Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Curating meeting experiences (Medium)
• How Barnes & Noble came back from near dead (NYT)
• Bed Bath & Beyond's woes prompt landlords to line up new tenants (WSJ)
• Unilever names former Heinz exec Schumacher as CEO (Reuters)
• Amazon raises price minimum for free online grocery delivery (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Supermarket freezers are heating up the planet, and how they could change (CBC)
• Americans are gobbling up takeout food. Restaurants are betting that won't change (WSJ)
• The decline of the nice-to-have economy (WSJ)
• How onions became a luxury in the Philippines (BBC)
• Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he's a philanthropist (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why does every boutique grocer looks the same (Grub Street)
• Bed Bath & Beyond says banks have cut off their credit lines (WSJ)
• With layoffs, retailers would rather be safe than sorry (NYT)
• Home Depot gave personal data to Meta without valid customer consent, privacy watchdog says (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2016): Welcome to Hillstone, America's favourite restaurant (Bon Appetit)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Consumers tired of inflation scrimp - and splurge (WSJ)
• Renaissance in uncertainty: Luxury builds on its rebound (Bain)
• The coffee alternative Americans just can't leave behind (The Atlantic)
• Metro says more price hikes to come as vendors continue asks for increases (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart raises starting wages for store workers (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kroger-Albertsons merger faces long road before approval (NYT)
• Consumer prices plateau as inflation slows to pre-pandemic levels (WSJ)
• Food firms raising prices unnecessarily, says Tesco's John Allan (BBC)
• Canada's opportunity to be a global food superpower (Policy Magazine)
• The corporate cafeteria is broken. So how to feed workers (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Being 'too busy' means your personal strategy sucks (Medium)
• Amazon axes 'Smile' charity program, citing limited impact (NYT)
• How Noma made fine dining far worse (The Atlantic)
• Inside the battle for the future of Amazon (Vox)
• The secret world of Japan's robot sushi chefs (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Fake meat was supposed to save the world. It became just another fad (Bloomberg)
• Fort Walgreens (Curbed)
• Lidl and Aldi hiked prices the most of supermarkets in UK (Bloomberg)
• Party City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to cut debt (WSJ)
• AI for better crops (Knowable Magazine)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Activist investor Ryan Cohen takes stake in Alibaba and pushes for more stock buybacks (WSJ)
• Sainsbury's signs food delivery deal with Just Eat (The Guardian)
• Shopper rebellion against higher prices helps slow inflation (WSJ)
• The latest TikTok star is canned tuna (WSJ)
• From the archives (1949): Pizza (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The long takeoff of skyrocketing food prices (Globe and Mail)
• How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat (BBC)
• How Aritzia became the hottest fashion chain in the U.S. (Bloomberg)
• How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting (Popular Information)
• The next green revolution: How Canada can produce more food with fewer emissions (RBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Shareholder advocates take aim at climate plans as proxy season begins (Globe and Mail)
• Subway explores sale that could value sandwich chain at more than $10 billion (WSJ)
• Inflation peaking is great for us, terrible for grocery stores (Washington Post)
• You don't know how bad the pizza box is (The Atlantic)
• Starbucks' new CEO has tall orders to fill (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Sticking with strategy (Medium)
• As gig economy companies flee Europe, Getir is taking over (Wired)
• Canada's cities see immigration-driven population surge after pandemic lull (Globe and Mail)
• The 'buy-now, pay-later' bubble is about to burst (The Atlantic)
• Bed Bath & Beyond's collapse draws suitors for Buybuy Baby (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Shoppers snap up cheap, landfill-destined groceries through apps like Flashfood (Globe and Mail)
• French food giant Danone sued over plastic use in landmark law (NYT)
• What matters to today's consumer (Capgemini)
• Babies 'R' Us attempts comeback in New Jersey (CNBC)
• Joint statement on the development of Canada's first-ever grocery code of conduct (Government of Canada)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything (Taste Atlas)
• Must we gentrify the rest stop (NYT)
• The plastic problem (NYT)
• What can we learn from Barnes & Noble's surprising turnaround (Honest Broker)
• From the archives (2021): What's the difference between Morton's and Diamond Crystal kosher salt (Food52)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Noma, rated the world's best restaurant, is closing its doors (NYT)
• The pandemic was good for retailers. What happens next (Bloomberg)
• The price of pasta is surging, but discounts could be next (Globe and Mail)
• UPS and the package wars (The New Yorker)
• Vitamin Shoppe owner Franchise Group considers going private (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The Mediterranean diet really is that good for you. Here's why (NYT)
• Majority of Canadian companies now linking executive pay to ESG (Globe and Mail)
• How one family parlayed Mexican food into a Los Angeles landmark (NYT)
• Preparing for the next generation of activist shareholders (BCG)
• 'Spectacular job report' has economists and credit markets shifting views on the Bank of Canada's next moves (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy is singular (Medium)
• High food prices rile up Canadians (NYT)
• What if inflation suddenly dropped and no one noticed (WSJ)
• Tipping is weird now (The Atlantic)
• 'The brink of famine': Drought puts an entire generation of Somalis at risk (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon layoffs to hit over 18,000 workers, the most recent in tech wave (WSJ)
• How McDonald's won Russia, and then lost it all (Bloomberg)
• A golden age for nonalcoholic beer, wine and spirits (NPR)
• The huge number of craft breweries creates a beer glut (WSJ)
• Your stuff is actually worse now (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon finally authorized Pakistani sellers. A wave of scammers followed (Rest of World)
• Where did all the bargain bourbon go? (NYT)
• Shopify launches new subscription product in bid to lure new retail clients (Globe and Mail)
• Peter Fader and Michael Ross share their playbook for customer centricity (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2004): Morrisons seals Safeway takeover (BBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Syrian family that rebuilt a chocolate empire in Nova Scotia (NYT)
• Aldi sales soar as UK shoppers battle record inflation (CNN)
• Google and Meta's advertising dominance fades as TikTok, streamers emerge (WSJ)
• Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings (Bloomberg)
• How Russia's war on Ukraine is worsening global starvation (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The choreography on the ground that puts meals in the sky (NYT)
• Synthetic meat will change the ethics of eating (WSJ)
• How Canadians got their beloved breakfast cereal back (The Guardian)
• Hangry diners vent over swiped to-go orders (NYT)
• How Central Ohio got people to eat its leftovers (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Benchmarking is for losers (Medium)
• American bargain hunters flock to a new platform forged in China (WSJ)
• The future of retail in the age of convergence (Bain)
• Can climate labels on menus turn people off cheeseburgers (Bloomberg)
•  How the checkout line became a 'maze' to fuel impulse purchases (CBC)