Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: A dangerous schism between strategy and statistics courses (Medium)
• Is Temu the future of buying things (Intelligencer)
• Tipping has come for self-checkout (WSJ)
• Andreesen Horowitz saw the future - but did the future leave it behind (The Verge)
• The real reason Mexico suddenly dominates global beer exports (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Big Soda's alcohol drinks worry experts (NYT)
• Venture fundraising hits nine-year low (WSJ)
• Joe Mimran looks to revive Tilley, and it's not just about the hat (Globe and Mail)
• Going deep vs headlines (Clearfield Group)
• From the archives (2004): Co-Op brings back the famous 'divi' (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Can this man turn Amazon around (FT)
• Amazon's changes at Zappos slowly dismantle Tony Hsieh's legacy (WSJ)
• Instacart answering fewer questions than ever about puzzling drop in shoppers pay (CBC)
• Lab-grown meat has bigger challenges than the FDA (Bloomberg)
• Toronto's Cookin raises $17-million to build online delivery market for home-cooked meals (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How to prevent data analytics from ruining your strategy (Medium)
• Demystifying Wittington Ventures (Fire Ant)
• Carl Icahn dropping proxy fight over pig treatment at Kroger (WSJ)
• Meeting Black consumers' needs in food (McKinsey)
• Howard Schultz says Starbucks is seeking 'fresh blood' in CEO search (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Forecasting the future of stores (McKinsey)
• Online brands try a traditional marketing strategy: physical stores (NYT)
• Instacart slashes its valuation by 40% to $24 billion (Bloomberg) 
• Rapid delivery gets some Insta-validation (WSJ)
• Shopping in the metaverse could be more fun than you think (CNet)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Giant Tiger is proud to be the discount chain with heart (Globe and Mail)
• J. Kenji Lopez-Alt says you're cooking just fine (NYT)
• The business secrets held in India's Nutella jars (Washington Post)
• Gorillas plan on raising $700 million of new funding (Bloomberg)
• The future is fungi (Australian Geographic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The battle for the soul of strategy (Medium)
• Ikea is launching a furniture buy-back program (Fast Company)
• Instacart goes deeper into digital advertising as grocery delivery slows (WSJ)
• Wittington Ventures: Food loss and waste - Part I (Medium)
• U.S. grocers prepare for possible snack shortages as Mondelez workers strike (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Everyone has a theory about shopping carts (NYT)
• Plexiglass is everywhere, with no proof it keeps Covid at bay (Bloomberg)
• How food trucks endured and succeeded during the pandemic (NYT)
• Montreal e-commerce retailer Ssense sells minority investment to Sequoia (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Private equity shows Supervalu who is the boss (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The state of grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Flipkart is in talks to raise $3 billion (Bloomberg)
• Rome is getting its first vending machine pizza. Will Romans bite (NYT)
• As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite out of Big Meat's burger (Washington Post)
• Climate change might be threatening the future of apples (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Rent the Runway preparing for IPO later this year (Bloomberg)
• Is New York's year of lavish tipping coming to an end (NYT)
• A day in the life of a flavour inventor (BBC)
• Turkish food delivery company Getir raises money at $7.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
• What are you going to wear when you go back to the office (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The pied piper of SPACs (The New Yorker)
• Booze-to-go is here to stay (WSJ)
• How precision revenue growth management transforms CPG promotions (McKinsey)
• Etsy is buying the fashion resale retailer Depop for $1.6 billion (NYT)
• From the archives (2021): Connected health: What's getting us excited at Wittington Ventures (Medium) 

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: It's time to accept that marketing and strategy are one discipline (Medium)
• Supermarkets' revival skips the top private label brand (WSJ)
• China's Ant explores way for Jack Ma to exit (Reuters)
• Walmart invests in autonomous car startup Cruise (Bloomberg)
• Canadian Tire and Loblaw pay out millions in bonuses to top executives after COVID-19 sales boom (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Specialty grocer Weee valued at $2.8 billion in latest round (Bloomberg)
• Squishmallows are taking over (NYT)
• Amazon to offer telehealth services to other U.S. firms this summer (WSJ)
• DoorDash: Delivering more than just food (RBC)
• From the archives (2006): Solving the mystery of the 'short cappuccino' (Slate)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Jim Orlando: Canadian tech / venture capital predictions for 2021 (Medium)
• De-risking digital and analytics transformations (McKinsey)
• Amazon shutters Prime Pantry (Bloomberg)
• Domtar exits diaper business after nearly a decade with sale of $920 million (Globe and Mail)
• An oral history of Xbox (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Jim Orlando: Reviewing my 2020 Canadian venture capital predictions (Medium)
• Viennetta, the fanciest desert of the '90s, is making a comeback (Eater)
• The end of the golden age of Silicon Valley cafeterias (Bloomberg)
• Can Nike keep its cool (FT)
• From the archives (2012): Loblaw shedding sales to Walmart (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Comcast, Walmart in talks to develop smart TVs (WSJ)
• Marks & Spencer boosted by Ocado revenue (Bloomberg)
• French shopkeepers revolt against orders to close (NYT)
• AB Foods says Covid won't prompt Primark online rethink (Reuters)
• The decade of VC funding that shaped e-commerce and DTC brands (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The king of venture capital (Forbes)
• Sneeze guards, temperature checks are new normal for retail (Bloomberg)
• Amazon isn't the only shop online (WSJ)
• Amazon's shifting definition of what is 'essential' (The Markup)
• Coronavirus hits meat plants as some workers get sick, others stay home (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The milk situation (NYT)
• Why all the Warby Parker clones are now imploding (Marker)
• Working wonders (MIT Technology Review)
• Impossible Foods raises $500 million in new funding (Reuters)
• Disentangling the effects of hedge fund activism on firm financial and social performance (Strategic Management Journal)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The weirdest subway restaurant in America (WSJ)
• Softbank's $375 million bet on pizza went really bad, really fast (Bloomberg)
• Costco capitalism (Bryan Lehrer)
• Blue Apron eyes options including a sale (WSJ)
• From the archives (1955): The barnum of the supermarkets (Macleans)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments dominated math class (Gen)
• Impossible Foods eyes doubling valuation with new funding (Reuters)
• Chasing Amazon, retailers are in a never-ending arms race (NYT)
• Couche-Tard makes $5.8 billion bid for Australia's Caltex (Globe and Mail)
• Meet the $50 strawberries that top NYC chefs are fawning over (Eater)