Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Turning the future into the past (Medium)
• Americans can't stop spending. Here's why (WSJ)
• Halloween shoppers not spooked as economic slowdown remains elusive (NYT)
• Bud Light, Target boycotts show how the culture wars came to retail (Bloomberg)
• The rigid world of French cheesemaking meets unbound climate change (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Is it time to give candy corn the respect it deserves (NYT)
• Indigo CEO unveils new store and vision, but refuses to address past issues (Globe and Mail)
• The Mediterranean diet really is that good for you. Here's why (NYT)
• Amazon's profit triples as sales show resilience leading into holidays (WSJ)
• Unilever announces the sale of Dollar Shave Club (Unilever)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Michael Mauboussin: Total shareholder return (Morgan Stanley)
• The drugstore chains' healthcare fail (Los Angeles Times)
• Why breakfast sandwiches rise and shine as cereal keeps losing steam (Washington Post)
• Grocery store chains now have two-week deadline to provide pricing plans, says House Committee (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2001): Traditional grocers feel vindicated by demise of online grocer Webvan (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• One-third of Canadian restaurants operating at a loss as costs rise (Globe and Mail)
• As cost of living soars, millions of Canadians are turning to food banks (CBC)
• Amazon discloses it has more than 181 million users in the EU in first store transparency report (Globe and Mail)
• VF facing second activist push by Legion (Bloomberg)
• Heath Reisman is back to run Indigo for a very, very long time (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich shares leadership lessons on what matters most and why (McKinsey)
• The salmon on your plate has a troubling cost. These farms offer hope (NYT)
• How Lunchables ended up on school lunch trays (Washington Post)
• She made pesto. People started spilling their secrets (NYT)
• Who are the 12% of people consuming half the beef in the U.S. (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Tackling mysteries (Medium)
• Amazon confronts a new rival: TikTok (WSJ)
• Why olive oil is so expensive right now (NYT)
• Manitoba Superstore workers ratify new deal that ensures labour peace until 2028 (CBC)
• The unified theory of pricing (BCG)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The battle over rewards points (NYT)
• Business competition has declined over the last 20 years, watchdog report finds (Globe and Mail)
• 'Zero consumers': What they want and why it matters (McKinsey)
• Food is on sale again. You might still have sticker shock (WSJ)
• How consumer companies outcompete (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Metro alleges Loblaw falsely implicated them in bread price-fixing scheme (Globe and Mail)
• Those Doritos too expensive? More stores are offering their own alternatives (NYT)
• Self-checkout is a failed experiment (The Atlantic)
• Casual dining chains are back (Eater)
• From the archives (2014): Maple Leaf restructuring heats up with sale of Canada Bread (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Canada's inflation rate dips to 3.8% (Globe and Mail)
• Barnes & Noble sets itself free (NYT)
• How the British corner shop has set itself free (The Guardian)
• Taller box, less cereal? Calls for more transparency when companies shrink your groceries (CBC)
• Amazon introducing warehouse overhaul with robotics to speed deliveries (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• California's ban on red food dye puts FDA on the spot (NYT)
• Amazon's Prime Day flashes warning sign for retailers (Bloomberg)
• Metro claiming against George Weston for false price-fixing disclosures (Metro)
• Goodwill tries to figure out online commerce (NYT)
• Warehouses are calling in the gig workers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Ways of understanding (Medium)
• Rite Aid files for bankruptcy (WSJ)
• How a fertilizer shortage is spreading desperate hunger (NYT)
• Sobeys employees at Vaughan distribution centre walk off the job (CBC)
• U.S. races to expand Michigan locks and secure the supply chain (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dollar General might get shortchanged with CEO encore (WSJ)
• Capturing mind share with precision branding (BCG)
• Carl Icahn bet against U.S. shopping malls. Now he says the game was rigged (WSJ)
• Retailers' seasonal hiring plans signal a cooling labour market (NYT)
• Flexport is laying off 20% of its workforce (CNBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Women in the Workplace 2023 (McKinsey)
• Claudia Goldin's Nobel-winning research shows why women won (NYT)
• How a tiny island is adapting to climate change ... on its dinner plates (Vox)
• Food industry leaders launch alliance to champion net zero in agri-food sector (Financial Post)
• From the archives (2007): The emerge of retail food chains in Canada (BEC Boothman)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Wegmans stakes a claim in Manhattan (WSJ)
• Port of Montreal secures $150 million in federal funding for container terminal expansion (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon wants you to 'buy again' (WSJ)
• Walgreens names veteran health care executive Tim Wentworth as next CEO (CNBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Claudia Goldin wins Nobel in Economics for studying women in the workforce (NYT)
• Roger Martin: Heuristics, management, and strategy (Medium)
• Should Walmart be data-mining your Ozempic prescriptions (The Verge)
• In Provence, winemakers confront climate change (NYT)
• Home Depot tracked a crime ring and found an unusual suspect (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Tesco doing all it can to lower prices, boss says (BBC)
• Ocado CEO still believes robots can make it the Tesla of grocery (Bloomberg)
• Tesco: Steady Murphy still has room for more surprises in store (FT)
• Ozempic is making people buy less food, Walmart says (Bloomberg)
• A Resy founder expands his loyalty program for restaurants (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• A jargon-free explanation of how large language models work (Ars Technica) 
• You gorged on your European vacation but lost weight. Why (WSJ)
• The Harvard professor and the bloggers (NYT)
• America's food giants confront the Ozempic era (WSJ)
• From the archives (1990): Lessons in the cracker market (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Carlyle is dismantling US consumer team in buyout shift (Bloomberg)
• Amazon used secret 'Project Nessie' algorithm to raise prices (WSJ)
• For U.S. consumers, it's a matter of 'and', not 'or' (WSJ)
• Cargill's pandemic-era chicken-bet is finally ready to pay off (Bloomberg)
• How firms set prices during periods of inflation (Bank of Canada)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When to put out holiday decorations? For small businesses, it's a tricky question (WSJ)
• Lego is a company haunted by its own plastic (Wired)
• Why is coffee suddenly more expensive (Vox)
• India is making luxury fashion for the world (Bloomberg)
• Gucci, Chanel, and other luxury retailers splurge on American real estate (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Who should do strategy (Medium)
• Sycamore to take apparel retailer Chico's FAS private for nearly $1 billion (Reuters)
• What is a 'moat' (NYT)
• Meal kit maker Blue Apron to be sold (WSJ)
• Amazon has become a one-click nightmare (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Newer Nordic: The next wave of Copenhagen's fine-dining revolution (FT)
• Is an all-meat diet what nature intended (The New Yorker)
• Shopping habits have shifted for good, says Aldi (BBC)
• Canada's population surges on 46% jump in temporary residents (Globe and Mail)
• Working at Dollar General is so horrible even the investors are concerned (Bloomberg)