Stephan's Friday Picks

• Canada Bread seeks damages from Maple Leaf Foods related to alleged bread price-fixing scheme (Globe and Mail)
• General Mills to sell North American yogurt business for $2.1 billion (WSJ)
• Just miles from Kroger's court battle, a food desert shows what's at stake (NYT)
• Amazon Fresh introduces new grocery savings for Prime members (Amazon)
• From the archives (2019): Amazon's press-to-order Dash buttons are officially discontinued (The Verge)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Michael McCain steps down as CEO of Maple Leaf Foods (Globe and Mail)
• Carl Icahn pushes McDonald's to expand meatless options (Bloomberg)
• Macy's is betting even bigger on smaller stores (WSJ)
• Loblaw profit jumps nearly 40 percent even as inflation drives up costs (Globe and Mail)
• How some big grocery chains ensure that food deserts remain barren (The Counter)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• PepsiCo to sell Tropicana, Naked Juice brands to private equity firm (WSJ)
• American shoppers are a nightmare (The Atlantic)
• The Inuk woman using TikTok to expose high food prices in the North (Maclean's)\
• Plant-based fish is rattling the multi-billion dollar seafood industry (Bloomberg)
• Legault Group announces the acquisition of Ren's Pets stores in Ontario and Atlantic provinces (Legault)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Cultured or cell-based. The struggle to find the name for lab-grown meat (Quartz)
• Retailers gave you free returns and you ruined it (Bloomberg)
• Amazon bans FedEx from delivering some deliveries (NYT)
• Facing a 'food desert', Oklahoma City wants dollar stores to sell more fresh food (WSJ)
• How Wayfair is poised to meet massive new demand for home goods - and home delivery (McKinsey)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How hunger and obesity coexist in America (Bloomberg)
• Instacart workers say the app manipulates them into low-paying deliveries (Eater)
• How NASA made Tang cool (Food & Wine)
• Nutrition: The missing piece of the corporate wellness puzzle (Forbes)
• From the archives (2014): The slow death of the microwave (Quartz)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Fast times and fast delivery at today's high schools (WSJ)
• The enormous numbers behind Amazon's market reach (Bloomberg)
• Why the USDA hired artists to paint thousands of fruit (Gastro Obscura)
• Subway closings accelerate as cold cuts fail to draw in diners (Bloomberg)
• Why millions of dollars in federal grocery subsidies haven't lessened food insecurity in the North (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The skin care wars, explained (Vox)
• Costco's squeezes on suppliers signifies pain for P&G, Nestle (Bloomberg)
• Food deserts may not matter that much (The Economist)
• Instacart is thinking about a self-checkout system (Fast Company)
• The hottest social scene in town isn't the singles' bar. It's the supermarket (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When there are no more fish (Eater)
• To end a food desert, these community members opened their own grocery (Fast Company)
• Rhone Capital battles Ferrero and Hershey for Nestle's US candy business (FT)
• Will cosmetics get an Amazon makeover (Bloomberg)
• If you think grocery stores are playing tricks on you, they really are (Washington Post)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• This robot picks up groceries its never seen before using its little suction cup (MIT Technology Review)
• Tesco's CEO is ready for his Unilever closeup (Bloomberg)
• Unilever delays choice of UK or Netherlands as sole HQ (FT)
• Predicting success in consumer startup brands (Tech Crunch)
• How closing grocery stores perpetuate food deserts long after they're gone (Fast Company)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The lost art of thinking in large organizations (MIT SMR)
• Why executives don't trust their own data and analytics insights (Fast Company)
• Nestle pays $145 million for stake in biotech firm Aimmune (Bloomberg)
• Where did my supermarket go (NYT)
• Coffee buzz (Gadfly)
• Food trends and the impact on CPG companies (Collaborative Fund)
• Neiman Marcus wants to sell you collard greens at an insane markup (Eater)
• Internal hires need orientation too (HBR)