Stephan's Friday Picks

• The internet rediscovered Blockbuster's website. Press play on nostalgia (Washington Post)
• The consumerization of healthcare (Fire Ant)
• The 3D culinary revolution is coming (The Guardian)
• MIT researchers twist apart more than 1,000 Oreos in search of perfect method (WSJ)
• From the archives (2007): The fast lane (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Top priorities for dairy executives in 2023 (McKinsey)
• You probably eat twice the recommended salt per day (CBC)
• AMC Entertainment shares jump on report Amazon exploring a deal (Reuters)
• The metaverse is quickly turning into the meh-taverse (WSJ)
• Starbucks bargains in good faith, ex-CEO Schultz tells lawmakers (Reuters)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Uber Eats to take down thousands of virtual brands to declutter the app (WSJ)
• In the age of Ozempic, what's the point of working out (The Atlantic)
• John Lewis partnership will survive for 'decades to come' (FT)
• Confidence (Morgan Stanley)
• Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about food was wrong (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy and leadership #2 (Medium)
• Despite more than 1,000 restaurants in his portfolio, Foodtastic CEO Peter Mammas is hungry for more (Globe and Mail)
• The retail pharmacy of the future (McKinsey)
• Tuesday's budget to include grocery rebate for lower-income Canadians (CBC)
• Skinny design: Smaller is better (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The chaotic, dispiriting work of liquidating Harmon stores (NYT)
• After eight years, Domino's Pizza gives up on Italy (Bloomberg)
• Activist hedge fund pushes for fuel giant Parkland Corp. to be broken up (Globe and Mail)
• How companies can build an institutional capability to achieve competitive advantage (McKinsey)
• Starbucks new CEO trained as barista to prepare for role (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How millennials accidentally saved America's feet (The Atlantic)
• The 'everything shower' goes way beyond shampoo and conditioner (WSJ)
• Shack Shack to come to Canada in 2024 with first location set for Toronto (Globe and Mail)
• Strains emerge inside the union that beat Amazon (NYT)
• From the archives (2006): $75,000 a case? He's buying (LA Times)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why Air Miles needs more than just a new owner to appeal to customers (CBC)
• Subscription services are hitting their limit with customers (Bloomberg)
• Shrinkflation deals a surprise ice cream tax to customers (Globe and Mail)
• The secret behind Japan's delicious strawberries: kerosene (NYT)
• Starbucks's new CEO, Laxman, Narasimhan, takes coffee chain's helm (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• McDonald's faces franchisees decrying 'destructive path' (Bloomberg)
• Great merchandising never goes out of fashion (McKinsey)
• How Canada's grocery store loyalty programs compare (Globe and Mail)
• Food prices - where is the real fat (C.D. Howe Institute)
• Skipthedishes replaces CEO amid big companywide shakeup (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy & leadership #1 (Medium)
• Driving growth in consumer goods through programmatic M&A (McKinsey)
• The joy of zero-waste cooking (NYT)
• It's the end of the Bay as we know it (Globe and Mail)
• Windsor Salt strike might show up in your grocery bill (CBC)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Empire says cost of Sobeys cybersecurity breach higher than initial estimates (Globe and Mail)
• Drone delivery is about to get real (Axios)
• Whole Foods, other grocery stores, are hot property (WSJ)
• Couche-Tard to buy more than 2,000 European service stations from French energy giant TotalEnergies (Globe and Mail)
• Seaweed is heaving its moment in the sun (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The American diet has a sandwich problem (WSJ)
• What's in a full English breakfast? Don't ask the English (WSJ)
• Kellogg Company unveils names for global snacking and international cereal companies following planned separation (Kellogg)
• Masatoshi Ito, the king of convenience stores in Japan, dies at 98 (NYT)
• From the archives (1999): Gucci vs Goliath (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Chick-fil-A wants to serve its chicken sandwiches in Asia and Europe (WSJ)
• Banking on the seaweed rush (Hakai Magazine)
• The perils of executive typecasting (McKinsey)
• The supply chain needs a permanent seat at retail's top table (Bain)
• How sugar substitutes sneak into foods and affect your health (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Did Starbucks really put olive oil in their coffee (The New Yorker)
• Allbirds stock plummets after shoe brand's downturn (Bloomberg)
• Majority of women feel invisible at work, Ivey Business School research shows (Globe and Mail)
• Surge pricing creeps into restaurants, movies, gym classes (WSJ)
• McCain Foods plans $600-million investment to double its operations in Alberta (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Platform business taxonomy (Medium)
• Inside the 'Top Chef' industrial complex (NYT)
• Tesco to charge suppliers extra to sell online (BBC)
• A supermarket mega-merger will redefine what you buy at the grocery store (WSJ)
• The biggest winner in the gas stove fight is induction ranges (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• BMO to buy Air Miles after loyalty program loses key retailers, files for creditor protection amid heavy debts (Globe and Mail)
• BORG drinking is going viral on TikTok. What on earth is it (NYT)
• How Lego beat Barbie and Monopoly (WSJ)
• Generative AI in fashion (McKinsey)
• Biomilq and the new science of artificial breast milk (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Grocery CEOs push back on price-gouging allegations (CBC)
• Air Miles owner Loyalty Ventures prepares for bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
• Shein set to raise $2 billion, eyes US IPO later this year (Reuters)
• Hot dogs can explain how our view of inflation and employment changes with the seasons (WSJ)
• From the archives (2018): How insurgent brands are rewriting the growth playbook (Bain)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate (McKinsey)
• How Doordash uses analytics and forecasting amid economic uncertainty (WSJ)
• Walgreens faces blowback for not offering abortion pills in 21 states (NYT)
• Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues quantitative tightening (Bank of Canada)
• Sold-out Girl Scout cookie flavor hits the resale market (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The seduction of the big-box superstore (The New Yorker)
• This department store stock has trounced Apple, Amazon, and Tesla (WSJ)
• Making luxury ice at home (NYT)
• Weight Watchers moves into the Ozempic market with telehealth deal (WSJ)
• Why Toblerone is dropping the Matterhorn from its packaging (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Cost-effective differentiation (Medium)
• Macy's Best Buy sales decline, reflecting shopper pullback (WSJ)
• Retailers lay out a downbeat outlook as inflation squeezes low-income shoppers (NYT)
• Amazon pausing construction of Washington, D.C.-area second headquarters (WSJ)
• Amazon's big dreams for Alexa fall short (FT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Canada's biggest shopping malls scramble for anchor tenants in wake of Nordstrom departure (Globe and Mail)
• The Brooklyn grocery store that feeds nostalgia (NYT)
• Avoiding palm oil might be harder than you think (CBC)
• Taking alternative proteins mainstream (BCG)
• DC's food influencer scene is booming. It's also a hot mess (Washingtonian)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How to turn data into competitive advantage (MIT Sloan)
• Nordstrom closing down in Canada, shuttering all 13 stores (CBC)
• Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniel's encrusts a Tennessee town (NYT)
• Interest rate hikes have yet to bring down food prices. Here are some tools governments could try (CBC)
• From the archives (1985): Scandal over poisoned wine embitters Austria (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• These companies want to tackle food waste with microbes (MIT Technology Review)
• More Brits turn to Aldi as inflation hits record high (Bloomberg)
• Mindsets for success: Lessons from top CEOs (McKinsey)
• Airlines dynamic pricing may be causing them to pay higher prices than their neighbours (Globe and Mail)
• TikTok made knockoffs cool. At what cost? (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Is private equity tearing the soul out of Morrisons (The Guardian)
• Why retailers fail to adopt advanced data analytics (HBR)
• British growers warn of leek shortage amid 'challenging weather' (Bloomberg)
• Sake is booming in America (NYT)
• Ozempic is changing the definition of being thin (The Cut)