Stephan's Friday Picks

• The war in Ukraine is fueling a global food crisis (Reuters)
• Now there's a sriracha shortage and chili-heads are up in arms (Bloomberg)
• Beyond the distribution center (McKinsey)
• Rising prices are affecting the ability to meet day-to-day expenses for most Canadians (Statistics Canada)
• From the archives (2000): A founding free spirit returns to re-energize The Home Depot (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Blue eggs and salt? Restaurant freebies get fancy (WSJ)
• Lessons from the rise and fall of Toms shoes (BoF)
• Impossible Foods debuts its first plant-based pork products (Bloomberg)
• Lululemon founder Chip Wilson: Under Armour 'lost it many years ago' (CNBC)
• Hundreds to lose jobs to automation, consolidation at two Loblaw distribution centres (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Every Instant Pot user should be cooking with dried beans (Eater)
• The incredible shrinking wallet (NYT)
• Best Buy bucks the trend that's crushing other retailers (Wired)
• Safeway owner, rival grocers, bet on smaller warehouses (WSJ)
• Delivery Hero nears agreement to buy Woowa in $4 billion deal (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When department stores were theater (NYT)
• Can babies learn to love vegetables (The New Yorker)
• Smaller loaves of bread are on the rise (WSJ)
• Next-day delivery spawns Amazon warehouse fix (Bloomberg)
• Cosmic Crisp apple that can reportedly last for a year to hit U.S. stores this week (The Guardian)

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 Thursday Picks

• Pets or people: Big Food faces the same supermarket battle (WSJ)
• Amazon faces a challenge: German grocer Rewe's new warehouse (Bloomberg)
• Battle lines drawn in Sainsbury's-Asda probe (FT)
• Loblaw sees food prices rise, predicts further increases likely (The Globe and Mail)
• Ahold Delhaize strategy eyes Stop & Shop repositioning, doubling online sales (Winsight Grocery Business)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Quaker bets oat milk is more than just a passing fad (NYT)
• How robots and drones will change retail forever (WSJ)
• The fancy convenience store trend is spreading (Eater)
• Pardon the disruption. Field notes from the battle of Richmond (Grocery Dive)
• Walmart unveils high tech grocery warehouse (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Six ways that new technologies will revolutionize shopping (Wired)
• Amazon's grocery sales increased after it devoured Whole Foods (WSJ)
• Alexa, we're still trying to figure out what to do with you (NYT)
• The tiny IKEA of the future, without meatballs or mazes (Bloomberg)
• Nutella maker to pay $2.8 billion for Nestle U.S. candy unit (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How large food retailers can help the food waste crisis (HBR)
• Marks & Spencer is first supermarket to publish data on antibiotics in supply chain (The Guardian)
• How Best Buy is winning against all odds (Retail Dive)
• Warehouse boom continues, sector poised for more growth in 2018 (Curbed)
• How Harry & David cornered the market on pricey mail-order pears (Eater)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Hudson Bay Company's Richard Baker speaks on his latest strategic move (BoF)
• Kindred robots are learning to grab and sort clothing in a warehouse at the Gap (MIT Technology Review)
• Big mall operator does the unthinkable - builds a mall (WSJ)
• The future of your entree is quietly growing in Memphis Meats' lab (Inc)
• The blockchain of food (Forbes)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Southern hospitality: Will Publix's service-first approach continue to pay off (Food Dive)
• Next leap for robots: Picking out and boxing your online order (WSJ)
• AI may soon replace even the most elite consultants (HBR)
• Cott selling traditional beverage business to Refresco for $1.25 billion (CG)
• Blue Apron shakes up executives less than a month after IPO (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Want to see the future of U.S. online grocery? Look to France (Kantar)
• Walmart, Amazon rivalry extends to forklifts (WSJ)
• Sephora is experimenting with a boutique concept to prepare for the upcoming retail apocalypse (Fast Company)
• Betting on things that never change (Collaborative Fund)
• What do we really want (Stanford)