Stephan's Friday Picks

• The 2025 CEOs of the Year (Globe and Mail)
• Struggles of the world's 'second lung' puts cocoa crops at risk (FT)
• Duane Roberts, father of the frozen burrito, dies at 88 (WSJ)
• UK retailers 'exasperated' as Budget disrupts Christmas season (FT)
• From the archives (2009): Drink up (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How brands are taking back social media from influencers (NYT)
• How Clorox learned to love AI (WSJ)
• Increasingly acidic seas threaten oyster farming (NYT)
• Kennedy's battle against food dyes hits a roadblock: M&Ms (NYT)
• Shein files for Hong Kong listing (Reuters)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why rice is poised to survive better in a warming world (Bloomberg)
• What is a 'fridge cigarette' (NYT)
• Canada's population growth slows to a crawl after moves to curb immigration (Globe and Mail)
• Hudson's Bay to change its name, landlords express 'concern' over lease deal (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2011): Diet Coke wins battle in cola wars (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• In changing climate, retailers turning to weather strategies (Reuters)
• Power and influencers: CEOs on social media (FT)
• Is your 'conglomerate discount' a performance discount or a communication problem (McKinsey)
• Why you can probably ditch fabric softener (Washington Post)
• Amazon CEO denies full in-office mandate is 'backdoor layoff' (Reuters)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Nearly 1 in 10 people in B.C. are non-permanent residents (Globe and Mail)
• Taking on food emissions at their origin and consumption (NYT)
• Some 7-Eleven owners in Japan welcome foreign bid (Reuters)
• Couche-Tard's 'Cowboy Canadian' eyes his 7-Eleven prize, but the stakes are high (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Canadian population passes 35 million (CBC)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Mario Draghi: The future of European competitiveness (European Commission)
• Warmer temperatures have put chinook salmon - and a way of life - in grave danger (CBC)
• Starbucks's new CEO targets hectic stores, overwhelming menus (WSJ)
• Canadian GDP likely fell short of Bank of Canada's forecast, economist say (Globe and Mail)
• Campbell Soup sets sights on name change, new growth (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Staples Canada is pivoting as tech joins pens and paper in the new hybrid world (The Star)
• The story of the great Lego spill (NYT)
• Warmer temperatures have put chinook salmon - and a way of life - in grave danger (CBC)
• The Kroger-Albertsons deal has a chance (FT)
• How machines learned to discover drugs (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The hidden life of seeds (Washington Post)
• The U.S. corn crop is great. Farmers finances? Not so much (WSJ)
• Canada's wildfires were a top global emitter last year, study says (NYT)
• What is corn sweat and is it making the Midwest more dangerous (Vox)
• From the archives (1973): The Russian wheat deal - hindsight vs foresight (St. Louis Fed)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon says it reached a climate goal seven years early (NYT)
• Coffee prices set to rise even higher, warns Lavazza (FT)
• The high cost of misaligned analytics and business goals (HBR)
• What your grocery cart says about you (NYT)
• US retailers paying premium to place big bets on holidays (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Women in the Workplace 2023 (McKinsey)
• Claudia Goldin's Nobel-winning research shows why women won (NYT)
• How a tiny island is adapting to climate change ... on its dinner plates (Vox)
• Food industry leaders launch alliance to champion net zero in agri-food sector (Financial Post)
• From the archives (2007): The emerge of retail food chains in Canada (BEC Boothman)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Claudia Goldin wins Nobel in Economics for studying women in the workforce (NYT)
• Roger Martin: Heuristics, management, and strategy (Medium)
• Should Walmart be data-mining your Ozempic prescriptions (The Verge)
• In Provence, winemakers confront climate change (NYT)
• Home Depot tracked a crime ring and found an unusual suspect (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Performance measurement transparency (Medium)
• Climate change is coming for your olive oil (Fast Company)
• Heating waters force change in industries that rely on the ocean (WSJ)
• Supermarkets are being asked to cut plastic waste. What would that look like (CBC)
• Consumers are spending like it's 2019 (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kraft Heinz sees a $25 billion opportunity - in schools (WSJ)
• The price of sauce (The Atlantic)
• How Kroger became the biggest sushi seller in America (WSJ)
• Olive oil prices soar as climate change-related catastrophes shrink Mediterranean harvest (Globe and Mail)
• Subway Sandwich chain nears sale (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• MIT's Zeynep Ton on the case for good jobs (McKinsey)
• Fast food customers are giving up on dining in (WSJ)
• This scorching summer is taking a toll on your favourite foods (Wired)
• Amazon's grocery business needs a massive makeover (Bloomberg)
• Are cooking videos making us better cooks (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Unilever says inflation has peaked as sales growth accelerates (FT)
• A soap maker cracks the code for 'made in America' (WSJ)
• Shoppers sound off on retailers' anti-theft tactics (CBC)
• It's so hot, they're growing mangoes in Italy (WSJ)
• Loblaw tops analysts estimates as rising grocery prices still outpace inflation (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Walmart in Mexico changed everything for an omnichannel future (McKinsey)
• The golden age of loyalty is done - but it can return (Globe and Mail)
• Amid Arizona's historic drought, a produce garden blooms (NYT)
• Oatly names new CEO and narrows quarterly loss (WSJ)
• The companies trying to make live shopping a thing in the United States (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 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 Wednesday Picks

• Shareholder advocates take aim at climate plans as proxy season begins (Globe and Mail)
• Subway explores sale that could value sandwich chain at more than $10 billion (WSJ)
• Inflation peaking is great for us, terrible for grocery stores (Washington Post)
• You don't know how bad the pizza box is (The Atlantic)
• Starbucks' new CEO has tall orders to fill (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Benchmarking is for losers (Medium)
• American bargain hunters flock to a new platform forged in China (WSJ)
• The future of retail in the age of convergence (Bain)
• Can climate labels on menus turn people off cheeseburgers (Bloomberg)
•  How the checkout line became a 'maze' to fuel impulse purchases (CBC)