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 Friday Picks

• Tesco braces for price war with rivals (FT)
• Multiple potential Hudson's Bay bidders interested in sale (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart's missing prices show trade chaos coming for consumers (Bloomberg)
• Is the restaurant good? Or does it just look good (NYT)
• From the archives (2015): Tesco posts $9.5 billion loss in latest hurdle (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Weston, McCain met to discuss bread prices, plaintiffs in class action lawsuit allege (Globe and Mail)
• Large grocers took advantage of pandemic supply chain disruptions, F.T.C says (NYT)
• Poland's grocery price war is spurring losses in retailer shares (Bloomberg)
• With TikTok under fire, brands that rely on it worry (NYT)
• Food weaponization makes a deadly comeback (Foreign Affairs)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Why 'execution' is a bankrupt management concept (Medium)
• In defense of IRL shopping (The Atlantic)
• Activist Loeb may seek board changes at Bath & Body Works (Bloomberg)
• How retailers in Europe are navigating inflation (McKinsey)
• UK supermarkets launch Christmas price war with 19p veg offer (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Are there enough strawberries in a Kellogg's Strawberry Pop-Tart? A court might decide (WSJ)
• Why strawberries turn a ghostly shade of white (NYT)
• Banana price war in UK supermarkets is hurting farmers, growers warn (The Guardian)
• The plexiglass barrier problem (Maclean's)
• From the archives (2018): The unknown entrepreneur who built UPS (American Business History Center)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The world's first 3D printed ribeye is unveiled (Washington Post)
• IKEA branches out into consumer banking with Ikano bank deal (Globe and Mail)
• TikTok sale to Oracle, Walmart gets shelved (WSJ)
• Sainsbury's takes on Aldi in price war (BBC)
• From the archives (1999): RJR Nabisco, an epilogue (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Outfoxed by small-batch upstarts, Unilever decides to imitate them (WSJ)
• The Germans are escalating America's grocery price war (Bloomberg)
• Whole Foods places new limits on suppliers, upsetting some small vendors (Washington Post)
• The world's largest clothing maker isn't betting on automation replacing cheap human labour (Quartz)
• Once-hungry investors pass on meal-kit startups (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Hello Fresh food revolution (Bloomberg)
• US grocers count pennies as discounters wage price war (FT)
• Brussels declares war on supermarkets (Politico)
• Why retailers should retire holiday season (HBR)
• Nelson Peltz loses P&G proxy vote (Gadfly)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Britain's supermarkets don't want to be supermarkets (Gadfly)
• Sears CEO Eddie Lampert wary of 'opportunistic suppliers' (Globe and Mail)
• The beautiful upside of ugly produce (Civil Eats)
• Is the Amazon effect overrated (Forbes)
• Aldi ready for supermarket price war (The Guardian)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Aldi raises stakes in U.S. price war with Walmart (Reuters)
• The curse of the consultants is spreading fast (Financial Times)
• Coke's new CEO must win over a new generation that shuns sugar (Bloomberg)
• Amazon goes north, forcing Canadian retailers out of hibernation (Bloomberg)
• Adidas sells golf business for $425 million (ESPN)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Beauty and the e-commerce beast (AT Kearney)
• This sweater company is breaking a cashmere cartel (Bloomberg)
• Distortions and deceptions in strategic decisions (McKinsey)
• How to win a price war (MIT SMR)
• Staples, Payless, Bebe: Stores closing at an epic pace (CNN)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart's grocery price wars (Pymnts)
• Women and men now grocery shop regularly: Study (Progressive Grocer)
• Juice wars: Juicero has sued another juice maker for patent infringement (Ars Technica)
• Unilever buys Sir Kensington's, maker of fancy ketchup (NYT)
• How 7-Eleven will beat worker blues (Gadfly)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How online shopping makes suckers of us all (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw sells chain of 213 gas stations to Brookfield for $540 million (CBC)
• Silicon Valley's $400 juicer may be feeling the squeeze (Bloomberg)
• Walmart's bargain bin e-commerce plan (Gadfly)
• Primark plans biggest expansion in decade as chain's sales soar (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon wants Cheerios, Oreos, and other brands to bypass Walmart (Bloomberg)
• Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that are terrifying America's biggest brands (Recode)
• Is it too late for Sears to save itself (HBR)
• The death of the daily deal (K@W)
• Johnson and Johnson have a baby powder problem (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• No laptop, no phone, no desk: UBS reinvents the work space (NYT)
• Walgreens sues Theranos, seeks $300 million in damages (WSJ)
• Your supermarket bill is set to go down further as grocers fight for market share (Financial Post)
• Walmart is beefing up inventory to win Black Friday (Fortune)
• The changing market for food delivery (MQ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How 'Cage-Free' hens live (NYT)
• Why grocery stores are pushing packaged foods to the perimeter (Canadian Grocer)
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (WaPo)
• Tesco fires opening salvo at Sainsbury's in Christmas toy battle (Bloomberg)
• Aldi is fixing a major weakness and coming straight for Whole Foods (Business Insider)
• Alibaba launches 'Singles Day' promotions three weeks early (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Best Global Brands 2016 Rankings (Interbrand)
• Food prices are falling. How are customers benefiting? (WaPo)
• What it takes to build a data-driven customer insights approach (CMO)
• Clayton Christensen has a new theory (WSJ)
• Unilever: The biggest digital start-up in the world? (Econsultancy)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The end of meat? (FP)
• Grocery prices are plunging (Bloomberg)
• The future belongs to the bold (Deloitte)
• The Provigo son returns (CG)
• A food tax leads to healthier choices (HBR)
• The coffee wars (WSJ)
• Global payments 2016 (BCG)