Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Tesco considers sale of Asian supermarkets in pivot to the U.K. (Bloomberg)
• Why brands steal jokes and memes (The Atlantic)
• A ban is coming on single-use shopping bags. This plastic producer is not worried (CBC)
• Puffer coats aren't going anywhere (Vanity Fair)
• What the rise of fake meat means for ADM (Chicago Tribune)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The rise of restaurants with no diners as apps take orders (NPR)
• Unintended perk of the online mattress wars: Never-ending free returns (WSJ)
• Palettes are what every teen wants for the holidays (NYT)
• First, Burger King. Now fancy tasting menus are ditching meat (Bloomberg)
• Call it a crime of pasta (NYT)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Supermarket survival means matching Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Now that IKEA has colonized Earth, it's going after Mars (Fast Company)
• Fake meat vs real meat (NYT)
• Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods hungry for a piece of China's meat market (WSJ)
• From the archives (2006): The true story of how Tim Hortons was founded on greed and betrayal (Macleans)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• French fry squeeze hits North America after poor potato harvest (Bloomberg)
• Chew on this: Gum that promises to help you sleep and make you skinny (WSJ)
• Canada's food price report (Dalhousie University)
• Ontario hunger report says 1 in 10 Ontarians can't afford a basic standard of living (CBC)
• The Amazon effect is flooding a struggling recycling system with cardboard (The Verge)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When department stores were theater (NYT)
• Can babies learn to love vegetables (The New Yorker)
• Smaller loaves of bread are on the rise (WSJ)
• Next-day delivery spawns Amazon warehouse fix (Bloomberg)
• Cosmic Crisp apple that can reportedly last for a year to hit U.S. stores this week (The Guardian)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• 'Bags for life' making plastic problem worse (The Guardian)
• How Amazon wove itself into an American city (NYT)
• Long-awaited Cosmic Crisp apples to hit shelves (The Spokesman Review)
• Retailers revamp staffing as viewer shoppers visit stores (WSJ)
• How kombucha went from seaweed tea in Japan to a hit in North America (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• A Montreal bagel war unites rival kings (NYT)
• It's getting more expensive to eat, and economists are worried (Bloomberg)
• How Target became a model retailer (LA Times)
• America's cattle ranchers are fighting back against fake meat (WSJ)
• The bonkers bristly story of how Big Toothbrush took over the world (Wired)