Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Carrefour's $2 billion stock plunge shows cost of France unrest (Bloomberg)
• Hershey, king of Halloween, wants to win all the holidays (Bloomberg)
• Oxford Street's pedestrian revolution is finally here (FT)
• Why so many shoppers think retailers are using AI to jack up prices (WSJ)
• California wines don't age? Think again (FT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Eli Lilly got huge by making us thin (Bloomberg)
• Sales are so low, Californian wineries are burning their vineyards (NYT)
• Trump's tariffs take aim at Canadian whey protein during global shortage (Globe and Mail)
• Should multibuys on unhealthy foods be banned (BBC)
• Sainsbury's strikes deal to sell Argos for £120M to Swift Partners (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Bordeaux wine was the toast of the world. Now even the locals don't drink it (NYT)
• How Saskatchewan's global reputation as a major commodities exporter laid the groundwork for Canada to diversify trade (Globe and Mail)
• El Nino slams into a global economy unprepared for more chaos (Bloomberg)
• Peru extends halt on anchovy fishing as El Nino threat looms (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2012): Charting the rise of the king of retail (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Campbell's defends its ingredients after chicken controversy (WSJ)
• Retail earnings show shoppers resilience, but some stores struggle (NYT)
• Campbell's fires executive behind recording that disparaged its food (WSJ)
• Canadians go 'elbows up' for homegrown wine over Trump's trade war (NYT)
• Walmart is exploring bring ads to Sparky, its new AI shopping agent (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• House of Commons committee tells Loblaw and Walmart to sign grocery code or risk legislation (CBC)
• Young shoppers keep cosmetics hot despite inflation (Globe and Mail)
• The twilight of the American sommelier (NYT)
• The secrets of the pet industry (The Guardian)
• What happens when TikTok is your marketing department (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Claudia Goldin wins Nobel in Economics for studying women in the workforce (NYT)
• Roger Martin: Heuristics, management, and strategy (Medium)
• Should Walmart be data-mining your Ozempic prescriptions (The Verge)
• In Provence, winemakers confront climate change (NYT)
• Home Depot tracked a crime ring and found an unusual suspect (WSJ)