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 Wednesday Picks

• How e-commerce sites manipulate us into buying things you may not want (NYT)
• Beauty retailers fall as Amazon opens store for professionals (Reuters)
• What's the next chapter for Barnes & Noble (Knowledge@Wharton)
• Avocado prices keep rising, surging 7% on Wednesday (Bloomberg)
• When Victoria's Secret left the swimsuit business, direct-to-consumer brands began to thrive (CNBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The retail winners and losers of 2017 (Retail Dive)
• How do you compare? (Blue Mountain Capital)
• When to decentralize decision making and when not to (HBR)
• Grocerants (Robin Report)
• From the archives: Rob McEwan takes command at Sobeys (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Want to see the future of U.S. online grocery? Look to France (Kantar)
• Walmart, Amazon rivalry extends to forklifts (WSJ)
• Sephora is experimenting with a boutique concept to prepare for the upcoming retail apocalypse (Fast Company)
• Betting on things that never change (Collaborative Fund)
• What do we really want (Stanford)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How to become a customer-centric grocer (BCG)
• The crop that ate America (Bloomberg)
• How Sephora is thriving amid a retail crisis (NYT)
• Food research lab tracks consumer habits (CBC)
• Robert Cialdini on persuasion (Financial Times)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Empire launches major transformation initiative (Empire)
• Unilever strikes deal with rival on bet in Myanmar (Financial Times)
• Why don't people return their shopping carts (Scientific American)
• The wine industry's battle with climate change (High Country News)
• The evolution of the digital supply chain (Logistics Management)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart's plan to trick people into saving money (The Atlantic)
• What is going on at Whole Foods (Eater)
• Instacart is taking its next move straight out of Amazon's playbook (Quartz)
• Coca Cola with fiber reveals soda revamp (Business Insider)
• Dole looks to return to stock markets, again (NYT)

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

• Why Whole Foods is now struggling (WaPo)
• Having more options can make us evaluate risks differently (HBR)
• Kellogg's dumping DSD sparks industry speculation (Supermarket News)
• How Red Bull became a media company (L2)
• Excavation readies heritage Loblaws site for mixed-use density (Urban Toronto)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• A retailer's guide to Black Friday (Retail Dive)
• The Observer view on the power of the big four supermarkets (The Guardian)
• Blaise Pascal knew a thing or two about persuasion (Quartz)
• The end of fast fashion? The man bringing high quality basics back to the high street (The Telegraph)
• Does anyone expect to pay full price anymore? (Business of Fashion)
• J&J said to make takeover approach for drugmaker Actelion (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday PIcks

• How predictive AI will change shopping (HBR)
• The battle for Canadian loyalty and expiring points: Customers will fight hard for what they've collected (Financial Post)
• How behavioural insights and cardboard boxes are core pillars of Unilever's shopper marketing (The Drum)
• What big data reveals about China's big spenders (Business of Fashion)
• A consumer psychologist looks at why customers buy (Knowledge@Wharton)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• These professors make more than a thousand bucks an hour peddling mega-mergers (ProPublica)
• How two trailblazing psychologists turned the world of decision science upside down (Vanity Fair)
• Will Amazon steal Christmas (Bain)
• Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound (The Guardian)
• Loblaw, Metro talks with suppliers pay off in better results as food price inflation stays flat (Financial Post)
• Walmart keeps us waiting online (Gadfly)
• What U.S. retailers can learn from Alibaba's record setting Singles Day (Retail Dive)