Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Celsius share slump as namesake brand sales tumble (Bloomberg)
• Monster Beverage sales rise on international growth (WSJ)
• Inside the long, AI-powered quest to perfect Pringle-making (WSJ)
• US alcohol industry rightly fears a nasty hangover from Trump's trade war with Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Burger King's new Whopper strikes a blow in fast food burger wars (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Target to lay off 500 workers as new CEO shakes up leadership team (WSJ)
• Pizza supreme (Slate)
• Red Lobster CEO says seafood chain needs to get smaller (WSJ)
• What fast food's downturn in the US says about the economy (FT)
• Coca-Cola rises on higher volume, prices (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Eric Schlosser: We still live in a fast food nation (The Guardian)
• Do you want your food made by an AI robot (Bloomberg)
• Saks closes in on bankruptcy financing package (WSJ)
• Singapore opens world's tallest vertical farm (WSJ)
• Rise of AI chatbots for online shopping boosts analyst hopes for Shopify's growth (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How new revenue streams are transforming traditional retail (BCG)
• Move over $100 lobster salad, these melons cost $400 (NYT)
• Why Krispy Kreme and McDonald's broke up (WSJ)
• Why beef prices have hit a record (WSJ)
• Gen Z's alcohol consumption is growing in Canada, report says (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Big Grocery wants Ontario to lift ban on 'private label' wine, beer (CBC)
• The fast food gimmick that became an unlikely muse for chefs (NYT)
• The $10 billion delivery empire built on Shein and TikTok orders (Rest of World)
• Amazon rebuilt Alexa using a 'staggering amount' of AI tools (Wired)
• Home Depot bid kicks off battle for $5 billion building products company (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• She built a cult baby food brand. Then RFK Jr. came calling (NYT)
• America's hottest chicken chain started with $900 - and just sold for $1 billion (WSJ)
• The secret to success with transformational M&A? It's the people (McKinsey)
• Kimberley Clark strikes a deal for its international tissue business (WSJ)
• Shop slow, spend more: The retailers hoping more customers linger (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Dealing with intuitive, non-strategists (Medium)
• A sign that consumers are anxious: They're cutting back on snacks (NYT)
• P&G CEO says price hikes are likely (CNBC)
• How Chili's won when America raged over fast food prices (WSJ)
• Protein is in everything these days. Even popcorn (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon's new AI agent is designed to do your shopping (The Verge)
• Chipotle went on a seven-year quest to find avocados outside of Mexico (WSJ)
• Walmart keeps price pressure on suppliers after Beijing pushback (Bloomberg)
• Ben & Jerry's co-founder calls on Unilever to 'set it free' (WSJ)
• Amazon's new movie strategy starts with theatres (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Will artificial intelligence eradicate practitioners of strategy (Medium)
• Why shoppers abroad are boycotting U.S. goods (NYT)
• DoorDash announces 'buy now, pay later' partnership with Klarna (NYT)
• Thousands of Hudson's Bay employees facing layoffs with company set to liquidate stores (Globe and Mail)
• Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurants (NPR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Trudeau says Canada will retaliate for Trump's tariffs with 25 per cent levies on billions of dollars of goods (Globe and Mail)
• Inside Chick-fil-A's quest to make fast food faster (WSJ)
• MEC seeks cash infusion as inventory clearout batters bottom line (Globe and Mail)
• Walgreens tumbles after suspending steady dividend to save cash (Bloomberg)
• Canadian food companies plan to expand production U.S. as tariffs loom (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Your fast food is already automated (The Atlantic)
• 9 food predictions for 2025 (NYT)
• Food tourism is dead, but something more interesting is emerging (NYT)
• Alibaba to sell stake in Chinese hypermarket operator (WSJ)
• Boom in US retail real estate defies prediction of e-commerce apocalypse (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Portfolio and performance: Priorities for CPG leaders (McKinsey)
• How U.S. fast food took over the world - and then went local (The Dial)
• Bakers brace for costly Christmas as butter prices surge (Reuters)
• What a crackdown on immigration could mean for cheap milk (NYT)
• Attention Kmart shoppers - it's closing time (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Big box retailers can't raise prices forever (BloombergBloomberg)
• Fast food chains' value menu wars are a boon to consumers (Washington Post)
• The zombie mall king doesn't want to be a bottom-feeder forever (Bloomberg)
• The billionaire criminal who secretly profited off Jack Ma's deals (NYT)
• All major Canadian grocers agree to sign on to code of conduct (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Hudson's Bay to buy Neiman Marcus - with help from Amazon (WSJ)
• Australian supermarket chains could be broken up as a 'last resort' under Coalition proposal (The Guardian)
• Investor group raises Macy's buyout offer - again (WSJ)
• Costco's rotisserie chicken is now sold in a bag. Cue the panic (Washington Post)
• The fast food fight over the $5 deal meal (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• California's fast-food chains are now serving sticker shock (WSJ)
• It introduced Ozempic to the world. Now it must remake itself (NYT)
• The era of one-stop grocery shopping is over (WSJ)
• Founder of Freshii suing company that bought his restaurant chain (Globe and Mail)
• You know LVMH for its bags. It's also a titan of real estate (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Momofuku CEO Marguerite Zabar Mariscal grew a $100 million company (Fast Company)
• Indigo CEO exits in latest shakeup in retailer's upper ranks (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart cuts starting pay for some new hires (WSJ)
• The Cook Out fast-food chain is expanding. It's glorious (Slate)
• From the archives (2019): From environmental leader to 'worst company in the world' (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• MIT's Zeynep Ton on the case for good jobs (McKinsey)
• Fast food customers are giving up on dining in (WSJ)
• This scorching summer is taking a toll on your favourite foods (Wired)
• Amazon's grocery business needs a massive makeover (Bloomberg)
• Are cooking videos making us better cooks (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• New York's most inventive pizzas are cooked in pop-ups (NYT)
• Tesco board must face chair questions head on (Bloomberg)
• You may never eat inside a fast food restaurant again (Vox)
• Why does everyone want to buy candy on TikTok now (Eater)
• Craft beer's 'drink me if you dare' aesthetic is over (Punch)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Pepsi's new healthy diet: More potato chips and soda (WSJ)
• Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy (NYT)
• Inside the struggle to make lab-grown meat (WSJ)
• Taco Bell's innovation kitchen, the front line in the stunt-food wars (The New Yorker)
• Debunking age-based myths about worker preferences (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Big Dairy is trying to get Gen Z to drink more milk (NYT)
• One hundred years of vegemite (BBC)
• How did Hokas become so popular (NYT)
• Chipotle peppered with complaints over salsa spiciness (WSJ)
• Walmart bets on warehouse robots, dangles profit potential (Bloomberg)