Stephan's Monday Picks

• How do you make a Halloween costume? A lot of data and a little luck (WSJ)
• Solving Shopify's misery (Globe and Mail)
• Justice Department probes how poultry companies pay farmers (WSJ)
• Amazon returns to growth but signals slowness ahead (NYT)
• The fantasy of instant delivery is imploding (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Coca-Cola keeps raising prices, driving profits higher (NYT)
• How Hershey beat the market meltdown (WSJ)
• A&W CEO Susan Senecal won't let a recession slow down the burger chain's expansion (Globe and Mail)
• TikTok creators are reinventing the scathing restaurant review (Bon Appetit)
• From the archives (2013): Why Rona turned to a grocer in its search for a cleanup CEO (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Bed Bath & Beyond tries to turn itself around, again (NYT)
• Rising shipping costs prompt businesses to get creative with deliveries (WSJ)
• Transforming the EU retail and wholesale sector (McKinsey)
• How confidence is weaponized against women (HBR)
• Jagmeet Singh thinks he knows why food prices are rising. He's wrong (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons (Matt Stoller)
• Lego fanatics come apart over new packaging (WSJ)
• Canada's Competition Bureau to study grocery sector as inflation hits shoppers (Globe and Mail)
• NYC restaurants aren't about to give up outdoor dining (Curbed)
• How food powers your body (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: My least favourite business book of all time (Medium)
• When a country's cuisine becomes a cultural export (NYT)
• Social commerce: The future of how consumers interact with brands (McKinsey)
• Beyond Meat rolls out a steak substitute in Walmart, Kroger stores (WSJ)
• Consumer giants keep raising prices as profits come under pressure (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Women in the workplace 2022 (McKinsey)
• Instacart is said to pull plans to go public this year (NYT)
• Nestle to acquire Seattle's Best coffee brand from Starbucks (WSJ)
• Why the price of vegetable oil has spiked more than other food items (CBC)
• How to shop amid inflation and supply chain challenges (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Third Point takes stake in Colgate-Palmolive, urges pet food spin-off (Reuters)
• The mysterious rise of food allergies (Vox)
• Kroger-Albertsons antitrust review likely to focus on local store overlap (WSJ)
• The fast food stars of TikTok (The New Yorker)
• From the archives (2009): (Re)making a name in No Name (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon's October attempt at Prime Day falls flat, analysts say (WSJ)
• An activist investor has a garbage plan for Coca-Cola (Semafor)
• Instacart cuts its valuation for a third time to $13 billion (Bloomberg)
• A salt-loving nation tries to shake the habit (WSJ)
• Retailers, brands, and tech platforms bet big on live-streamed shopping in the U.S. (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Loblaw to freeze prices on No Name products until end of January amid spiking inflation (Globe and Mail)
• Secret menus and online order hacks are out of control (Eater)
• Why food keeps getting more expensive (Vox)
• Poland eyes grocer as it takes back control of economy (Bloomberg)
• Kroger-Albertsons merger would create a big player in retail media (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The precision modern company (Medium)
• Unlocking Loblaw Digital's next phase of growth (Medium)
• Amazon abandons autonomous home delivery robot tests in latest cost cuts (WSJ)
• The economics of Costco rotisserie chicken (The Hustle)
• The great post-Covid online shopping bet was a costly delusion (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Presenting about data to your board: 6 tips from experts (MIT Sloan)
• Howard Schultz's fight to stop a barista uprising (Washington Post)
• Retailers kick off Black Friday in October again, this time with too much stuff (WSJ)
• Are reward points over, now that retailers can charge credit card transaction fees (Globe and Mail)
• Kroger to buy Albertsons in $24.6 billion deal (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Digital twins: The foundation of the enterprise metaverse (McKinsey)
• Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors (MIT News)
• Engaging with history (Collaborative Fund)
• The Canadian wheat odyssey (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2008): Pomegranate princess (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The state of grocery retail around the world (McKinsey)
• Paying with a credit card will soon cost more as some businesses add transaction fees (Globe and Mail)
• Ben & Jerry's vs Unilever: How a star acquisition became a legal nightmare (FT)
• That reusable Trader Joe's bag. It's rescuing an Indian industry (NYT)
• Look at all the money Cargill made (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy & sunshine (Medium)
• Delivery startup Getir in advanced talks to buy Gorillas (Bloomberg)
• Burger King's new U.S. CEO seeks to restore chain's luster (WSJ)
• The oat milk backlash begins (Eater)
• Processed food was linked to 1970s inflation. Today's health savvy Canadians are finding other cheap options (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Hungry and confused: The winding road to conscious eating (McKinsey)
• 'I am energy': Inside the Bang billionaire's reeling empire (Bloomberg)
• Why don't grocery stores stock the most American fruit (The Atlantic)
• You must respect candy corn (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw puts self-driving delivery trucks on Canadian roads for the first time (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Loblaw expects e-commerce grocery shopping to 'grow significantly' (Globe and Mail)
• Costco not ready to cut prices as commodity, shipping costs fall (WSJ)
• House committee to probe big grocers' profits, prolonging industry's PR problem (Financial Post)
• Mint chocolate on fried chicken? A food craze has everyone taking sides (WSJ)
• From the archives (1991): Tracking Robert Campeau's spectacular fall (Maclean's)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why everyone is suddenly slamming energy drinks (WSJ)
• Butter boards are spreading across TikTok (NYT)
• Retail real estate is enjoying its biggest revival in years (WSJ)
• Liquid Death water startup valued at $700 million (Bloomberg)
• What will management look like in the next 100 years (HBR)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Owner economics and strategy (Medium)
• F.D.A moves to change 'healthy' food definition (NYT)
• Americans struggle with high food prices (WSJ)
• Amazon freezes corporate hiring in its retail business (NYT)
• Unilever urged to seek outside chief after Alan Jope tenure (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why bosses should ask employees to do less - not more (WSJ)
• Backing Lindt, Swiss court orders Lidl to 'destroy' its chocolate bunnies (NYT)
• Indigo's new CEO plans to sell $450 pizza ovens and collagen face mists at the bookstore (Globe and Mail)
• Useless meetings waste time and $100 million a year at big companies (Bloomberg)
• Our food system could have been so different (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• What is inflation (McKinsey)
• How about them apples? Research orchards chart a fruit's future (NYT)
• Why plant-based meat's sizzle fizzled in the U.S. (The Guardian)
• Unilever CEO Jope to retire at end of 2023 after GSK setback (Bloomberg)
• Kroger announces 2022 fall food trends (Kroger)