Stephan's Monday Picks

• Food influencers are eating old school critics for lunch (Globe and Mail)
• Putting olive oil in a squeeze bottle earned this company a cult following (Bloomberg)
• Uber's next act: Taking on Amazon (FT)
• First came the $100 wide-leg jean. Then the $700 shopping spree (Bloomberg)
• Couche-Tard's Alain Bouchard: "Pathological entrepreneur" swooping on 7-Eleven (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Nearly 1 in 10 people in B.C. are non-permanent residents (Globe and Mail)
• Taking on food emissions at their origin and consumption (NYT)
• Some 7-Eleven owners in Japan welcome foreign bid (Reuters)
• Couche-Tard's 'Cowboy Canadian' eyes his 7-Eleven prize, but the stakes are high (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Canadian population passes 35 million (CBC)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Restaurant portions are about to get smaller. Are Americans ready? (NYT)
• Shein faces Italian antitrust scrutiny over environmental claims (WSJ)
• One bright spot amid the industry's gloom: Natural wine (NYT)
• How Hello Kitty took over the world (WSJ)
• Statistics Canada says the population grew 0.6% in the second quarter to 41,288,599 (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Norway's high-stakes gamble on sustainable salmon farming (Globe and Mail)
• How food critic Keith Lee reviews restaurants (NYT)
• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you (Washington Post)
• The magic behind Shein's rise comes under threat: duty-free shipping (WSJ)
• China to investigate U.S. retailer, sending message over Xinjiang (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Overcoming the integrative strategy challenge (Medium)
• Ontario grocery store operators raise concerns about requirement to take back empty alcohol containers (Globe and Mail)
• Shaking the wild banana (NYT)
• Australia supermarkets sued over fake discount claims (BBC)
• Tesco's Aldi price-matched items are not like-for-like, report says (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why 'chaos wheat' is the future of bread (Washington Post)
• To sell their merger, two supermarkets try to redefine the 'grocery store' (Bloomberg)
• The hidden environmental cost of food (NYT)
• Target names PepsiCo's Jim Lee as finance chief (WSJ)
• These seven food entrepreneurs are changing eco-conscious diners (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Maveron's investment in Rebelstork (Medium)
• Amazon's new 'Shark Tank'-style show gives winners top billing in its store (WSJ)
• The French parfumer behind the internet's favourite fragrance (The New Yorker)
• Dollar stores expand aggressively even as sales shrink (WSJ)
• From the archives (2014): How a lopsided recovery fueled the dollar store wars (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Women in the workplace 2024 (McKinsey)
• The Tupperware party is over: Iconic kitchenware maker files for bankruptcy (WSJ)
• The beauty boom and beyond: Can the industry maintain its growth (McKinsey)
• Kroger antitrust case could open up a new bag of M&A possibilities (WSJ)
• Tesco plans to expand use of AI to personalize how people shop (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The customized drink is out of control (NYT)
• What's ahead for food (WSJ)
• Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week (NYT)
• Couche-Tard tests Japan's foreign investment reforms with 7-Eleven bid (Globe and Mail)
• Softbank-backed Swiggy said to eye India IPO filing this week (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy for start-ups - redux (Medium)
• From bad to worse: Canada's productivity slowdown is bad for everyone (TD)
• He used to bag groceries. Now Kroger's CEO is trying to save a $20 billion deal (WSJ)
• The plastics industry wants to redefine what's 'recyclable' (Propublica)
• Lego's business cards are made of Lego - but not for long (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why loyalty programs fail (HBR)
• Sobeys parent Empire sees modest sales increase in first quarter (Globe and Mail)
• Lululemon is seeing a slowdown in its women's business. Has it reached its ceiling (WSJ)
• The man who made Nike uncool (Bloomberg)
• New tariff rules could reverse a 'paradigm shift' in retail (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Canada Bread seeks damages from Maple Leaf Foods related to alleged bread price-fixing scheme (Globe and Mail)
• General Mills to sell North American yogurt business for $2.1 billion (WSJ)
• Just miles from Kroger's court battle, a food desert shows what's at stake (NYT)
• Amazon Fresh introduces new grocery savings for Prime members (Amazon)
• From the archives (2019): Amazon's press-to-order Dash buttons are officially discontinued (The Verge)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Combining fresh with grocery convenience (Deloitte)
• Lidl boosts UK sales as Asda struggles (Bloomberg)
• A TikTok fad fills grocery stores with singles (NYT)
• Asian sunscreens are all the rage, so why can't you buy them in Canada (CBC)
• Dollarama sees rise in second-quarter profits, sales as customers hunt for deals (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Mario Draghi: The future of European competitiveness (European Commission)
• Warmer temperatures have put chinook salmon - and a way of life - in grave danger (CBC)
• Starbucks's new CEO targets hectic stores, overwhelming menus (WSJ)
• Canadian GDP likely fell short of Bank of Canada's forecast, economist say (Globe and Mail)
• Campbell Soup sets sights on name change, new growth (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: (Playing to Win) x 5 (Medium)
• Couche-Tard urges 7-Eleven parent to continue talks (Globe and Mail)
• What the real estate industry needs to know about the future of experiential retail (McKinsey)
• Grocery price inflation: Is corporate greed to blame (NPR)
• Discount retailer Big Lot files for bankruptcy (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Staples Canada is pivoting as tech joins pens and paper in the new hybrid world (The Star)
• The story of the great Lego spill (NYT)
• Warmer temperatures have put chinook salmon - and a way of life - in grave danger (CBC)
• The Kroger-Albertsons deal has a chance (FT)
• How machines learned to discover drugs (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Rexall's U.S. owner sells pharmacy chain to Canadian private equity firm Birch Hill (Globe and Mail)
• Retail's outperformers: Lessons in value creation (McKinsey)
• Couche-Tard says it is 'confident' about takeover as questions swirl over price (Globe and Mail)
• Pivotal week ahead in Kroger-Albertsons case as F.T.C. lands early blows (WSJ)
• From the archives (2016): Rexall takeover shakes up the drugstore industry (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Temu's parent, a victim of competition or its own success (WSJ)
• The anatomy of the chief of staff role in eight charts (McKinsey)
• Nordstrom family bids again to take company private (WSJ)
• Organize your kitchen like a chef, not an influencer (Vox)
• Stores are small now (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Athletic Brewing conquered the drink market (Fast Company)
• How dynamic pricing spread from plane tickets to concerts (Bloomberg)
• A new era dawns as beer and wine hit convenience store shelves (Globe and Mail)
• The takeover fight that could reshape Japan (FT)
• From Starbucks to specialty cafes, the new arms race in the coffee wars (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: 7 Powers and Playing to Win (Medium)
• Ina Garten and the age of abundance (The New Yorker)
• What happens after the baby boomers retire (Statistics Canada)
• Nerf blasters and Lego rockets: Another mall evolution (NYT)
• Economist Eugene Fama: Efficient markets is a hypothesis, not a reality (FT)