Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Four years of Playing to Win (Medium)
• America's $3 billion habit: Meat sticks (WSJ)
• America's fight with unions heads to its grocery stores (NYT)
• Retail consolidation stifles innovation in food production, report says (Globe and Mail)
• In Quebec, an Amazon union push gets snuffed out (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A demographic time bomb is about to hit the beef industry (Wired)
• 'Food freedom' and the debate over raw milk in Colorado (Colorado Sun)
• What do we miss in standard supply chain measures (Brookings)
• What dermatologists really think about those anti-aging products (Bloomberg)
• Workers at 121 Loblaw-owned stores in Ontario ratify new agreement (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The Estee Lauder family built a beauty empire. A succession rift threatens it (WSJ)
• Nitrogen wars: The Dutch farmers' revolt that turned a nation upside down (The Guardian)
• At McDonald's, a growing appetite for fashion (NYT)
• No Frills reaches deal with Unifor workers to avert strike at 17 Ontario stores (Globe and Mail)
• Bargain hunters set to drive record Black Friday (BCG)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Tackling mysteries (Medium)
• Amazon confronts a new rival: TikTok (WSJ)
• Why olive oil is so expensive right now (NYT)
• Manitoba Superstore workers ratify new deal that ensures labour peace until 2028 (CBC)
• The unified theory of pricing (BCG)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Instacart to target much-diminished valuation range of under $10 billion (WSJ)
• TikTok popularizes products. Can it sell them too (NYT)
• Walmart goes all in on Africa (WSJ)
• Unionized Loblaw workers in Manitoba vote in favour of strike (CBC)
• Instacart is hard to value (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The rise, and fall of the direct-to-consumer model (Rita McGrath)
• Amazon tells staff "it's probably not going to work out" unless they visit the office three days a week (The Guardian)
• Dollar stores flash warning signs on consumer spending (WSJ)
• Metro workers accept deal to end monthlong strike (Financial Post)
• From the archives (2001): It's a natural pairing: P&G sells Jif peanut butter to J.M. Smucker (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• London's Oxford Street battles new retail scourge: Candy stores (WSJ)
• Online ratings are broken (The Atlantic)
• How continuous learning keeps leaders relevant in the age of AI (MIT Sloan)
• Governments have put $1 billion toward making better meat alternatives. A lot more is needed (Vox)
• Metro and Unifor reach tentative deal with grocery workers' union after monthlong strike (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Sam's Club's war against Costco started with $1.38 hot dog combo (Bloomberg)
• Sustainability in packaging 2023 (McKinsey)
• Unifor refuses Metro's request for a mediator as Ontario grocery strike continues (Globe and Mail)
• Are chatbots a threat to fine dining (The Guardian)
• Using a credit card? At these restaurants it will cost you (NYT)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How millennials accidentally saved America's feet (The Atlantic)
• The 'everything shower' goes way beyond shampoo and conditioner (WSJ)
• Shack Shack to come to Canada in 2024 with first location set for Toronto (Globe and Mail)
• Strains emerge inside the union that beat Amazon (NYT)
• From the archives (2006): $75,000 a case? He's buying (LA Times)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Your wallet is being drained by subscriptions. Wall Street thanks you (WSJ)
• Hospitality lessons from a Michelin-starred restauranteur (McKinsey)
• Is Moore's Law actually dead this time (Ars Technica)
• European food delivery shapes up with Getir's Gorillas buy (Reuters)
• Why is Howard Schultz taking a Starbucks union so personally (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Toy makers are betting on last-minute holiday shopping to save the year (WSJ)
• Meet the man on a mission to expose sneaky price increases (NYT)
• If the price ended in 99, you probably overpaid (WSJ)
• Teamsters accept Loblaw offer, preventing potential lockout hours before it was set to begin (CBC)
• Salted ants. Ground crickets. Why you should try edible insects (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The delusion of single point accountability (Medium)
• The future of food (NYT)
• The Great Attrition in frontline retail - and what retailers can do about it (McKinsey)
• Lactose tolerance is an evolutionary puzzle (The Atlantic)
• Inside Amazon's plan to 'neutralize' powerful unions by hiring ex-inmates and 'vulnerable students' (Recode)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kohl's enters exclusive talks to be sold to Vitamin Shoppe owner (WSJ)
• Plant milk is coming for your kids (Bloomberg)
• Amazon fired Chris Smalls. Now the union leader is one of their biggest problems (Vox)
• Almost a quarter of Canadians report eating less than they should due to rising prices (CBC)
• Target warns profit will drop because it has too much inventory (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Weird ice cream flavours stir up discord (WSJ)
• Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse (NYT)
• Tyson Foods prices soar as meat prices climb (WSJ)
• UK's Morrisons clinches deal for convenience chain McColl's (Reuters) 
• IKEA to open more downtown stores, retool big-box sites for online orders (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The Great Resignation should be no surprise (Medium)
• DoorDash to bump up its fees on slow McDonald's restaurants (WSJ)
• How the sugar industry makes political friends and influences elections (Propublica)
• Inflation may be coming for your pizza and ice cream (Globe and Mail)
• A PetSmart store in Toronto is the first of its kind in North America to unionize (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: How to make your partnerships more strategic (HBR)
• Corner stores are the new darlings of the tech industry (The Atlantic)
• The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut (Washington Post)
• Deadly collapse at Amazon warehouse puts spotlight on phone ban (Bloomberg)
• How fear of disruption, 'free money', and the lure of alts profits drove record M&A (Institutional Investor)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The year America's hair fell out (The Atlantic)
• Competition Bureau chief readies for fight to shake up merger laws (Financial Post)
• First step for the Teamsters' next boss: Take on UPS (Bloomberg)
• Seeing the world through a grain of rice (NYT)
• Dollar General to do same-day deliveries via DoorDash (The Verge)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Yandex buys Uber out of food delivery, self-driving venture (Bloomberg)
• Private equity companies all want the same thing: British companies (NYT)
• Starbucks workers in Buffalo seek union vote (NYT)
• Allbirds files for IPO, reveals losses (CNBC)
• Online bed enthusiasts are making DIY mattresses (Vice)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• A grudge match in Japan: One corner, new 7-Eleven's (NYT)
• Fried-chicken craze is causing U.S. to run low on poultry (Bloomberg)
• Unifor pushes grocers to restore pandemic pay premiums (Globe and Mail)
• Canadian retailers better placed to weather third wave (RBC)
• Shoppers returning to stores lift clothing sales (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The sandwich economics of the Masters and Augusta National (NYT)
• Why giant jeans are making a comeback (WSJ)
• China fines Alibaba record $2.8 billion after monopoly probe (Bloomberg)
• Ontario retailers adjust to new rules, non-essential goods off-limits to shoppers (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon workers vote down union drive at Alabama warehouse (NYT)