Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Aritzia's new CEO on the retailer's future (Globe and Mail)
• The discount retailer taking over America (Forbes)
• Silk is pitching the next generation of plant-based milk. Why isn't it made in Canada (Financial Post)
• India's protectionist moves spark concerns that rice could be next (Bloomberg)
• Global brands seek clarity on Xinjiang (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dollar stores keep passing the buck (WSJ)
• Instacart to slow hiring to focus on profitability ahead of IPO (Bloomberg)
• McDonald's shareholders vote down Carl Icahn's activist board slate (WSJ)
• Gimmicky Gorillas (FT)
• Getir, Zapp join delivery startups cutting staff, consolidating (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The tech transformation imperative in retail (McKinsey)
• Advisory firms oppose Shopify proposal to lock in voting stake for CEO Tobias Lutke (Globe and Mail)
• The plant-based future of food doesn't always taste great (Vox)
• Inside Charm Industrial's big bet on corn stalks for carbon removal (MIT Technology Review)
• From the archives (2010): The Bay's Bonnie Brooks' lifelong quest to be the best (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Canada is facing a terrible food crisis, says Michael McCain (Globe and Mail)
• Marketing in the metaverse: Opportunity for experimentation and innovation (McKinsey)
• Gorillas to cut staff in search for profit (Reuters)
• Starbucks to sell juice brand as coffee chain focuses on its stores (WSJ)
• Geographies of grocery shopping in major Canadian cities: Evidence from large-scale mobile app data (School of Cities)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Egypt's bread crisis awakens old fears of political unrest (WSJ)
• Shrinkflation is happening on grocery store shelves. What it is, and how to avoid (CBC)
• In the fresh food business, a middleman can be a good thing (NYT)
• To build supply chain resilience, manage proactively (McKinsey)
• Why has the CPI inflation calculation changed over time (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The design school advantage (Medium)
• Guy Fieri, elder statesman of Flavortown (NYT)
• As inflation soars, Canadians living on social assistance describe sinking deeper into poverty (Globe and Mail)
• Does your mayo need a mission statement (WSJ)
• Federal NDP's claim of grocery store price gouging doesn't check out (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The state of grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Leave the sweatshirt at home. Dining dress codes are coming back (NYT)
• Forget bottles. Cans are here to stay, Ontario beer drinkers (CBC)
• Where's the beef? New lawsuit asks McDonald's and Wendy's that very question (WSJ)
• From the archives (2009): The pragmatic fashionista (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Target shares sink more than 20%, after company says higher costs, inventory woes hit profit (CNBC)
• Walmart profits drop, dragged down by higher costs for food and fuel (NYT)
• The baby formula shortage has birthed a shadowy online marketplace (MIT Technology Review)
• Why Chinese sellers are quitting Amazon (Rest of World)
• New Zealand challenges Canada over dairy imports (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Macy's wins over underserved market: Black sororities (Bloomberg)
• After 32 years, McDonald's plans to sell its Russia business (NYT)
• Walmart anticipates a store manager shortage, despite $200,000-a-year pay (WSJ)
• Abbott reaches agreement with FDA to reopen baby food plant (CNBC)
• Flink snaps up France's Cajoo for ~$93M, takes fresh Carrefour funding, sources say at $5B (Techcrunch)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Information technology & strategy (Medium)
• Wings, sweat, and tears (Eater)
• Advantage Tesco in the UK grocery wars (Bloomberg)
• Goodbye to the golden era of customer choice (FT)
• Canadians are sitting on $300 billion in excess savings. What happens next is anyone's guess (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Gillette embraced the beard to win over scruffy millennials (Bloomberg)
• The good news about food delivery (NYT)
• Why convenience stores are still worth sparring over (FT)
• The key to retaining young workers? Better onboarding (HBR)
• How to stay cool as competition heats up for ice cream and yogurt (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Instacart takes a big step towards a public offering (NYT)
• TikTok's current self-soothing trend is watching strangers re-stock their fridges (Eater)
• The baby formula shortage could last months (WSJ)
• Tesco pilots in-store flexible work space (The Guardian)
• From the archives (2017): The troubled history of horse meat in America (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Jokr starts advertising business in profit push (Bloomberg)
• How the inflation rate is measured. 477 government workers at grocery stores (WSJ)
• Big Meat is gobbling up fake meat companies (The Guardian)
• Pinky Cole's Slutty Vegan just got a $25 million boost (Washington Post)
• Canadian farmers feeling the pressure of soaring fertilizer prices ahead of a crucial planting season (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Weird ice cream flavours stir up discord (WSJ)
• Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse (NYT)
• Tyson Foods prices soar as meat prices climb (WSJ)
• UK's Morrisons clinches deal for convenience chain McColl's (Reuters) 
• IKEA to open more downtown stores, retool big-box sites for online orders (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategic breadcrumb spacing (Medium)
• A nationwide baby formula shortage worsens (NYT)
• Rogers, Shaw vow to fight competition watchdog's plan to block deal (Globe and Mail)
• Is the Dirty Shirley the drink of the summer (NYT)
• How restaurants are hacking the food delivery system (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Climate sustainability in retail: Who will pay (McKinsey)
• Sustainability in retail is possible - but there is work to be done (BCG)
• Why is it so hard to control our appetites (The Guardian)
• Plant-based meat groups in court battle over taste of their products (FT)
• Edward Iacobucci - The Competition Bureau's approach to the efficiencies defense (CD Howe Institute)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Fast, cheap, and out of control. Inside Shein's rise (Wired)
• When you live in remote Alaska, your Doordash order comes by plane (Food & Wine)
• Makers of Dawn dish soap, Heinz Ketchup, Clorox, boost defenses against store brand rivals (Reuters)
• Quebec maple syrup company Bernard & Fils aims to tap into global market with Bain Capital's takeover (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2000): The tire queen gets a flat (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Michael McCain steps down as CEO of Maple Leaf Foods (Globe and Mail)
• Carl Icahn pushes McDonald's to expand meatless options (Bloomberg)
• Macy's is betting even bigger on smaller stores (WSJ)
• Loblaw profit jumps nearly 40 percent even as inflation drives up costs (Globe and Mail)
• How some big grocery chains ensure that food deserts remain barren (The Counter)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The era of cheap and plenty may be ending (NYT)
• Facing a wheat crisis, countries race to remake an entire supply chain on the fly (WSJ)
• Shopify earnings outlook sinks as ecommerce worries mount (Globe and Mail)
• The art of the possible in ecommerce and beyond (McKinsey)
• Uber partners with Tesco for fast grocery delivery in the U.K. (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Getting it done (Medium)
• Navigating inflation: A playbook for CEOs (McKinsey)
• Instacart searches for a direction as its pandemic boom fades (NYT)
• For Instacart shoppers, the job is getting harder, slower (WSJ)
• Hershey CEO Michele Buck on empowering internal change agents (HBR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Mattel has held talks with buyout firms (WSJ)
• Vietnamese restaurants reach for fast-food success (NYT)
• The next horizon for grocery e-commerce: Beyond the pandemic bump (McKinsey)
• Convenience store giants Couche-Tard, EG Group in deal talks (WSJ)
  
• Toronto's first family of cheese (Toronto Life)