Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside the Carbone crew's decadent bid for world domination (GQ)
• 'Sugar Coated' review: The sweetest meal of the day (NYT)
• Global ube export ban threatens end of purple patch (FT)
• How do the latest Black Sea attacks affect global food security (CSIS)
• From the archives (2012): Check, please (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Mac and cheese disruptor Goodles to be acquired by Barilla (WSJ)
• America's next major grocery shock is coming (Axios)
• Food security under pressure (JP Morgan)
• The online shopping trend where you buy nothing (Rest of World)
• From the archives (2024): Ina Garten and the age of abundance (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• I spent a week rescuing food from the trash. Here's what I ate (NYT)
• This ruinous grocery store merger must be stopped (The New Republic)
• 30 chefs open up about tipping, Gen Z cooks, and you, the customer (NYT)
• Shein said to weigh London IPO amid U.S. resistance to listing (Bloomberg)
• Macy's will close 150 stores but expand Bloomingdale's, Bluemercury (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What if farmers had to pay for water (NYT)
• How Ikea downsized to go downtown (WSJ)
• The rise and fall of Alibaba (FT)
• The rise and fall of prime rib nation (NYT)
• India's food security problem is also the world's (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• JAB's Panera Brands files confidential IPO paperwork (FT)
• No more dry burgers: McDonald's overhauls its biggest item (WSJ)
• Unpacking the real source of rising food prices (CD Howe Institute)
• He never thought he'd rely on food hampers. But he's one of the growing number of people who do (CBC)
• The annoying - and hard to solve - problem of stolen packages (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Where is the brand growth potential? An examination of buyer groups (Byron Sharp)
• 10 things I know about food - that people don't want to believe (Washington Post)
• The 'Ozempic effect' on Wall Street has gone overboard (WSJ)
• Years into a climate disaster, these people are eating the unthinkable (Washington Post)
• From the archives (2010): How Sobeys is taking on Loblaw (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Ways of understanding (Medium)
• Rite Aid files for bankruptcy (WSJ)
• How a fertilizer shortage is spreading desperate hunger (NYT)
• Sobeys employees at Vaughan distribution centre walk off the job (CBC)
• U.S. races to expand Michigan locks and secure the supply chain (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The strategy lesson from the Bud Light fiasco (Medium)
• Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis (BBC)
• Amazon expands virtual clinic to all 50 states in health push (Amazon)
• Canada's pork industry faces a painful reckoning (Globe and Mail)
• RBC to offer Taylor Swift pre-sale tickets, for her six Canadian concerts, opening loyalty program to non-customers (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 (United Nations)
• Roger Martin: What is strategic thinking (Medium)
• Raw milk is being legalized in more states. Is it safe (NYT)
• The food writer that wants to free the recipe (The New Republic)
• The mango is king of the Miami summer (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Turkey's Getir sees valuation almost halved with new funding (Reuters)
• From Twinkies to Doritos, snacks get tiny (WSJ)
• State of Grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty (McKinsey)
• Stampede in Yemen's capital kills at least 78 seeking food aid (NYT)
• From the archives (2008): Allan Leighton assumes Loblaw controls (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Platform businesses & strategy (Medium)
• Where did all the merlot go (WSJ)
• How to make coffee without the beans (NEO.LIFE)
• Shortage of onions threatens a new chapter in global food crisis (Bloomberg)
• Phosphorus saved our way of life - and now threatens to end it (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• High grocery prices and food insecurity - the system is broken all over the world (Globe and Mail)
• Feeding chickens stale bread and unsold cookies for zero-carbon eggs (Bloomberg)
• The U.S. consumer is starting to freak out (WSJ)
• He's dazzled diners in the U.S. Now he aims to "change people's perspectives" in Ivory Coast (NYT)
• Whole Foods asks suppliers to lower prices as costs ebb (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy is singular (Medium)
• High food prices rile up Canadians (NYT)
• What if inflation suddenly dropped and no one noticed (WSJ)
• Tipping is weird now (The Atlantic)
• 'The brink of famine': Drought puts an entire generation of Somalis at risk (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Syrian family that rebuilt a chocolate empire in Nova Scotia (NYT)
• Aldi sales soar as UK shoppers battle record inflation (CNN)
• Google and Meta's advertising dominance fades as TikTok, streamers emerge (WSJ)
• Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings (Bloomberg)
• How Russia's war on Ukraine is worsening global starvation (NYT)