Stephan's Friday Picks

• US avocado giant looks beyond Mexico as cartels meddle with supply (FT)
• The fish farming industry's dirty secrets (NYT)
• Kroger plans to slash 37% of corporate jobs in the next three years (Bloomberg)
• Albertsons wants $8 billion from Kroger after failed merger (WSJ)
• From the archives (2020): How Dave Lewis saved Tesco (FT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Ambani's cola war with Coke, Pepsi spurs fridge bonanza in India (Bloomberg)
• Potato chip bags are going black and white because of the Iran war (WSJ)
• Retailers are making expensive bets that shoppers still want to go to stores (NYT)
• Dunkin' returns to Canada after ten years, with plans for hundreds of locations (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart lays off or relocates 1,000 workers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Pumpkin spice lattes, a U.S. fall favourite, divides Europe (NYT)
• Going down the junk food rabbit hole (NYT)
• Amazon to lay off up to 30,000 corporate workers (WSJ)
• Keurig Dr Pepper turns to private capital to back $18 billion deal (WSJ)
• Oxford Properties, RioCan in showdown over future of Bay store at Toronto's Yorkdale mall (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart, once a byword for low pay, becomes a case study on how to treat workers (WSJ) 
• I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played (Washington Post)
• What Hamburger Helper knows and GDP misses (Daily Economy)
• The return of Tescopoly? How Britain's biggest retailer dominates everyday life (The Guardian)
• Potato chip flavours are going wild (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The future of the middle class depends on frontline service jobs (Medium)
• Aldi wants to conquer the American grocery store landscape (WSJ)
• Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies (WSJ)
• A flurry of deals is changing who owns your breakfast (Bloomberg)
• Luxury fashion seller Ssense to seek protection after clash with creditors (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy, artificial intelligence, and entry-level hires (Medium)
• Amazon delays Alexa's debut (Washington Post)
• Trump's purge of foreign workers arrives at Amazon's warehouses (NYT)
• In America's return to office, women are falling behind (WSJ)
• Kraft Heinz breakup primed to split its ketchup from its hot dogs (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The evolution of the strategic choice structuring process (Medium)
• The path towards a metabolic health revolution (McKinsey)
• Can Walmart shed its discount vibe? Its new home office offers a clue (NYT)
• A new meatpacking plant's novel approach to attracting American workers (WSJ)
• Tariffs test Sam's Club strategy of keeping prices as low as possible (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The billion-dollar battle to own 7-Eleven (Bloomberg)
• E.l.f Beauty to acquire Hailey Bieber skincare brand Rhode in deal valued at $1 billion (CNBC)
• Barbecue maker Napoleon has always been proud to be made-in-Canada. But a closer look shows the harsh reality of manufacturing at home (Globe and Mail)
• Costco defies tariff volatility with higher profit, lower prices (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2017): The case for good jobs (HBR)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Building a strong middle class requires high productivity, high dignity service jobs (HBR)
• World crazy for chicken is losing its biggest supplier (Bloomberg)
• Plant-based meat has a problem. It may need more meat (WP)
• Walmart to cut 1,500 corporate jobs in restructuring (WSJ)
• From the archives (1997): The coolhunt (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Hudson's Bay to choose a new owner in the next two to three weeks, court told (Globe and Mail)
• Woolworths is cutting prices. Expect more supermarket competition but not an all-out price war (The Guardian)
• Why America's 'beautiful beef' is a sore point for Europe (NYT)
• The new way bosses talk about workers (WSJ)
• Buying misfit fruits and vegetables can help reduce your grocery bill. And there's an app for that (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• At a Brooklyn warehouse, robots are reshaping the grocery delivery business (WSJ)
• Ontario to allow sales of fortified wines like port and sherry in convenience stores (CBC
• Gen Z and millennials go to wine bars for the vibes, as well as for the wine (NYT)
• How Walmart's Donna Morris manages the largest work force in America (NYT)
• Couche-Tard sharply raises its offer for 7-Eleven owner to $47 billion (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Shoppers Drug Mart strikes partnership with blood testing startup Truvian Health (Globe and Mail)
• How retailers can attract and retain a strong frontline workforce in 2024 (McKinsey)
• Kroger-Albertsons deal is haunted by 'spectacular' previous failure (BloombergBloomberg)
• Plan Automation seeing growing demand for x-ray machines for food (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2015): Albertsons struggling after trying to digest Haggen stores (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Getir set for breakup and Mubadala cash injection (FT)
• Canada's boss economy: What explains the boom in management jobs (Globe and Mail)
• Go woke, go broke? Not a chance, say Ben and Jerry (WSJ)
• BoC's Macklem says Canadian economy appears to be on track for soft landing (Globe and Mail)
• Every year, StatsCan tweaks how it calculates inflation. Here's what you need to know about this year's changes (CBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Yes, Walmart store managers really can make $500,000 a year (Bloomberg)
• Orange juice crisis prompts search for alternate fruits (Bloomberg)
• The restaurant world still has a child care problem (Eater)
• The king crab kings (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2021): Pellet ice is the good ice (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Hot honey is the king of condiments (NYT)
• Is Temu legit (The Strategist)
• What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can teach us about the future of work (Vox)
• Amazon's new fee on sellers likened to 'kick in the gut' (Bloomberg)
• The hot business of cold storage (Sherwood)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Tim Hortons parent reports 18% profit boost on strong demand (Globe and Mail)
• Getir, a rapid grocery delivery service, exits the U.S. and Europe (NYT)
• Hudson's Bay cuts dozens of jobs, cites pressures on retail sector (Globe and Mail)
• Same-store sales drop at Starbucks, pushing revenue down 1.8% (NYT)
• McDonald's posts rare quarterly miss as customers turn picky (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Brands are concerned about how they're perceived by ChatGPT (Fast Company)
• Daniel Kahneman: The unlikely economist (Morningstar)
• Here's who should pay for everyone's Ozempic (Slate)
• People are fed up with Loblaw's store prices. Would a boycott accomplish anything (CBC)
• Canada's unemployment rate jumps to 6.1% as job creation stalls (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The magnificent seven stocks (Medium)
• The economics of smaller groceries (NYT)
• The skyrocketing costs driving cheeseburger prices up - and restaurant owners out (WSJ)
• The Body Shop to cut more than 200 jobs in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Macy's stores aren't fun places to shop. It's new CEO wants to fix that (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The life and death of the American mall (Atlas Obscura)
• To cure burnout, embrace seasonality (NYT)
• How Bob Moore, of Bob's Red Mill, got grocery store famous (NYT)
• Tesco changes how it shows Clubcard prices after row (BBC)
• From the archives (2014): The couple that transformed the way we shop (BBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The strategic leverage of where to play (Medium)
• Why Walmart pays its truck drivers six figures (Freight Waves)
• Where Southerners go to fill the tank and feed the family (NYT)
• Leon's Furniture plans to build new Toronto neighbourhood with nearly 4,000 housing units (Globe and Mail)
• Hottest job in Corporate America? The executive in charge of A.I. (NYT)