Stephan's Monday Picks

• The new age of reading (The New Yorker)
• How the world fell back in love with butter (The Guardian)
• Who hacked France's supermarket fridges (The Guardian)
• Lindt brings back former boss as steep price rises hit demand for its chocolate (FT)
• Why it's so hard to get a reservation right now, according to a restaurateur (Food & Wine)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Menu for one: GenAI lets restaurants get personal (BCG)
• Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul (CNBC)
• Best Caisse scenario (Globe and Mail)
• London Drugs employee data leaked on dark web after cybersecurity breach (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2011): The dollar store economy (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why nobody can seem to solve Canada's cybersecurity problem (Globe and Mail)
• The chief strategy officer's evolving role (McKinsey)
• Amazon delivers surprisingly strong profit as retail business improves (WSJ)
• Profits did not cause inflation, Bank of Canada researchers contend (Globe and Mail)
• Campbell Soup to acquire Rao's parent company for $2.7 billion (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Empire says cost of Sobeys cybersecurity breach higher than initial estimates (Globe and Mail)
• Drone delivery is about to get real (Axios)
• Whole Foods, other grocery stores, are hot property (WSJ)
• Couche-Tard to buy more than 2,000 European service stations from French energy giant TotalEnergies (Globe and Mail)
• Seaweed is heaving its moment in the sun (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy (Vox)
• Shopify scraps big Toronto move, dealing blow to office market (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon signs deals with Games Workshop for Warhammer 40k films (Bloomberg)
• Malls welcomed dogs. The results have been ruff (WSJ)
• Empire takes $25-million hit as cyber attack disturbs operations (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Loblaw, Metro sales and profit grow as Canadian grocers face inflation scrutiny (Globe and Mail)
• Canada's inflation rate unchanged in October at 6.9% (CBC)
• How Hot Wheels became the largest automobile manufacturer out there (FT)
• Inside the turmoil at Sobeys-owned stores after ransomware attack (CBC)
• Target shares plunge on weak earnings, outlook (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Restaurant Brands profit, sales gain as Tim Hortons looks to expand lunch, dinner offerings (Globe and Mail)
• Very important and hard to teach (Collaborative Fund)
• Sobeys, Safeway grappling with IT issues as Maple Leaf Foods announces cybersecurity incident (CBC)
• Walgreens unit close to roughly $9 billion deal with Summit Health (WSJ)
• Macy's plans to invest millions to fund minority-owned businesses (NYT)

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 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The charm of making foods you usually buy (WSJ)
• The great retail reset (Institutional Investor)
• U.S. dairy cows too expensive to feed, causing herds to plummet (Bloomberg)
• Tesco website and app back up after hack attempt (BBC)
• Instacart needs to ring up grocers in store (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Great Jones cookware and the illusion of the millennial aesthetic (The New Yorker)
• H&M pays price of upsetting Beijing as China sales drop (WSJ)
• Pricing and promotions: The analytics opportunity (McKinsey)
• Apollo considers counterbid for Morrisons (WSJ)
• Hundreds of businesses, including Sweden's largest grocer, hit by cyberattack (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• For DoorDash and Uber Eats, the future is everything in about an hour (WSJ)
• What hoarding toilet paper means for economic data (Bloomberg)
• How the world ran out of everything (NYT)
• Nestle document says the majority of its food is unhealthy (FT)
• Cyberattack closes JBS meat-packing facilities in Canada, U.S, and Australia (CBC)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it a secret (NYT)
• Why dollar stores are bad business for the communities they open in (Fast Company)
• The cloud as catalyst for retail (McKinsey)
• Glossier hits $100 million in sales and takes aim at Big Beauty (Bloomberg)
• Dad's solution to buying presents. Hire someone else to do it (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Meet the saviour of Sobeys (The Globe and Mail)
• How wellness influencers made Indian food a trend (Bon Appetit)
• Slowly but surely, the Amazon Prime backlash is coming (Vox)
• Inside the hedge fund war at Sears (Bloomberg)
• Marriott hacking exposes data of up to 500 million guests (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• One in three families can't afford diapers. Why are they so expensive (Tampa Bay Times)
• Crispr'd food, coming a supermarket near you (Wired)
• When retail workers have stable schedules, sales and productivity go up (HBR)
• Saks, Lord &Taylor hit with data breach (WSJ)
• Alibaba takes control of Ele.me, at $9.5 billion value (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside the secret world of global food spies (Bloomberg)
• The man who wrote those password rules has a new tip: N3v$r M1^d (WSJ)
• Discount retailers make a move (Robin Report)
• Sainsbury's cost-saving measures will cut 1,000 head-office jobs (The Guardian)
• Lidl appoints new head of digital at Germany business (ESM)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Chobani's Hamdi Ulukaya is winning America's culture war (Fast Company)
• Hudson's Bay exposes Saks customer info online (Globe and Mail)
• General Mills' copycat strategy isn't working (Gadfly)
• Wal-Mart unveils 'Store No. 8' tech incubator in Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
• Amazon, bigger than you think, and their loyalists, are eating your lunch (Robin Report)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sarah Davis named Loblaw president amid Galen Weston executive shift (Financial Post)
• Nestle should leave baby food maker Mead Johnson in the corner (Gadfly)
• How Kraft Heinz plans to build a new global food giant (Fortune)
• 2016 was a record year for data breaches (Bloomberg)
• Do online reviews matter to businesses (K@W)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The Power of Six: a framework to help brands with their pricing strategy (Kantar)
• What executives get wrong about cybersecurity (MIT SMR)
• FedEx plays hardball with retailers as profits get squeezed (WSJ)
• The power of omnichannel stores (Bain)
• Department stores are losing in beauty, too (Gadfly)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Loblaw's profit jumps (Loblaw)
• How technology is transforming retail (HBR)
• Some retailers promote decision to remain closed on Thanksgiving (NYT)
• Toronto family uses 'extreme couponing' to keep monthly grocery bill under $200 (CBC)
• Online checkout: Theft strikes a British lender (The Economist)
• Are wild blueberries more nutritious than farm-raised (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• You don't need big data, you need the right data (HBR)
• Tesco Bank "ignored warnings" about cyber weakness (FT)
• How CVS, Walgreens battle for market share through their supply chains (Supply Chain Dive)
• What shoppers are affected by high food prices (Canadian Grocer)
• Budweiser and Coca-Cola: A match made in heaven (The Telegraph)
• Anheuser Busch In-Bev 2020 Dream Incentive Plan (SEC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Alibaba tops Singles' Day record as Chinese consumers rally (Bloomberg)
• The digital future of consumer packaged goods companies (MQ)
• What went wrong at Tesco Bank (The Register)
• How BMW optimised supply chain big data with Teradata (Computer Business Review)
• Fresh rivalry: Walmart, Amazon look to carve out larger online grocery business (CNBC)