Stephan's Friday Picks

• 10 restaurant and food predictions for 2023 (NYT)
• Behind Michael Medline's fierce defense of  profitable grocers (Financial Post)
• Consumers change food delivery habits (WSJ)
• Don Christopher, who turned lowly garlic into a household staple, dies at 88 (NYT)
• From the archives (2013): Why a trader named after a Bond villain could make your cappuccino cheaper (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy, choice, and the road not taken (Medium)
• He's an outspoken defender of meat. Industry funds his research, files show (NYT)
• Restaurant staffers are returning to work after Covid flight (WSJ)
• Fast food, grocery chains sued over mobile-ordering patents (Bloomberg)
• Misleading ads fueled rapid growth of online mental health companies (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation proof toys in American history (NPR)
• Delivery drivers can't find your house number (WSJ)
• In Amsterdam, a mostly vegan, all-cashmere feast (NYT)
• Target recalls over 200,000 children's weighted blankets after two girls die (NYT)
• Shoplifting fuels a $94.5 billion problem at American stores (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Capital allocation: Results, analysis, and assessment (Morgan Stanley)
• Amazon agrees to settle EU antitrust cases, avoiding fines (WSJ)
• Inflation rate drops to 6.8% as gas got cheaper - but food keeps getting more expensive (CBC)
• Hundreds of Tyson Foods employees expected to depart as company closes offices (WSJ)
• From the archives (2016): Want to be a better leader? Observe more and react less (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Retail spending in Canada shows signs of slowdown (Globe and Mail)
• Dollar stores lead a surge in new store openings (WSJ)
• Manufacturing, importing of straws and other single-use plastics now banned in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• You're at the office and so are the unwanted holiday goodies (WSJ)
• Once considered a no-no, Canadians are turning to second-hand gifts amid inflation and high prices (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Designing jobs right (HBR)
• Walmart's plastic bag ban leaves some customers saddled with mounds of reusable bags (CBC)
• Retailers and the terrible, horrible, not bad, pretty good holidays (WSJ)
• Where corporate governance still falls short (Globe and Mail)
• Mondelez sells gum business to Perfetti in $1.35B deal (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Striving to follow the Golden Rule (Medium)
• Foodtastic acquires Freshii at a fraction of its IPO value five years ago (Globe and Mail)
• How self-checkouts failed to live up to their promise (The Guardian)
• How Panettone became a must-have for the holidays (Globe and Mail)
• Who controls Panettone? The gold rush is on (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy (Vox)
• Shopify scraps big Toronto move, dealing blow to office market (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon signs deals with Games Workshop for Warhammer 40k films (Bloomberg)
• Malls welcomed dogs. The results have been ruff (WSJ)
• Empire takes $25-million hit as cyber attack disturbs operations (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Budweiser salvaged its World Cup (NYT)
• Canadian debt payments climb at record pace as interest payments rise (Globe and Mail)
• Supermarkets offer more store brands to lure cost-conscious customers (WSJ)
• The state of grocery in Southeast Asia (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2019): P&G puts its focus on reach (Marketing Week)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Your wallet is being drained by subscriptions. Wall Street thanks you (WSJ)
• Hospitality lessons from a Michelin-starred restauranteur (McKinsey)
• Is Moore's Law actually dead this time (Ars Technica)
• European food delivery shapes up with Getir's Gorillas buy (Reuters)
• Why is Howard Schultz taking a Starbucks union so personally (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Stores do double duty as distribution centers for online orders (WSJ)
• Designing out of difficult times (McKinsey)
• The price of 'sugar free' (The Guardian)
• Rapid-delivery startup Getir buys rival Gorillas in $1.2 billion deal (Bloomberg)
• Costco sales growth cools as customers shift discretionary spending (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Why 'execution' is a bankrupt management concept (Medium)
• In defense of IRL shopping (The Atlantic)
• Activist Loeb may seek board changes at Bath & Body Works (Bloomberg)
• How retailers in Europe are navigating inflation (McKinsey)
• UK supermarkets launch Christmas price war with 19p veg offer (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon launches TikTok-style feed in push to accelerate social shopping (WSJ)
• Fuel made from ramen, dishes from coffee grinds: Japan rethinks food waste (Washington Post)
• Unilever weighs $3 billion US ice cream brands sale (Bloomberg)
• New York passes sweeping bills to improve conditions for delivery workers (NYT)
• Egypt's soaring bread prices are chewing a hold in the unsubsidized lower middle class (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• FTC asks Kroger for more information on Albertsons deal (WSJ)
• Dollarama hikes sales forecast as high inflation drives shoppers to seek cheaper groceries, household goods (Globe and Mail)
• Secrets of the Christmas tree trade (Curbed)
• Black Friday status dims as sales in stores fall short (WSJ)
• From the archives (1995): Dwayne's world (Mother Jones)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Bank of Canada raises rate 50bps to 4.25% - but opens the door to staying there (CBC)
• Goldman's guide to the rest of your life (FT)
• Murray's Cheese opens 1,000th shop within Kroger stores (Kroger)
• Indoor lettuce farm Goodleaf gets backing from two Canadian heavyweights to expand nationally (FP)
• Rising thefts at Walmart could lead to price jumps, store closures, CEO says (CNBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• PepsiCo to lay off hundreds of workers in headquarters roles (WSJ)
• MPs call for grocery CEOs to face questioning over rising food prices (Globe and Mail)
• Why Christmas trees could cost more this year (NYT)
• The secret diary of a Tesco manager (The Guardian)
• The role of the chief transformation officer (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Canada's Food Price Report 2023 (Dalhousie University)
• Forecasters split on how high Bank of Canada will push next rate hike (Globe and Mail)
• Fashion in the metaverse: What avatars are wearing (WSJ)
• Census shows high rate of undergraduate and college education among Canadians, but complex trends lie behind it (Globe and Mail)
• Ad firms predict slower advertising growth in 2023 (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why markdown pricing matters more than other (McKinsey)
• Cutting-edge tech made the Netherlands a major food exporter (Washington Post)
• What kind of man was Anthony Bourdain (The Atlantic)
• What are whole grains, anyway (NYT)
• Amazon's quest for the holy grail of robotics (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• State of Fashion 2023 (McKinsey)
• Food commodities are getting cheaper - unlike groceries (WSJ)
• Inside Amazon's quest to seize the skies (Wired)
• PepsiCo's Mauro Porcini talks meaningful design and mentorship (McKinsey)
• From the archives (1979): Jimmy Pattison is feeling like his old self again (Maclean's)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Nestle may sell allergy unit in health strategy U-turn (Bloomberg)
• Alexa, is the voice assistant industry doomed (CBC)
• Amazon wants to review your sleep (NYT)
• Why Christmas trees are scarce and more expensive this year (CBC)
• Dumpster diving to shame stores and fight waste (NYT)