-pandemic world (WSJ)
• Edward Lampert retires as Seritage chair as REIT explores options (Bloomberg)
• Bank of Canada raises policy interest rate (Bank of Canada)
• Five ways to adapt pricing to inflation (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Here comes the full Amazonification of Whole Foods (NYT)
• How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff (The Hustle)
• Albertsons launches strategic review (WSJ)
• Flashfood raises $12.3 million to scale its app (Tech Crunch)
• Safeway, FreshCo workers in Manitoba vote in favour of strike (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Warren Buffet's 2021 Letter to Shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway)
• Roger Martin: How to get buy-in for your strategy (Medium)
• A little noticed reason workers quit: Too little work (WSJ)
• Pet Valu announces acquisition of Chico, Quebec's largest pet specialty retailer (Newswire)
• Target is raising its minimum wage to $24 in some markets (WSJ)