Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Information technology & strategy (Medium)
• Wings, sweat, and tears (Eater)
• Advantage Tesco in the UK grocery wars (Bloomberg)
• Goodbye to the golden era of customer choice (FT)
• Canadians are sitting on $300 billion in excess savings. What happens next is anyone's guess (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The impossibility theorem (Medium)
• Walmart's new redesign looks a lot like Target - with one exception (Fast Company)
• The apple drone is finally here (Gizmodo)
• Restaurant menus shrank 25 percent because of supply chain, data suggests (Globe and Mail)
• Bed, Bath, and Beyond decluttered its stores and ended up frustrating shoppers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How remote work is reshaping America's geography (WSJ)
• Can the death of skinny jeans save retail (Bloomberg)
• Real meat that vegetarians can eat (WSJ)
• Your weird pandemic meals are probably fine (The Atlantic)
• Avoiding the tyranny of choice (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Cooks turned Instagram into the world's greatest takeout menu (NYT)
• The restaurant before and after Covid (n+1)
• Pizza Hut launches 'Detroit-style' pizza. America says 'huh?' (WSJ)
• Why reducing your offerings pays off (HBR)
• Amazon can make just about everything - except a good video game (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• An oral history of the world's biggest coupon (NYT)
• How a real-life monopoly made Monopoly the world's biggest board game (The Hustle)
• How Pez evolved from an anti-smoking to a beloved collector's item (Smithsonian Mag)
• Demystifying consumer choice (BCG)
• The year of the dog: In 2020 furry friends were just what we needed to make it through the pandemic (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• It's time for grocery retailers to simplify (BCG)
• Walmart to test drone delivery of grocery, household items (Reuters)
• Amazon's murky world of one-star reviews (BBC)
• 10 food trends for the next decade (WSJ)
• From the archives (2013): Why Canadians are paying more at Target (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Our ghost-kitchen future (The New Yorker)
• Why the American consumer has future options - maybe for good (WSJ)
• Vegan Mexican food is taking Southern California by storm (LA Times)
• Amazon private labels and antitrust (Margins)
• Lululemon to buy Mirror, a fitness startup, for $500 million (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• When bakers demanded more flour, King Arthur went to the mills (Bloomberg)
• Product simplicity for CPG companies (McKinsey)
• This is not the end of cities (Bloomberg)
• The credit card fees merchants hate, banks love, and consumers pay (WSJ)
• How White Lily flour began appearing across the United States (Eater)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Hard lessons breathe new life into retail stores (NYT)
• Why Walmart shoppers are finding more items 'out of stock' (WSJ)
• The shady world of beauty influencers and the brands that pay them (Vox)
• Inside Alibaba's new kind of retail (CNBC)
• New CEO Calvin McDonald looks to invoke Sephora experience as Lululemon surges ahead (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why adding more products isn't always the best way to grow (HBR) 
• JD turns to Google, Walmart to build global e-commerce empire (Bloomberg)
• Stadium food is suddenly getting cheaper (Eater)
• Whole Foods is starting to steal Trader Joe's shoppers (Bloomberg)
• With its new grocery concept, Meijer thinks big by scaling down (Food Dive)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The world's most ruthless food startup (Inc)
• 'Cash is just grief': Why shops and bars want to make you pay by card (The Guardian)
• Chobani reclaims control of its finances (NYT)
• How many versions of a product to customers really want (HBR)
• From the archives (2009): Game changer in retailing, bar code turns 35 (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Canadian Tire buys sportswear company Helly Hansen for nearly $1B (CBC)
• That endless series of menu items is paralyzing diners (WSJ)
• The meaning of the Vision Fund (The Economist)
• Red Lobster and waffles (NYT)
• Debiasing the corporation: An interview with Richard Thaler (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dr Ashante Reese on the loss of grocery stores and the power of choice (Epicurious)
• Is Primark's owner too big - and diverse, to fail (The Guardian)
• Walmart commits to 'zero food waste' in Canadian stores by 2025 (Globe and Mail)
• Warren Buffet heads for board exit at pivotal moment for Kraft Heinz (FT)
• Amazon's other Jeff steps into the spotlight (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Wired guide to artificial intelligence (Wired)
• Why less selection, not more, will be the defining retail trend of 2018 (Hubba)
• Soylent looks to shed techie image with 7-Eleven store expansion (Bloomberg)
• 'Lady Doritos'? Pepsi wants a do-over (NYT)
• Tesco faces record $5.6B equal pay claim (BBC)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When are consumers most likely to feel overwhelmed by their options (Kellogg Insight)
• How climate change is playing havoc with olive oil (and farmers) (NYT)
• At Plated, the future of meal-kit services is grocery stores (Fast Company)
• Amazon rivals turn to fine print to stem Whole Foods strategy (Reuters)
• Halo Top melts market share away from Unilever (Food Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Kroger unveils plan to invest in technology, store resets (Supermarket News)
• Peltz lost P&G vote by less than 1% margin (FT)
• Hudson's Bay gets hammered after Nordstrom puts off privatization plan (Financial Post)
• The downfall of rosewater, once America's favourite flavour (Atlas Obscura)
• Danone CEO will take on chairman role (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How grocery giant Aldi plans to conquer America: Limit choice (WSJ)
• Williams-Sonoma is built to win home-goods musical chairs (Gadfly)
• The rise of wellcare: A new market at the nexus of food, health, beauty (pwc)
• Amazon puts Whole Foods on fast track to conventional supermarket (WSJ)
• Walmart wants to send people into your house to stock the fridge (Financial Post)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Is the famous 'paradox of choice' a myth (PBS)
• The cost of dead inventory (Business of Fashion)
• Eddie Lampert says might consider deal with Sears Canada (Reuters)
• Gastrophysics explains how potato chips can taste even better (CBC)
• Couche-Tard buying U.S. convenience store Holiday: deal includes over 500 locations (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Paul Polman: 'I could boost Unilever's shares. But cutting costs is not our way' (The Guardian)
• The art of war with Amazon (BoF)
• James Quincey, Coca-Cola CEO, on why brands have to take a stand (Financial Times)
• The never-ending battle for space on Canada's grocery shelves (Globe and Mail)
• The power of consumer stories in digital marketing (MIT SMR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• It's probably more accurate to call breakfast the most dangerous meal of the day (Washington Post)
• 20 years on, Amazon and Jeff Bezos prove naysayers wrong (NYT)
• Britain's Sainsbury's looks to fashion instead of food (BoF)
• Lowe's is giving its workers exoskeletons to help lift very heavy things (Quartz)
• A decision support system for retail assortment planning (Retail Category Management)