Stephan's Friday Picks

• China's online sellers are revolting against a barrage of refunds (Rest of World)
• Goodbye to the dried office mangoes (The Atlantic)
• Bed Bath & Beyond customers rush to use coupons for the last time (WSJ)
• Port of Montreal expansion costs soar to $1.4 billion (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2019): With Revlon for sale, the hostile takeover era Ron Perelman started comes to an end (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How IKEA chopped, hollowed out, and flattened its furniture to cut costs (WSJ)
• Whatever happened to Beyond Meat (FT)
• McDonald's diners push back against cost increases in some markets, CEO says (CNBC)
• The crunch on global economic profit (McKinsey)
• McDonald's PepsiCo, GM flex their pricing power (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Too many Americans are missing out on the best kitchen gadget (The Atlantic)
• J&J consumer health IPO process to kick off key test for moribund new issue market (WSJ)
• When did mass layoffs become so common (Vox)
• Port of Vancouver gears up to build $3.5 billion container terminal (Globe and Mail)
• What remote workers miss without the 'power of proximity' (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Do you know what's going on below (Medium)
• Amid imported food shortages, greenhouse farming takes off in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• One big web: A few ways the world works (Collaborative Fund)
• Demand for food banks reaches record high levels in Ontario (Globe and Mail)
• P&G earnings powered by higher prices for detergent, toothpaste (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Pepsi's new healthy diet: More potato chips and soda (WSJ)
• Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy (NYT)
• Inside the struggle to make lab-grown meat (WSJ)
• Taco Bell's innovation kitchen, the front line in the stunt-food wars (The New Yorker)
• Debunking age-based myths about worker preferences (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Turkey's Getir sees valuation almost halved with new funding (Reuters)
• From Twinkies to Doritos, snacks get tiny (WSJ)
• State of Grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty (McKinsey)
• Stampede in Yemen's capital kills at least 78 seeking food aid (NYT)
• From the archives (2008): Allan Leighton assumes Loblaw controls (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The world's richest person auditions his five children to run LVMH (WSJ)
• Stock-based compensation (Morgan Stanley)
• New York's only rest stop for delivery workers just closed. Now what (NYT)
• The myth of the broke millennial (The Atlantic)
• Rite Aid seeks direction as pressure mounts (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Loblaw hires European retail executive Per Bank as company's next CEO (Globe and Mail)
• Canada's inflation rate cools to 4.3% in March (CBC)
• Costco executive tells MPs the retailer is not profiting from food inflation (Globe and Mail) 
• The disgusting food of TikTok (The Guardian)
• Lululemon is exploring a sale of its Mirror fitness unit it bought in 2020 (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Finishing strategy (Medium)
• Walmart sells Bonobos to WHP Global and Express in $75 million deal (CNBC)
• Why it's important to show gratitude at work - and what's the best way to do it (WSJ)
• Thousands of NYC shoplifting cases committed by just 327 people (NYT)
• Nutrition science's most preposterous result (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How a big yellow label influences what we buy (BBC)
• Amazon joins Microsoft, Google in AI race (WSJ)
• How Bookshop.org survives - and thrives - in Amazon's world (Wired)
• The R.T.O. whisperers have a plan (NYT)
• Bank of Canada's Macklem says inflation falling quickly, but emphasizes longer fight to return to 2 per cent (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How a startup is using AI to make a vegan version of Boursin (Fast Company)
• Online shopping's fast delivery race is slowing down (WSJ)
• Inflation cools noticeably, but it's a long road back to normal (NYT)
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says in shareholder letter he's confident he can get costs under control (CNBC)
• From the archives (2021): Who's Anthony von Mandl? Meet the billionaire who made a fortune with genre-defying alcoholic drinks (Financial Post)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Slutty Vegan puts the party in plant-based food (The New Yorker)
• Resellers: The unseen engine of Indonesian e-commerce (McKinsey)
• What the lack of premium grocery stores says about disinvestment in Black neighbourhoods (Brookings)
• People are sick and tired of all their subscriptions (WSJ)
• Fresh grocery strategy needs a data-led reboot (Bain)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How ice (and slurpees) made life worth living (WSJ)
• The brutal math of DoorDash and Uber Eats (NYT)
• Whole Foods explores building off-site kitchens to supply food bars (WSJ)
• Social commerce is remaking online shopping (BCG)
• Private equity's food binge goes sour (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy & leadership #4 (Medium)
• Modern marketing: Six capabilities for multidisciplinary teams (McKinsey)
• The dog-eat-dog world of kosher pet food at Passover (WSJ)
• People started buying Crocs during the pandemic. They can't stop (NYT)
• Experience-led growth: A new way to create value (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Big Dairy is trying to get Gen Z to drink more milk (NYT)
• One hundred years of vegemite (BBC)
• How did Hokas become so popular (NYT)
• Chipotle peppered with complaints over salsa spiciness (WSJ)
• Walmart bets on warehouse robots, dangles profit potential (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Would life be better if you worked less (WSJ)
• Worker shortage? Canada's labour supply is actually robust (Globe and Mail)
• Grocery chains boost profits by charging different prices for the same stuff (CBC)
• New Skipthedishes CEO looks to expand online delivery beyond food (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2014): A dozen things I have learned from Jeff Bezos (25iq)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• L'Oreal buys Aesop in smart bet on clean beauty for millennials (Bloomberg)
• The 'King Kong' of weight loss drugs is coming (WSJ)
• 'Hot Ones' was a slow burn all along (NYT)
• Canada's downtown office vacancy rate hits 19 percent as workers embrace remote work (Globe and Mail)
• The new rules of layoffs (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy & leadership #3 (Medium)
• Hot cross mayo anyone? The stunt food brand strikes again (FT)
• McDonald's temporarily shuts U.S. offices as chain prepares for layoffs (WSJ)
• Panera to adopt palm-reading payment systems, sparking privacy fears (The Guardian)
• Five trends that will define South Korean grocery retail in 2023 (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• That style, again? How shopping got so boring (WSJ)
• Why Americans care about work so much (The Atlantic)
• Bed Bath & Beyond ends Hudson Bay deal, turns to market for $300 million to avoid bankruptcy (WSJ)
• Is coffee bringing people back to the office (Bloomberg)
• The data delusion (The New Yorker)