Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Asking great strategy questions (Medium)
• Inside IKEA's digital transformation (HBR)
• How delivery apps are driving the automation of India's restaurant kitchens (Rest of World)
• It's hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy (NYT)
• McCain says all its french fries will be made from a farm using regenerative agriculture by 2030 (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: From strategy to planning (Medium)
• These health-conscious drinks are not the sugary sodas you grew up on (Bloomberg)
• Digital strategy in the post-pandemic era (McKinsey)
• How Hubert Joly changed Best Buy without everyone hating him (WSJ)
• It's going to be a big summer for hard seltzer (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Deodorant, teeth whitener fly off the shelves (WSJ)
• Amazon to buy MGM, bagging a lion to help wage streaming battle (WSJ)
• What's next for digital consumers (McKinsey)
• TikTok, the fastest way on earth to become a food star (NYT)
• Gap announces new plan to sell home furnishings at Walmart (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What the demise of cookies and third-party identifies means to digital advertising (McKinsey)
• The quality of your coffee may soon be determined by a robot (Bloomberg)
• Oprah-backed Oatly files for IPO (WSJ)
• Walmart+ usage is hampered by customer confusion, survey says (Bloomberg)
• Mall department stores are struggling. The pandemic has pushed them to the edge of extinction (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The state of fashion 2021 (BoF)
• Goodbye blazers, hello 'coatigans': Women adjust attire to work at home (NYT)
• Google, Facebook, and Amazon gain as Coronavirus reshapes ad spending (WSJ)
• Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for first time (MIT Technology Review)
• From the archives (2018): The great retail bifurcation (Deloitte)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy as a practice (Medium)
• Amazon primes for another happy holiday and prosperous New Year (Bain)
• Your next favourite restaurant might not be a restaurant (Bloomberg)
• Coupon-clipping fades into history as Covid-19 accelerates digital shift (WSJ)
• Loblaw tests driverless technology in delivery network (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Beauty's future is personalized products (The Atlantic)
• Beyond Meat's new improved burger hits grocery shelves (Vox)
• The Impossible Burger is hot. Pity the veggie burger (WSJ)
• Mattel rejects renewed merger bid from rival MGA Entertainment (Reuters)
• Mary Meeker's most important trends on the internet (Recode)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why Altria bet on Juul, the vaping upstart aiming to kill cigarettes (WSJ)
• 'Amazon is a threat' but IKEA's digital chief says she has a plan (CNBC)
• This Red Bull rival is now the top-performing drinks company (Bloomberg)
• How Bob's Red Mill Company became a gluten-free giant ahead of its time (NPR)
• Can Amazon reinvent the traditional grocery store (Knowledge@Wharton)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Online grocery has been slow to catch on (The Atlantic)
• Retail is broken. Angela Ahrendts has a plan (Vogue)
• Walmart's Plan B for it's UK checkout (WSJ)
• McCormick hands over its spice R&D to IBM's AI (Engadget)
• Domino's rolls into enemy territory (L2)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Starbucks to offer coffee delivery across U.S. (WSJ)
• Delivery robot spontaneously bursts into flames in California (The Verge)
• Top 10 restaurants in digital (L2)
• US retail REITs review (Coresight Research)
• Amazon targets unprofitable items, with a sharper focus on the bottom line (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Online shopping is making us accumulate more junk (The Atlantic)
• China's consumption downgrade: Skip avocados, cocktails and kids (NYT)
• How analytics and digital will drive next-generation retail merchandising (McKinsey)
• Target posts its best quarterly results in more than a decade (WSJ)
• From the archives (2003): The card up their sleeve (The Guardian)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Coming soon to a supermarket near you (NYT)
• One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate (The Guardian)
• Supermarkets deploy sausage stations, dad jokes to lure male shoppers (WSJ)
• Amazon Prime Day is proven to sell random gadgets. But will it work on cereal and cod (Financial Post)
• Accelerating digital innovation in retail (BCG)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Jeff Bezos v the world: Why all companies fear 'death by Amazon' (The Guardian)
• Silicon Valley wants to cash in on fasting (Bloomberg)
• Grocery stores cashing in on digital trends to attract customers (CBC)
• Popeyes discovers everyone wants late-night fried chicken (Bloomberg)
• Restaurant Brands vows to win back customers with $700 million Tim Hortons makeover (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Who's afraid of Amazon? Not this Canadian food retailer (CBC)
• Is this tomato engineered? Inside the battle over gene-edited food (WSJ)
• What beauty players can teach the consumer sector about digital disruption (McKinsey)
• How Instacart is ramping up its grocery strategy to fend off Amazon (Fast Company)
• Kraft Heinz turns to Twitter to stir MayoChup buzz in the U.S. (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The store is dead. Long live the store (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• American adults just keep getting fatter (NYT)
• A place to be seen (L2)
• Old school retailer Simons keeps faith in beautiful stores in age of Amazon (Financial Post)
• From Buzzfeed to Improbable, this is the startup that feeds startups (Wired)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Online butchers cater to meat lovers in the age of Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Why so many high-profile digital transformations fail (HBR)
• Zara's blues: What's keeping the world's most valuable fashion retailer down (WSJ)
• We need to call American breakfast what it often is: Dessert (Vox)
• Aeroplan loses partnership with Esso as it moves to Loblaw's PC Optimum program (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The Prozac of the Middle Ages (The Atlantic)
• Tencent to back Carrefour in challenge to Alibaba in retail (Bloomberg)
• Will millennials kill Costco (Washington Post)
• Why digital strategies fail (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2000): Loblaw picks quiet Lederer as new president (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Nestle makes billions bottling water it pays nearly nothing for (Bloomberg)
• One surprise standout for Uber: Food delivery (NYT)
• Your e-commerce brand will probably fail (Collaborative Fund)
• Target is smart to raise its minimum wage (Gadfly)
• Restoration Hardware bid on 3,200 keywords, found 98% of its PPC hits came from just 22 brand terms (eConsultancy)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The case for investing more in people (HBR)
• A simple way to close the door on uncertain strategy (Globe and Mail)
• Robo-harvesters gather their first crop of barley (The Times)
• Digital advertising is facing its ultimate moment of truth (AdWeek)
• Nestle's growth supplements (Gadfly)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Are grocers ready for digital (L2)
• This miracle weed killer was supposed to save farms. Instead its devastating them (Washington Post)
• Organic Doritos give snack giant a way into Whole Foods (Bloomberg)
• Carrefour develops first sustainable zero-residue pear (Carrefour)
• Sears Canada executive chairman rushing to assemble takeover bid (Globe and Mail)