Stephan's Friday Picks

• The rise of the 'it' shake (FT)
• Worth thousands on the black market, Lego sets are now targeted by thieves (NYT)
• How Bentonville became an epicenter of the biking world (NYT)
• 'Ghost stores': The online retailers promoting closing-down sales for physical shops that don't exist (The Guardian)
• From the archives (2011): Zellers CEO rewrites the book on liquidation (Globe and Mail)