Stephan's Monday Picks

• Addressing Canada's productivity gap. A journey towards global leadership (McKinsey)
• Are Ocado's robots just too fancy (The Guardian)
• Asda to raise £568M in store sell-off as sales continue to fall off (The Guardian)
• How Fuscia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero (The Guardian)
• Canada's shoppers want value certainty, not coupons (BCG)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Startups are eating Big Food's lunch (WSJ)
• It's time to rethink the workplace meeting (Globe and Mail)
• Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply - by manufacturing them in the US (WSJ)
• Why did Walmart just buy a shopping mall (NYT)
• We need to worry more about Canada's economic growth (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why do American diners have such a limited palate for textures (NYT)
• The free-returns party is over (The Atlantic)
• Pilot programs for temporary agricultural workers extended after rocky start (Globe and Mail)
• The decline of the five-day work week is a boon for suburban retail (WSJ)
• What does productivity mean? Bosses aren't really sure (Vox)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Dollarama became the retail king of knockoffs (Macleans)
• Whole Foods pressured by activist investor Jana Partners (NYT)
• Wall Street's misguided (and dangerous) fascination with retail store productivity (Forbes)
• Sam Adams and Miller fight over the future of craft beer (Fortune)
• How Amazon Go "probably" makes "just walk out" groceries a reality (Ars Technica)