Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Starbucks came undone (Slate)
• The year in food (The Atlantic)
• How we'll eat in 2026: More caution, more crunch (NYT)
• How an office romance sparked an overhaul at Nestle (WSJ)
• What it takes to preserve the 355-year-old Hudson's Bay charter (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy & Connoisseurship (Medium)
• Lululemon founder Chip Wilson launches proxy fight for board changes (Globe and Mail)
• Soaring coffee prices are forcing roasters, retailers, and consumers to adapt (Globe and Mail)
• Why a $500 steak dinner only yields a $25 profit (WSJ)
• The United States of Klarna (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why Sears's last great hope was a promise that never materialized (NYT)
• How Costco won over wine snobs (WSJ)
• Costco earnings show Executive members driving the economy (Quartz)
• Sam's Club is beating Costco at its own game - in China (WSJ)
• Canada's lobster industry caught in a tariff trap (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The battle for The Bay (Toronto Life)
• You know Panettone. Now meet its rarer, even more difficult cousin (NYT)
• Target, Walmart, Whole Foods targeted in botulism suits (Bloomberg)
• Nestle's Nespresso appoints new North American chief executive (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (1979): The bid to buy Hudson's Bay fought (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• A $600 suckling pig? Wagyu for all? On menus, it's a new gilded age (NYT)
• Jim Beam halts production as whiskey market struggles (NYT)
• Instacart scraps all price tests after customer pushback (WSJ)
• What does Lululemon need: Discipline or inspiration (WSJ)
• Cocoa prices are plunging. Why is chocolate still so expensive (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Tiff Macklem on lessons from the trade war and what risks he sees ahead (Globe and Mail)
• 14-hour shifts and $1 a delivery - but China's army of gig workers keeps growing (WSJ)
• The cracks in Crumbl's cookie empire are showing (Bloomberg)
• Chasing spice and street food in India's pink city (NYT)
• High coffee prices are changing how consumers take their daily brew (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Elliott builds over $1 billion stake in Lululemon (WSJ)
• Walmart's $115 thousand starting pay and better rigs draw women to trucking (Bloomberg)
• The Big Tobacco playbook comes for your Oreos (The Atlantic)
• Luckin Coffee is said to consider bidding for Nestle's Blue Bottle (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2007): Zen and the art of retailing (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Canada reports its biggest ever population decline (Globe and Mail)
• Kraft Heinz picks new CEO ahead of split (WSJ)
• Pepsi worked to keep prices higher to protect Walmart, FTC found (WSJ)
• DoorDash brings grocery shopping to ChatGPT, rivaling Instacart (Bloomberg)
• General Mills says stressed shoppers buying more on sale (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Your holiday party food should be a shrimp tower (NYT)
• Sylvain Charlebois: The quiet transformation of Canada's grocery industry (National Post)
• The grocery code of conduct takes effect next month. Its first enforcer has a 'big job' ahead (Globe and Mail)
• The hottest toy of the year is made by a tech startup you've never heard of (WSJ)
• The cult of Kohl's cash (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Thinking intelligently about corporate purpose (Medium)
• How do skincare dupes compare to luxury brands (BBC)
• Warehouse clubs turn to store brands as shoppers push back on prices (WSJ)
• Australia to ban supermarket price gouging in sweeping competition reforms (Bloomberg)
• Chile's powerful cherry industry strives to satisfy Chinse buyers (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Coca-Cola names next CEO (WSJ)
• Lululemon chief executive Calvin McDonald to depart next month (WSJ)
• As the price of beef soars, restaurants are in 'code red' mode (NYT)
• Canada records surprise trade surplus after seven months of deficits (Globe and Mail)
• Shoppers' treasure hunt is on at TJ Maxx (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Daniel Debow: An AI strategy to build Canadian prosperity (Build Canada)
• Howard Marks: Is it a bubble (Oaktree Capital)
• The AI reckoning. How boards can evolve (McKinsey)
• The 25 most important ideas for 2026 (Derek Thompson)
• From the archives (2011): Roger Martin: Canada's innovation imperative (Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tariffs dent Campbell's soup sales (WSJ)
• Can Jollibee beat American fast food at its own game (The Atlantic)
• Why Costco is the only big retailer to challenge Trump on tariff refunds (Washington Post)
• Home Depot warns that housing pressures will persist next year (Bloomberg)
• Canada's US envoy to step down, Mark Wiseman seen as likely successor (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kroger's CEO wants to cut prices by cutting costs (WSJ)
• PepsiCo plans layoffs as it looks to wrap up Elliott talks (Bloomberg)
• Beauty has never been more cutthroat. Here's how Sephora plans to stay on top (WSJ)
• Magnum Ice Cream hits $9 billion market cap on trading debut (WSJ)
• Same product, same store, but on Instacart, the prices might differ (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: A leader's role in fostering AI superpowers (Medium)
• American breakfast cereals are becoming less healthy, study finds (NYT)
• How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices (The Guardian)
• Game theory explains how algorithms can drive up prices (Wired)
• The heist of its culinary crown jewels rocks French village (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The end of the lunch bowl era (Bloomberg)
• New York law could set stage for AI regulation's next big battleground (NYT)
• Goodbye price tags, hello dynamic pricing (NYT)
• Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think (Washington Post)
• Economy was on stronger footing heading into trade war, Statscan revisions show (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• EQ Bank to buy PC Financial from Loblaw for $800 million (Globe and Mail)
• Thomson, Weston families win bid for Hudson's Bay charter (Globe and Mail)
• You're on Ozempic? How quaint (The Atlantic)
• Ozempic is changing the way we spend money on time, and the way we eat (Washington Post)
• From the archives (2002): Thomson legacy likely to endure (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• People are ordering smaller pizzas and fewer toppings. What does that tell us (NYT)
• San Francisco sues food makers over ultra-processed products (WSJ)
• Past forward: The modern rethinking of marketing's core (McKinsey)
• Get ready America, here come China's food and drink stores (NYT)
• Costco joins companies suing for refunds if Trump's tariffs fail (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Diversification can't disappear a strategy problem (Medium)
• Trump's beef price battle meets America's insatiable demand (Bloomberg)
• Does New York need another luxury grocery store (NYT)
• The future of retail: Six disruptions that could shape the next decade (Bain)
• H&M caught in the middle of a fast fashion battle (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Gen X-ers have money to spend. Why are retailers ignoring them (NYT)
• Here's what's really in a can of chicken soup (WSJ)
• Billionaire Zara heir bets fast fashion empire on upmarket push (Bloomberg)
• Inside Atlanta's first government-funded supermarket (WSJ)
• How Pepsi trounced Coca-Cola in the Middle East (The Economist)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Molson Coors accuses former Canadian staff of 'complex' embezzlement scheme (Globe and Mail)
• Michelin honoured the cheesesteak. Not all Philadelphians cheered (NYT)
• Ontario grocers could avoid taking back wine and beer empties under new deal (CBC)
• Shaking up the British sugar tax (Bloomberg)
• Lululemon is having an identity crisis. Its founder blames its CEO (WSJ)