Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Danone sales rise on high-protein, medical nutrition demand (Bloomberg)
• How Paris' working class dining experience is reshaping restaurant experiences in France (The Conversation)
• Egg prices collapse as once-empty shop shelves now overstuffed (Bloomberg)
• There's a reason American kids are such picky eaters (NYT)
• Walgreens cuts hundreds of jobs after private equity buyout (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Is food really better in Europe (The Cut)
• How AI and automation can transform the consumer enterprise (McKinsey)
• Inside Walgreens' $90 billion meltdown (Fortune)
• Message from Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on generative AI (Amazon)
• Kellanova slumps on reports EU regulators to probe Mars deal (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Hudson's Bay granted creditor protection to restructure its business (Globe and Mail)
• Hudson's Bay anticipates closing about half its 80 stores in restructuring plan (Globe and Mail) 
• Walgreens seals $10 billion take private deal with Sycamore (WSJ)
• Walgreens goes from $100 billion health giant to private equity salvage project (WSJ)
• Couche-Tard holds talks for US shops sale in Seven & i deal (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Trump says 'no room left' for talks, confirms 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico to take effect Tuesday (Globe and Mail) 
• Roger Martin: Starbucks and strategic entropy (Medium)
• Seven & i shares fall amid report it may reject buyout offer (Bloomberg)
• Pink gold (Globe and Mail)
• Sycamore nears acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Trudeau says Canada will retaliate for Trump's tariffs with 25 per cent levies on billions of dollars of goods (Globe and Mail)
• Inside Chick-fil-A's quest to make fast food faster (WSJ)
• MEC seeks cash infusion as inventory clearout batters bottom line (Globe and Mail)
• Walgreens tumbles after suspending steady dividend to save cash (Bloomberg)
• Canadian food companies plan to expand production U.S. as tariffs loom (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• FTC sues PepsiCo, alleging it gave Walmart an unfair advantage (WSJ)
• Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200 million fiasco (Bloomberg)
• Soda's rebound moment (The Atlantic)
• Adapting to Canada's consumer revolution (BCG)
• How do you convince consumers to eat plant-based meat (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Leaders shouldn't try to do it all (HBR)
• Walgreens is in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners (WSJ)
• Why is it so hard for clothing resale platforms to make money (Bloomberg)
• Albertsons sues Kroger, terminates merger after judge blocks supermarket megadeal (WSJ)
• Bank of Canada cuts rate by half point, signals 'more gradual' approach to further easing (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday picks

• Walgreens says it will close 1,200 stores (NYT)
• Home Depot is dropping warehouses in a shifting retail market (WSJ)
• Shoplifters gone wild (The Atlantic)
• Amazon joins Big Tech foray into nuclear power (WSJ)
• Project to revive Montreal melon hopes Quebecois nostalgia will bear fruit where others have failed (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy & sustained innovation (Medium)
• Amazon, built by retail, leans into its AI future (WSJ)
• The world of luxury fruit (NYT)
• The Save Mart Companies acquired by Jim Pattison Food Group (Grocery Dive)
• Walgreens plans 'significant' store closures, citing weak consumer spending (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why are Target and Walgreens slashing prices (The Cut)
• Ultra-cheap meals from China's delivery giant are hugely popular. Deliver drivers are bearing the cost (Rest of World)
• Canadian agri-tech tackles food insecurity with AI and automation (Globe and Mail)
• Canadian retailer Simons is expanding. Can it succeed where its peers couldn't (CBC)
• Japan runs on vending machines. It's about to break millions of them (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate (McKinsey)
• How Doordash uses analytics and forecasting amid economic uncertainty (WSJ)
• Walgreens faces blowback for not offering abortion pills in 21 states (NYT)
• Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues quantitative tightening (Bank of Canada)
• Sold-out Girl Scout cookie flavor hits the resale market (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you (The Markup)
• Why crop nutrients are suddenly political (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens CEO bets on doctors over drugstores (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons turfs key store owner amid battle with franchisees over profitability (Globe and Mail)
• The pandemic sent US consumers back to the sugar bowl (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Fake meat was supposed to save the world. It became just another fad (Bloomberg)
• Fort Walgreens (Curbed)
• Lidl and Aldi hiked prices the most of supermarkets in UK (Bloomberg)
• Party City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to cut debt (WSJ)
• AI for better crops (Knowable Magazine)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The long takeoff of skyrocketing food prices (Globe and Mail)
• How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat (BBC)
• How Aritzia became the hottest fashion chain in the U.S. (Bloomberg)
• How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting (Popular Information)
• The next green revolution: How Canada can produce more food with fewer emissions (RBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Restaurant Brands profit, sales gain as Tim Hortons looks to expand lunch, dinner offerings (Globe and Mail)
• Very important and hard to teach (Collaborative Fund)
• Sobeys, Safeway grappling with IT issues as Maple Leaf Foods announces cybersecurity incident (CBC)
• Walgreens unit close to roughly $9 billion deal with Summit Health (WSJ)
• Macy's plans to invest millions to fund minority-owned businesses (NYT)

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 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Lowe's selling Canadian retail operations, including Rona, to Sycamore Partners (Globe and Mail)
• CVS, Walmart, Walgreens reach $13 billion opioid settlement (Bloomberg)
• Freeland's economic update warns of 2023 recession, announces tax on corporate share buybacks (Globe and Mail)
• Was Jack Welch the greatest CEO of his day - or the worst (The New Yorker)
• From the archives (2008): Ontario's store wars marching west (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Canada's Food Price Report 2022 (Dalhousie University)
• What does ultrafast delivery really cost us (The Guardian)
• The era of the celebrity meal (NYT)
• Creating a better leaf (The New Yorker)
• Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to leaders: Put away your phones and listen to your employees (HBR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: The lost art of strategy (Medium)
• Amazon's grocery battle isn't what you think (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens lines up Goldman Sachs to explore options for UK Boots sale (FT)
• Kohl's urged to consider sale by activist investor (WSJ)
• Coming soon: Faux-meat burgers made from maggots and mealworms (Bloomberg)