Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Culture change strategy (Medium)
• Don Don Donki billionaire primes 24-year old heir for retail empire (Bloomberg)
• 2025 Halloween candy trends (NYT)
• Procter & Gamble to focus on innovation, not discounts, to attract wary customers (WSJ)
• How Depop captured the heart of Gen Z (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Segmentation & strategy (Medium)
• The $9 bottle of Trader Joe's sunscreen that ignited a summer war (WSJ)
• How A.G. Lafley made culture change stick (Chief Executive)
• Walmart 'train wreck' profit warning sends shares down 10% (Reuters)
• Gen Z made it big on Depop. Now they're graduating (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Balancing exploration and exploitation (Medium)
• The economics of dollar stores (The Hustle)
• How a beer giant tackles eaves of Covid-19 around the world (WSJ)
• The hazards of a 'nice' company culture (HBR)
• Re-prioritizing the employee experience for consumer and retail companies (McKinsey)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart, Verizon in talks to test 5G services in some stores (WSJ)
• Why chefs are terrified of the NYC Health Department (Grub Street)
• Silicon Valley ruined work culture everywhere (Wired)
• Specialty grocers lose their edge (WSJ)
• The Dutch Oven, redesigned for Gen Y (Taste)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Fake meat companies are racing to 3D-print steaks (Bloomberg)
• Welcome to the button wars (WSJ)
• The real problem with Paula Deen (Eater)
• The life and death of the local hardware store (NYT)
• Judge dismisses Subway's $210M lawsuit against CBC over chicken sandwich expose (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside the startling, chaotic rise of Alibaba's Singles Day (Wired)
• Here's how KKR could take Walgreens private in biggest LBO (Bloomberg)
• Why pop-up shops are suddenly everywhere (The Atlantic)
• Inside Walmart's corporate culture clash over e-commerce (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2016): In praise of the Yukon Gold potato (Macleans)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How tech bros fell in love with baking bread (Eater)
• The death of the Montreal bagel (The Globe and Mail)
• Campbell Soup, Third Point settle proxy fight (WSJ)
• How to manage morale when a well-liked employee leaves (HBR)
• The monopolization of America (NYT)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why data culture matters (McKinsey)
• After 28,000 stores in 78 countries, Starbucks turns to Italy (WSJ)
• H-E-B to hire hundreds of employees for new digital HQ (Houston Chronicle)
• Third Point aims to replace Campbell Soup's entire board (WSJ)
• From the archives (2012): Discount birthday: Walmart, Kmart, Target hit 50 (USA Today)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How Costco's obsession with culture drove success (MIT)
• The spectacular power of Big Lens (The Guardian)
• At Toys 'R' Us, a $200 million debt problem could lead to $348 million in fees (NYT)
• Trans fats in food: The WHO's global ban, explained (Vox)
• Artificial intelligence might be the new frontier in food flavors (Eater)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart is accused of punishing workers for sick days (NYT)
• There's no such thing as big data in HR (HBR)
• Walmart's big new problem isn't Amazon (Gadfly)
• Don't give up on corporate culture (MIT SMR)
• Conagra shouldn't reach for Pinnacle (Gadfly)