Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The precision modern company (Medium)
• Unlocking Loblaw Digital's next phase of growth (Medium)
• Amazon abandons autonomous home delivery robot tests in latest cost cuts (WSJ)
• The economics of Costco rotisserie chicken (The Hustle)
• The great post-Covid online shopping bet was a costly delusion (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Hungry and confused: The winding road to conscious eating (McKinsey)
• 'I am energy': Inside the Bang billionaire's reeling empire (Bloomberg)
• Why don't grocery stores stock the most American fruit (The Atlantic)
• You must respect candy corn (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw puts self-driving delivery trucks on Canadian roads for the first time (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Small is beautiful (Medium)
• Ottawa urged to move ahead with food warning label despite call to exempt ground meat (Globe and Mail)
• From sourdough to inflation. How the pandemic changed the way we eat (Eater)
• Mondelez to buy energy bar maker Clif Bar for $2.9 billion (CNBC)
• Self-driving big rigs are coming. Are we ready (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Unilever investors want split or new chair amid rumbling discontent (FT)
• Guacamole prices soar ahead of Super Bowl (Bloomberg)
• A green grape's journey through a global supply chain on edge (Financial Post)
• Weston foundation launches innovation hub in bid to enhance food security (Globe and Mail) 
• Gatik CEO sees future of autonomous trucking in short hauls (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• A leader in the cultured meat industry envisions the future (McKinsey)
• Who is driving the Great Resignation (HBR)
• Ford, Walmart, and Argo AI team up to offer autonomous vehicle delivery service (Reuters)
• Inside the brutal realities of supply chain hell (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2002): A sandwich (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Yandex buys Uber out of food delivery, self-driving venture (Bloomberg)
• Private equity companies all want the same thing: British companies (NYT)
• Starbucks workers in Buffalo seek union vote (NYT)
• Allbirds files for IPO, reveals losses (CNBC)
• Online bed enthusiasts are making DIY mattresses (Vice)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy as a practice (Medium)
• Amazon primes for another happy holiday and prosperous New Year (Bain)
• Your next favourite restaurant might not be a restaurant (Bloomberg)
• Coupon-clipping fades into history as Covid-19 accelerates digital shift (WSJ)
• Loblaw tests driverless technology in delivery network (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Driverless tractors are getting read for harvest season (Bloomberg)
• How to re-engineer your business for safety (HBR)
• Walmart pushes forward with new HQ plans (Fortune)
• Pilgrim's Pride chief executive accused of price fixing (NYT)
• Brands have nothing real to say about racism (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The human cost of Instacart's grocery delivery (The Verge)
• Amazon in advanced talks to buy self-driving car company Zoox (WSJ)
• COVID-19 lawsuit takes on McDonald's like it was a rowdy bar (Reuters)
• The case for letting the restaurant industry die (The New Yorker)
• Mom and pop retailers are struggling. Big box giants are thriving (Barron's)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Should your cat be vegan (WSJ)
• The movement to streamline skincare (The Guardian)
• The USDA is turning spinach red to boost consumption (Quartz)
• Yandex is testing autonomous robot delivery in Moscow (Engadget)
• Delivery drivers for Instacart, Postmates and others say algorithms are destabilizing their pay (WP)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How celery became the unlikely star of the produce aisle (LA Times)
• Pret a Manger to buy rival Eat in veggie push (FT)
• M&S food push gives some investors indigestion (Bloomberg)
• Future of driverless deliveries depends on large automakers (WSJ)
• From the archives (1985): New Coke vs. classic: The verdict is still out (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Malls and retailers look to co-working startups to fill vacant space (Globe and Mail)
• Fast-growth chickens produce new industry woe: 'spaghetti meat' (WSJ)
• Why US baby food sales are down (Quartz)
• Tonight's dinner? In a cooler-sized robot that knows where you live (WSJ)
• Social spin doctor: Kind Bar's Daniel Lubetzky builds a $1.5 billion fortune on do-gooder rhetoric (Forbes)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sears to stay open another week; auction set for Monday (NYT)
• The Impossible Burger 2.0 is a plant-based beef replacement that's meatier than ever (Popular Science)
• 'Fast action' in fast food (McKinsey)
• Walmart will offer autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona (Engadget)
• From the archives (2012): Why 'good jobs' are good for retailers (HBR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Internet beef is taking advantage of not-so-hot supermarket meat (Bloomberg)
• GM, Door Dash to test autonomous vehicle deliveries (WSJ)
• Stitch Fix's success is underappreciated (Bloomberg)
• The five trademarks of agile organizations (McKinsey)
• As big retailers seek to cut their tax bills, towns bear the brunt (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The high price of efficiency (HBR)
• The rise of anxiety baking (The Atlantic)
• The Amazon HQ2 document we weren't supposed to see (NYT)
• Kroger-owned grocery store begins fully driverless deliveries (Ars Technica)
• Pfizer, Glaxo to create an over-the-counter drug giant (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• J&J knew for years that asbestos lurked in its baby powder (Reuters)
• A toaster on wheels to deliver groceries? Self-driving tech tests practical uses (NYT)
• America can't move its cheese (WSJ)
• Going head-to-head in beauty retailing (Coresight Research)
• Tilray, Novartis deal to distribute medical marijuana globally (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• As Sears withers, its former stores fuel a new fortune (NYT)
• Dull skin? Restless sleep? There's a drink for that (WSJ)
• Here's the ugly truth behind the ugly produce movement (New Food Economy)
• The world's first self-driving grocery delivery cares are on the road in San Jose (Fast Company)
• Rising 'near me' searches show why grocers must improve their search engine rankings (Progressive Grocer)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Canadians want convenience when food shopping - and grocers are paying the price (The Globe and Mail)
• Waymo teams up with Walmart, Avis and others for short driverless rides (NYT)
• United Natural Foods to buy grocery-store chain Supervalu (WSJ)
• Zero-based productivity: The power of informed choices (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2011): Calvin McDonald, 39, helps Loblaw keep up with changing tastes (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Tesco and Carrefour to create long-term 'strategic partnership' (BBC)
• How Atul Gawande landed the most extraordinary job in health care (Stat)
• Amazon's delivery van network is a direct threat to UPS (Recode)
• Kroger is launching a fully driverless delivery service (The Verge)
• Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack for $1 billion (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Alibaba made a driverless robot that runs 9mph to deliver packages (The Verve)
• Our food supply chain is killing us (The Outline)
• Walmart's war on waste (Canadian Grocer)
• HelloFresh to sell meal kits in Giant Food, Stop & Shop stores (WSJ)
• UK march of discounters Aldi and Lidl abating, say analysts (FT)