Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Walmart, Kroger bottle their own milk and shake up American dairy industry (WSJ)
• Mondelez CEO Dick Van de Put on snacking during the Covid crisis (Bloomberg)
• Understanding and shaping consumer behaviour in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Hygiene theater is a huge waste of time (The Atlantic)
• When we were bread heads (The Cut)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Corner Office: Michael Evans of Alibaba on Singles Day and Olympic rowing (NYT)
• Kobe Bryant wants to sell you a sports drink (Bloomberg)
• Sainsbury's to stock edible insects on shelves in a UK first (The Guardian)
• Why 'many model' thinkers make better decisions (HBR)
• Kroger and Ocado to build first robotic warehouse in Cincinnati (Reuters)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The reason why food tastes better in a bowl than on a plate (Quartz)
• Plant-based 'meat' and 'fish' might be the future. But how do they taste (WSJ)
• How a room's lighting shapes our decisions (Kellogg Insights)
• Buy from Walmart, Ontario Tim Hortons franchisees told, as a shortage hits Guelph warehouse (Financial Post)
• How an asset manager pressured a grocery chain on gun sales - and won (Institutional Investor)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The retail winners and losers of 2017 (Retail Dive)
• How do you compare? (Blue Mountain Capital)
• When to decentralize decision making and when not to (HBR)
• Grocerants (Robin Report)
• From the archives: Rob McEwan takes command at Sobeys (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Theranos and the dark side of storytelling (HBR)
• Hype is ahead of science for Cacmpbell's-backed personalized diet startup (Forbes)
• How light bulbs watch you buy groceries (The Atlantic)
• Why Mastercard thinks decision intelligence could be a commerce game-changer (Pymnts)
• The desert rock that feeds the world (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• These professors make more than a thousand bucks an hour peddling mega-mergers (ProPublica)
• How two trailblazing psychologists turned the world of decision science upside down (Vanity Fair)
• Will Amazon steal Christmas (Bain)
• Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound (The Guardian)
• Loblaw, Metro talks with suppliers pay off in better results as food price inflation stays flat (Financial Post)
• Walmart keeps us waiting online (Gadfly)
• What U.S. retailers can learn from Alibaba's record setting Singles Day (Retail Dive)