Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Ikea battles Amazon and Temu as market shifts bring pain (Bloomberg)
• America is falling out of love with pizza (WSJ)
• Claire's enters UK insolvency as Modella blames high street pain (Bloomberg)
• AB InBev buys back $3 billion stake in U.S. metal container facility to boost supply security(WSJ)
• Ford vows to ban Crown Royal from LCBO after plant shutdown (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Training a novice strategist (Medium)
• 3G to buy Skechers footwear brand for $9.4 billion (Bloomberg)
• Temu stops China shipments to U.S. consumers (WSJ)
• When launching a product during a recession pays off (MIT SMR)
• High beef costs hurt Tyson Foods (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Is this the end of cheap stuff (Bloomberg)
• Amazon pressures suppliers to cut pries to limit Trump tariff shock (FT)
• Healthy sodas are drawing Coca-Cola's and PepsiCo's attention (Bloomberg)
• How 5 restaurants work wonders with no kitchens (NYT)
• US shoppers pay for Trump tariffs on Temu, doubling some prices (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Nestle chided over lack of transparency in Perrier filtering (Bloomberg)
• Inside Home Depot's $20 billion secret garden (WSJ)
• Pepsi vs. Coke: How the soda rivals are faring in the tariff war (WSJ)
• Temu and Shein will raise prices for US customers due to Trump's tariffs (AP)
• Americans are obsessed with protein and it's driving nutrition experts nuts (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The signs of a good CEO (Medium)
• Amazon and Temu's new battleground: Winning over sellers (WSJ)
• How online retailers can avoid costly out-of-stock issues (HBR)
• Sometimes the best restaurant is inside the grocery store (NYT)
• Winemaker Duckhorn agrees to be taken private in $1.95 billion deal (WSJ)

 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 Thursday Picks

• How Costco hacked the American shopping psyche (NYT)
• 7-Eleven deal talk reflects allure of Japanese convenience stores (Bloomberg)
• Shein sues Temu over copyright infringement, alleges rival loses money on every sale (CNBC)
• Businesses prepare for turmoil ahead of possible Canadian rail shutdown (Globe and Mail)
• Can plastic waste be transformed into food for humans (Undark)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The five deadliest strategy myths (Medium)
• Shein and Temu are swamping air freight capacity, sending rates soaring (WSJ)
• Carlsberg to buy soft drink maker Britvic for $4.2 billion (WSJ)
• The un-branding of Abercrombie (The Cut)
• The House of Arnault (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Discount grocers smell opportunity amid rising prices (Washington Post)
• Amazon's new focus: Fending off rivals Temu and Shein (WSJ)
• Canada's population shock drives most of recent productivity declines (Globe and Mail)
• Unilever approaches private equity for its ice cream business (FT)
• From the archives (2000): Ben & Jerry's to Unilever, with attitude (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The $2.99 Trader Joe's tote is causing chaos (NYT)
• Asia's e-commerce battleground is expanding fast (WSJ)
• The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu (FT)
• Temu's push into America pays off big for Meta and Google (WSJ)
• Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady, offers few hints about timing of future cuts (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Colorado sues to stop $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger (Reuters)
• Roark said to weigh IPO of Dunkin' owner Inspire Brands (Bloomberg)
• The spend, spend, spend strategy behind Temu's rapid ascent in America (WSJ)
• Canadian Tire profit falls nearly 68% as consumers remain wary amid uncertain economy (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Kroger buys rival grocer Harris Teeter, citing potential for growth (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• As war expands, Sudan could face a national famine by July (Globe and Mail)
• What happened to The Body Shop (CBC)
• Temu will bludgeon you into knowing its name (The Atlantic)
• The revolution that died on its way to dinner (NYT)
• Couche-Tard CEO made over $132 million from stock options over the last year (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Google is finally killing cookies. Advertisers still aren't ready (WSJ)
• AI is coming for the influencers (New York Magazine)
• Aldi and Lidl hail Christmas boost from bargain hunters (BBC)
• Carrefour drops PepsiCo products in France over price increases (NYT)
• Behind cheap stuff from Shein and Temu: A hard bargain with suppliers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Dyson took over TikTok (The Atlantic)
• Temu and Shein are shipping millions of packages a day (WSJ)
• You wanted lower food prices, Ottawa gave you political theatre (Globe and Mail)
• South Korea will police 'shrinkflation' at the supermarket (WSJ)
• The English muffin problem (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• We're all addicted to cheap stuff - and Temu knows it (Vox)
• Inside the mad dash to buy your Walmart and Amazon returns (Washington Post)
• The biggest problem with lab-grown chicken is growing the chicken (Bloomberg)
• Chobani buys coffee company La Colombe for $900 million (Reuters)
• Step inside the secretive world of toymakers (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How Brands Grow & Playing to Win (Medium)
• Shein and Temu ramp up war for U.S. shoppers (WSJ)
• The rise and fall of Bud Light (The Atlantic)
• The perils of highly processed food (The New Yorker)
• A multi-lens approach to finding growth in consumer brands (McKinsey)