Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Munchery's high hopes led to its decline and fall (Fast Company)
• The changing nature of strategy (Bain)
• The people who eat the same meal every day (The Atlantic)
• Amazon is closing its pop-up stores as its retail strategy evolves (NYT)
• Consumers love food delivery. Restaurants and grocers hate it (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The world's last Blockbuster has no plans to close (NYT)
• We're living in a golden age of classy pork rinds (WSJ)
• The race to make a lab-grown steak (MIT Technology Review)
• How badly are we being ripped of on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all (LA Times)
• From the archives (2012): Kraft to split itself in two (The Guardian)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Aldi effect: How one company changed the way Britain shops (The Guardian)
• What the wine industry understands about connecting with customers (HBR)
• Amazon, long seen as a threat to malls, is now a hot tenant (WSJ)
• How Allbirds took on adidas and Nike big shoe duopoly (Wired)
• Target CEO: "New grocery structure brings "significant benefits" (Grocery Dive)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Emily Weiss's Glossier Play will be the first in a series of brand offshoots (WSJ)
• Face mask craze creates Korean billionaire with Goldman backing (Bloomberg)
• Saks takes back Fifth Avenue (Fortune)
• We have to fix fashion if we want to survive the climate crisis (Fast Company)
• Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi deserves its cult following (Vice)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How AI is making supermarkets less exhausting (WSJ)
• Tyson bets on omnivores with new alternative protein business (Bloomberg)
• Dairy farms are in crisis - and it could change Wisconsin forever (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Erratic hours are the norm for workers in retailing. Can Los Angeles buck the trend (LA Times)
• Canadian retailers brace for rocky year as consumers curb spending, economy slows (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon to launch new grocery store business (WSJ)
• Is this the death rattle of mail-order meal kits (Eater)
• Perdue promotes Niman Ranch head in bid to gain premium shoppers (Bloomberg)
• Amazon discontinues its quirky Dash buttons (Engadget)
• Big birds are so 2017. The money is now in smaller, tender chicken (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside one baker's mission to transform Canada's bread loaves (Financial Post)
• Walmart joins Amazon in quest for ad dollars (WSJ)
• M&S agrees on £750 food delivery deal with Ocado (The Guardian)
• What's behind the rise in retailer loyalty program revamps (Retail Dive)
• From the archives (2007): Strategy's strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt (McKinsey)