Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Unilever CFO Srinivas Phatak on how to perform and transform (BCG)
• When times are tough, people eat more beans. It's happening again now (NPR)
• Being creative requires taking risks (Escaping Flatland)
• Whole Foods CEO wants to put a banana in your Amazon box (Bloomberg)
• Prized by 'MAHA influencers' and chefs alike, craft flour is on the rise (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The agentic commerce opportunity (McKinsey)
• What we can learn from Loblaw's failed No Name stores (Globe and Mail)
• Bad news for Ruby Liu and her Bay 2.0 master plan (Toronto Life)
• Whole Foods, MAHA, and the battle over healthy eating in America (NYT)
• Restaurants are embracing restraint, with smaller menus, and diners are eating it up (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Analyzing the CEO-CMO relationship and its effect on growth (McKinsey)
• Amazon is launching a smaller version of Whole Foods (Quartz)
• Aldi to add 800 new U.S. grocery stores by 2028 (CNBC)
• Europe is wargaming a food crisis (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (1997): The forgotten benefactor of humanity (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• In San Francisco, a troubled year at a Whole Foods Market reflects a city's woes (NYT)
• Chuck E. Cheese was a kid's greatest birthday dream - or nightmare (Texas Monthly)
• This week's tiniest social media drama is about olive oil (NYT)
• Grocery app Getir in talks to take over German rival Flink (Reuters)
• The eB2B opportunity for consumer packaged goods companies (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How ice (and slurpees) made life worth living (WSJ)
• The brutal math of DoorDash and Uber Eats (NYT)
• Whole Foods explores building off-site kitchens to supply food bars (WSJ)
• Social commerce is remaking online shopping (BCG)
• Private equity's food binge goes sour (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Empire says cost of Sobeys cybersecurity breach higher than initial estimates (Globe and Mail)
• Drone delivery is about to get real (Axios)
• Whole Foods, other grocery stores, are hot property (WSJ)
• Couche-Tard to buy more than 2,000 European service stations from French energy giant TotalEnergies (Globe and Mail)
• Seaweed is heaving its moment in the sun (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• High grocery prices and food insecurity - the system is broken all over the world (Globe and Mail)
• Feeding chickens stale bread and unsold cookies for zero-carbon eggs (Bloomberg)
• The U.S. consumer is starting to freak out (WSJ)
• He's dazzled diners in the U.S. Now he aims to "change people's perspectives" in Ivory Coast (NYT)
• Whole Foods asks suppliers to lower prices as costs ebb (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Why planning over strategy (Medium)
  
• Behind every Trader Joe's sign is a working artist that painted it (Washington Post)
• How Canadians are coping with rising grocery bills (Globe and Mail)
• How Whole Foods has changed in the five years since Amazon took over (CNBC)
• Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India (Tech Crunch)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Here comes the full Amazonification of Whole Foods (NYT)
• How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff (The Hustle)
• Albertsons launches strategic review (WSJ)
• Flashfood raises $12.3 million to scale its app (Tech Crunch)
• Safeway, FreshCo workers in Manitoba vote in favour of strike (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The motivation for strategy (Medium)
• Restaurants and startups try to outrun Uber Eats and DoorDash (WSJ)
• Amazon's former delivery guru wants to solve the 'middle mile' (Bloomberg)
• How H-E-B helped Texans after the winter storm (NYT)
• The Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's 'conscious capitalism' (The New Yorker)