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)