Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How 10 billion pounds of lettuce travel from farms to dinner plates (WSJ)
• Unilever sales jump on emerging market demand for Dove soap (Bloomberg)
• Cracker Barrel CEO stepping down after logo redesign, activist pressure (WSJ)
• This summer's status symbol is a $3.99 bottle of water (WSJ)
• Mondelez lifts outlook on higher quarterly sales (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategic stuckness (Substack)
• Home Depot courts contractors as US economy weighs on DIY set (FT)
• AB Foods to spin off Primark (FT)
• Starbucks says its sales rebound is gaining momentum (WSJ)
• Mondelez reports developing market growth offsetting U.S, Europe weakness (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Mondelez trims outlook as high cocoa prices erode performance (Bloomberg)
• The innovation that's killing restaurant culture (The Atlantic)
• How Nestle's CFO sharpens focus across a global portfolio (McKinsey)
• Hershey warns of weak Halloween sales, nudges up outlook (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2019): Hershey's CEO knows how to get Americans to indulge (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Thinking more strategically about where to play (Medium)
• Building a destination for pet parents (McKinsey)
• Meet the pastry chef known as the 'Scone Master' (Globe and Mail)
• Life's ancient bottleneck (Quillette)
• Snack maker sues Aldi grocery chain over look-alike product packaging (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover (WSJ)
• Bain is said to be near a deal to buy Seven & i's supermarket assets (Bloomberg)
• KKR, Walmart to sell Japan supermarket Seiyu for $2.5 billion (WSJ)
• Tariffs add a new shock to food supply chains (NYT)
• How Mondelez will sell America on Sour Patch Kids that glow under a blacklight (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why India's food is the best in the world (Bloomberg)
• Oreo owner Mondelez taps AI to tweak its classic snacks (WSJ)
• Walmart's 82% surge leaves retail foes big and small in the dust (Bloomberg)
• The dynasty behind Walmart passes some control to the next generation of heirs (WSJ)
• From the archives (1992): Planet of the M&M's (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Identifiability and segmentation strategy (Medium)
• Mondelez made a takeover approach for Hershey, sources say (CNBC)
• One of Japan's great sushi masters is working, quietly, in Manhattan (NYT)
• Canadian Tire to keep 100% of financial services division after review (Globe and Mail)
• Tricked by a fake viral food product? You've just been snackfished (Wired)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Designing jobs right (HBR)
• Walmart's plastic bag ban leaves some customers saddled with mounds of reusable bags (CBC)
• Retailers and the terrible, horrible, not bad, pretty good holidays (WSJ)
• Where corporate governance still falls short (Globe and Mail)
• Mondelez sells gum business to Perfetti in $1.35B deal (Bloomberg)