Stephan's Monday Picks

• Rise of delivery apps takes a bite out of Big Pizza (FT)
• Parasitic outbreak puts Big Lettuce in PR mode (WSJ)
• Conagra's 'show-me' CEO says every product needs to earn its keep (WSJ)
• How brands sneak in cheaper ingredients to protect their profit margins (Bloomberg)
• Why protein is suddenly in everything from Pop-Tarts to Cheerios (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Pizza Hut takes fans on a trip to its past (NYT)
• Can Reese's have too many pieces (FT)
• Target accelerates in-store investments as part of turnaround strategy (WSJ)
• Inside the unraveling of seafood magnate John Risley's billion dollar empire (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2019): How Target became the model in U.S. retail (Bloomberg)

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 Thursday Picks

• People are ordering smaller pizzas and fewer toppings. What does that tell us (NYT)
• San Francisco sues food makers over ultra-processed products (WSJ)
• Past forward: The modern rethinking of marketing's core (McKinsey)
• Get ready America, here come China's food and drink stores (NYT)
• Costco joins companies suing for refunds if Trump's tariffs fail (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Target mandates worker smiles, friendliness to boost sales (Bloomberg)
• Pizza Hut's parent says struggling chain may go up for sale (NYT)
• Ontario to ban exclusivity deals between insurers, pharmacies (Globe and Mail)
• Facing Trump's tariffs, Swiss farmers find themselves with too much milk (NYT) 
• Discount chain takes aim at 7-Eleven in Japan with $2 Tonkatsu (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Personal effectiveness strategy (Medium)
• Vintage shopping is booming. Banana Republic and others get in on the action (NYT)
• Major CVS shareholders plans activist push (CNBC)
• Is food the new fuel? Convenience stores look to become food destinations (Globe and Mail)
• Inside Domino's quest to revive sales with 'emergency pizza (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Pet Value monetizes our fur baby love (Globe and Mail)
• Wayfair's new strategy looks built to last (WSJ)
• The future of New York City's pizza is electric (NYT)
• Loblaw's facade of benevolence has fully cracked (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (1999): The inner Jeff Bezos (Wired)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Retailers are trying to fix their supply chain forecasts (WSJ)
• A Q&A with Pizza Pizza CEO Paul Goddard (Toronto Life)
• She was the Oppenheimer of Barbie. Her invention blew up (WSJ)
• The pandemic's job market myths (NYT)
• From the archives (2014): Dollarama can't escape the winter blues (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Asian tech rivals pare back 'superapp' as losses mount (FT)
• If Domino's can't beat delivery apps, no one can (The Atlantic)
• Middle managers are the heart of your company (McKinsey)
• Harvest crews hustle to bring in wheat crop hit by drought, late rain (WSJ)
• Canada's inflation rate falls to 2.8%, lowest since early 2021 (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers - and shoppers who despise receipt checks (CBC)
• Leading online shoppers to the finish line (BCG)
• A new playbook for retail leaders (McKinsey)
• How Amazon became a target of a crackdown on anti-consumer, anti-competitive behaviour (CBC)
• Domino's Pizza is soon coming to Uber apps for the first time (WSJ)

 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

• The chaotic, dispiriting work of liquidating Harmon stores (NYT)
• After eight years, Domino's Pizza gives up on Italy (Bloomberg)
• Activist hedge fund pushes for fuel giant Parkland Corp. to be broken up (Globe and Mail)
• How companies can build an institutional capability to achieve competitive advantage (McKinsey)
• Starbucks new CEO trained as barista to prepare for role (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The restless quest for a better frozen pizza (NYT)
• Tesco to make big changes to stores, affecting 2,100 jobs (The Guardian)
• The junkification of Amazon (Intelligencer)
• Frito-Lay hikes prices again, as grocers warn more price increases to come (Globe and Mail)
• The shipping industry is getting a slew of new vessels - right as demand cools (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Activist investor Ryan Cohen takes stake in Alibaba and pushes for more stock buybacks (WSJ)
• Sainsbury's signs food delivery deal with Just Eat (The Guardian)
• Shopper rebellion against higher prices helps slow inflation (WSJ)
• The latest TikTok star is canned tuna (WSJ)
• From the archives (1949): Pizza (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Shareholder advocates take aim at climate plans as proxy season begins (Globe and Mail)
• Subway explores sale that could value sandwich chain at more than $10 billion (WSJ)
• Inflation peaking is great for us, terrible for grocery stores (Washington Post)
• You don't know how bad the pizza box is (The Atlantic)
• Starbucks' new CEO has tall orders to fill (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The great wings rush (The Verge)
• LuxCo 2030: A vision of sustainable luxury (Bain)
• The pizza business is divided on delivery (WSJ)
• What went wrong at Haven (Fortune)
• At-scale holistic transformation in the consumer packaged goods industry (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Cooks turned Instagram into the world's greatest takeout menu (NYT)
• The restaurant before and after Covid (n+1)
• Pizza Hut launches 'Detroit-style' pizza. America says 'huh?' (WSJ)
• Why reducing your offerings pays off (HBR)
• Amazon can make just about everything - except a good video game (Bloomberg)