Stephan's Friday Picks

• Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever (MIT Technology Review)
• Some consumers are giving inflation the bird, with a whole chicken (WSJ)
• JAB's bet on pets (FT)
• The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching in the right pools (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2014): America is eating a lot more berries. Here's why (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Remote work is overrated. Supercities are coming back (Vox)
• The new shortage: Ketchup can't catch up (WSJ)
• The importance of 'omnichannel' strategies (The Economist)
• COVID-19 re-wrote the rules of shopping. What's next (WSJ)
• Drive-throughs that are predicting your order? Restaurants are thinking fast (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, to be replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy (NYT)
• Pets may soon be fed laboratory-grown meat (The Economist)
• Superstar cities are in trouble (The Atlantic)
• Chipotle drive-throughs open a window of opportunity (Bloomberg)
• Canada's Flexiti, a buy-now-pay-later lender, sold to US firm for $155 million (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Couche-Tard drops bid to take over Carrefour (CBC)
• Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 (Edelman)
• Marc Lore is leaving Walmart to build "a city of the future" (Vox)
• The honey detectives are closing in on China's shady syrup swindlers (Wired)
• The founders of Harry's got a $1.37 billion offer. But the FTC wasn't sold (Inc)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• It's time to replace the public corporation (HBR)
• Why is there financing for everything now (The Atlantic)
• High-end city dining turns to suburban delivery during the pandemic (WSJ)
• Aphria, Tilray combine to form the biggest cannabis company (Bloomberg)
• Former Away employees describe toxic work environment at the luggage startup (The Verge)