Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Is there room for Tim Hortons on UK high streets (The Guardian)
• Paper or plastic? Canadian scientist at centre of grocery debate (CBC)
• Mondelez serves up 10 business cliches in one sentence (Financial Times)
• How artificial intelligence is pushing man and machine together (pwc)
• The business school boondoggle (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• At Sobeys, 'change is imminent' (Globe and Mail)
• Trader Joe's new $4 4-pack of wine is a midsummer's night dream (Bon Appetit)
• New teams to lead Ahold Delhaize's brand-centric model (Progressive Grocer)
• Hard times for Whole Foods (The Guardian)
• Marks & Spencer and Ocado plot food delivery shakeup (The Telegraph)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Boston Dynamics has been using its robotic 'dog' to deliver packages in Boston (Recode)
• In retail, AR is for shoppers and VR is for business (Forbes)
• How discount grocery retailers prosper (Food Dive)
• Discount grocery store workers speak out against management, unions (CBC)
• Amazon extends growth streak, unfazed by lavish spending (Bloomberg)

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 Wednesday Picks

• How this grocer turns old food into new energy (Bostonomix)
• An activist investment in Whole Foods exposes shifting power on Wall Street (NYT)
• Metro profit beats estimates as cost controls offset lower prices (Globe and Mail)
• Costco to return $3.1 billion to investors with special dividend (Bloomberg)
• Deploy supply chain analytical platforms to build flexible solutions (Gartner)

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

• Walmart's grocery price wars (Pymnts)
• Women and men now grocery shop regularly: Study (Progressive Grocer)
• Juice wars: Juicero has sued another juice maker for patent infringement (Ars Technica)
• Unilever buys Sir Kensington's, maker of fancy ketchup (NYT)
• How 7-Eleven will beat worker blues (Gadfly)