Stephan's Friday Picks

• A new Coca-Cola flavour at the end of the world (The Atlantic)
• Amazon aggregator Thrasio engages restructuring advisors (WSJ)
• Morrisons CEO David Potts to step down as ex-Carrefour France boss takes over (The Guardian)
• Lululemon and Peloton end their feud (WSJ)
• From the archives (2012): Carrefour rethinks its 'bigger is better' strategy (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Building food and agriculture businesses for the future (McKinsey)
• The hottest American restaurants in Paris (of all places) (WSJ)
• Walmart's head of fashion Denise Icandela talks about changing discounter's staid image in fashion (AP)
• This could be the holy grail to replace pam oil (BBC)
• Starbucks CEO seeks to improve service - for baristas (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The state of grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Lululemon's secret power - even moms can't make it uncool (WSJ)
• Many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco (Washington Post)
• Instacart IPO is latest stop of Fidji Simo's Silicon Valley ascent (FT)
• Rite Aid plans to shut down hundreds of stores in bankruptcy (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Measuring, managing, and mattering (Medium)
• What Big Tech knows about your body (The Atlantic)
• Can private equity be .... nice (Slate)
• Amazon's new challenge: Bargain retailers that are playing a new game (WSJ)
• Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Airlines are just banks now (The Atlantic)
• If you don't like inflation, you'll hate deflation (CBC)
• The microwave makes no sense (The Atlantic)
• Peek inside America's largest private company (Bloomberg)
• Let's clean up the Kleenex grocery myths (Financial Post)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How TikTok is reshaping the American cookbook (NYT)
• Hard-core sleepers are obsessing over their sleep stats (WSJ)
• Amazon unveils a 'smarter' Alexa. Its AI has a lot of work to do (Washington Post)
• Why your Starbucks wait is so long (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2019): Data science and the art of persuasion (HBR)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why the Twinkie is now worth billions (WSJ)
• Insiders reveal major problems at lab-grown-meat startup Upside Foods (Wired)
• Instacart IPO is an expensive lesson for venture firms (WSJ)
• The long, slow return to normal of food inflation in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Publix, Florida's favourite grocery store, explained (Vox)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy for the experience economy (Medium)
• Indigo founder Heather Resiman returns as CEO (Globe and Mail)
• Mattel's windfall from Barbie (NYT)
• Minister says Canada's largest grocery chains have agreed to 'work' on stabilizing food prices (CBC)
• Turmoil in Indigo's C-suite leaves Canadian publishers reading between the lines (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Trudeau announces new measures to deal with housing, grocery prices (CBC)
• Instacart was all about grocery delivery. No longer (NYT)
• BioSteel files for bankruptcy protection, parent company Canopy Growth looking for new buyer (Globe and Mail)
• France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs (BBC)
• Instacart's grocery partnerships are no free lunch (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Bernard Arnault built a luxury empire on 'desirability'. Who will inherit it (NYT)
• Dollarama posts 27-per-cent profit gain, raises sales forecast as shoppers seek relief (Globe and Mail)
• UK pub chains adopt surge pricing for pints (NYT)
• I learned the Italian tomato sauce tradition so I could enjoy summer all year long (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2005): Federated agrees to acquire May for $11 billion (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Instacart to target much-diminished valuation range of under $10 billion (WSJ)
• TikTok popularizes products. Can it sell them too (NYT)
• Walmart goes all in on Africa (WSJ)
• Unionized Loblaw workers in Manitoba vote in favour of strike (CBC)
• Instacart is hard to value (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why furniture got so bad (Washington Post)
• Michelin's coveted stars can come with some costs (NYT)
• Amazon's makeover of Lord & Taylor's building shows challenges of office conversions (WSJ)
• What Kleenex's Canadian exit reveals about our grocery sector's lack of competition (Globe and Mail)
• 'Feedback' is now too harsh. The new word is feedforward (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Dangerous cost reduction projects (Medium)
• The supermarket's next big product is your data (FT)
• Smucker sets sights on snacks with $4.6 billion Twinkie deal (WSJ)
• Kroger says supermarket sales are under pressure as shoppers pull back (WSJ)
• The hyperreal wonders of glace fruit (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Turning consumer and retail companies into software-driven innovators (McKinsey)
• Here's something beyond the expiration date: Expiration dates themselves (WSJ)
• Fewer Canadians dining out as inflation and interest rates bite consumer spending (Globe and Mail)
• Canada Bread banned from federal contracts over price-fixing scheme (Financial Post)
• Tyson Foods couldn't produce enough chicken. Now it has too much (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Momofuku CEO Marguerite Zabar Mariscal grew a $100 million company (Fast Company)
• Indigo CEO exits in latest shakeup in retailer's upper ranks (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart cuts starting pay for some new hires (WSJ)
• The Cook Out fast-food chain is expanding. It's glorious (Slate)
• From the archives (2019): From environmental leader to 'worst company in the world' (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Smarter retail promotions for a saturated market (BCG)
• Will I just keep spending more and more money forever (Vox)
• Tim Hortons drops new retro-inspired merch collection (Globe and Mail)
• Canada's energy drink crackdown needs more than recalls to dissuade kids, say parents and teachers (CBC)
• The incredible American consumer (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The glamorous, lonely lives of private chefs (NYT)
• Retailers bet wrong on American's feelings about stores (The Atlantic)
• How to read olive oil labels (NYT)
• Lining up at the Vancouver Artizia warehouse sale, searching for deals amidst the pain of high inflation (Globe and Mail)
• First party data is retail's next growth engine (BCG)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: What were they thinking (Medium)
• Boozy drinks blur lines between kid, adult beverages (WSJ)
• Come downstairs or we'll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers (Rest of World)
• Shopify deal for Amazon's Buy With Prime signals growing cooperation between e-commerce players (Globe and Mail)
• Instacart tells shoppers in hurricane: "Bad weather = good tips" (Vice)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The rise, and fall of the direct-to-consumer model (Rita McGrath)
• Amazon tells staff "it's probably not going to work out" unless they visit the office three days a week (The Guardian)
• Dollar stores flash warning signs on consumer spending (WSJ)
• Metro workers accept deal to end monthlong strike (Financial Post)
• From the archives (2001): It's a natural pairing: P&G sells Jif peanut butter to J.M. Smucker (WSJ)