Stephan's Friday Picks

• How to turn data into competitive advantage (MIT Sloan)
• Nordstrom closing down in Canada, shuttering all 13 stores (CBC)
• Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniel's encrusts a Tennessee town (NYT)
• Interest rate hikes have yet to bring down food prices. Here are some tools governments could try (CBC)
• From the archives (1985): Scandal over poisoned wine embitters Austria (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you (The Markup)
• Why crop nutrients are suddenly political (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens CEO bets on doctors over drugstores (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons turfs key store owner amid battle with franchisees over profitability (Globe and Mail)
• The pandemic sent US consumers back to the sugar bowl (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Decoding the strategy choice cascade (Medium)
• Tim Hortons parent RBI replacing CEO (Globe and Mail)
• Sandwich chain Subway is exploring a sale (CNBC)
• Nestle sells fewer products after increasing prices (FT)
• Canadian Tire sales flat as inflation-weary consumers spend on essentials but cut back elsewhere (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Organizational strategy & job titles (Medium)
• Tim Hortons faces scrutiny over app's tracking of customers (Globe and Mail)
• Issa Brothers, TDR may drop out of Boots race (Bloomberg)
• Unilever to add activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board (WSJ)
• Fake meat was touted as the 'future of food'. Why did it under-deliver (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Keeping Lidl's shelves stocked is harder than ever, says U.K. boss (The Guardian)
• For some recipe apps, your personal data is gravy (Washington Post)
• Best Buy tumbles as increased theft worsens margin squeeze (Bloomberg)
• Rebecca McKillican took over thousands of pharmacies - just in time to help lead the vaccine rollout (Globe and Mail)
• The great huckleberry supply crunch (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon plans to open large retail stores akin to department stores (WSJ)
• Why do chief data officers have such short tenures (HBR)
• Lululemon plans to make leggings from plants (Fast Company)
• Soaring cost of food is forcing families to scrimp at the dinner table (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2012): Selling it with extras, or not at all (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Cold storage for food is a hot real estate play (Bloomberg)
• What data can't do (The New Yorker)
• The curious case of the Cinnamon Toast Crunch box (NYT)
• For all the hype, robots are limited in what they can do in their home (Washington Post)
• Torys LLP partner to become President of Wittington (Toronto Star)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The $2 billion mall rats (Esquire)
• These gas station entrepreneurs favored food over fuel and got rich (WSJ)
• Avocados are the 'pandemic-proof' crop in lockdown health craze (Bloomberg)
• How retailers track your every move in exchange for coupons and convenience (Vox)
• How the biggest retail companies are companies essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (Brookings)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Are you ready for the new era of customer data (Bain)
• U.S. consumer-packaged-goods advertising in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Clorox wipes are still the hard-to-find pandemic item (NYT)
• Heat lamps are tough to find (Bloomberg)
• Coca-Cola to discontinue Zico, may drop Coke Life (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Retailers face a data deficit in the wake of the pandemic (HBR)
• You don't know your customer anymore (Fast Company)
• Americans are actually drinking less during the pandemic (Bloomberg)
• What's got into the price of cheese (NYT)
• Couch dining to withstand restaurant re-openings (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• J. Crew files for bankruptcy (NYT)
• Global brands need consumers to spend. They might have to wait (WSJ)
• How Tesco's 'doomsday exercise' helped it plan for Coronavirus (The Guardian)
• Buying consumer data? Tread carefully (HBR)
• Quarantinis, bread makers, and badminton: What's hot in down consumer market (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• When data creates competitive advantage (HBR)
• How Glossier turned itself into a billion-dollar beauty brand (Wired)
• Rich sales boost coffee creamers (WSJ)
• How Google got its employees to eat vegetables (One Zero)
• Hard coffee, hard kombucha - experts say no beverage is safe from alcohol (WP)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Kroger unveils plan to invest in technology, store resets (Supermarket News)
• Peltz lost P&G vote by less than 1% margin (FT)
• Hudson's Bay gets hammered after Nordstrom puts off privatization plan (Financial Post)
• The downfall of rosewater, once America's favourite flavour (Atlas Obscura)
• Danone CEO will take on chairman role (Bloomberg)