Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The volatile economics of natural vanilla in Madagascar (Bloomberg)
• What have we done to lunch (City Lab)
• The loyalty economy (HBR)
• Regenerating New York Harbor, one million oysters at a time (Civil Eats)
• Majority of Canadians think food prices rising faster than household income (CBC) 

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Cultured or cell-based. The struggle to find the name for lab-grown meat (Quartz)
• Retailers gave you free returns and you ruined it (Bloomberg)
• Amazon bans FedEx from delivering some deliveries (NYT)
• Facing a 'food desert', Oklahoma City wants dollar stores to sell more fresh food (WSJ)
• How Wayfair is poised to meet massive new demand for home goods - and home delivery (McKinsey)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Olive oil makers want to go gourmet, but shoppers aren't buying (Bloomberg)
• Barbie at 60. Trivial Pursuit at 40. Toymakers navigate midlife (WSJ)
• Hey Canada, prepare for a dollar store invasion (CG)
• IFF to merge with DuPont's $26.2 billion nutrition unit (Reuters)
• Consumer backlash over plastic packages has retailers looking for solutions, but none are easy (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Every Instant Pot user should be cooking with dried beans (Eater)
• The incredible shrinking wallet (NYT)
• Best Buy bucks the trend that's crushing other retailers (Wired)
• Safeway owner, rival grocers, bet on smaller warehouses (WSJ)
• Delivery Hero nears agreement to buy Woowa in $4 billion deal (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Free shipping isn't really free (The Atlantic)
• Lululemon leans in to menswear as segment expands (WSJ)
• Walmart has made another bet on India's e-commerce sector (Quartz)
• Nestle sells U.S. ice cream brands for $4 billion to joint venture Fronieri (Reuters)
• From the archives (2016): IKEA forever (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• America's dairy farmers are hurting. A merger could make things worse (NYT)
• Empire wants to crack the Toronto market with Farm Boy (FP)
• Kroger, Walgreens form group purchasing organization (Supermarket News)
• Does tapping the bottom of a beer can really make it less fizzy (MIT TR)
• E-commerce made warehouses hot. Now investors are warming to cold storage (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The dark side of recycling (Worth)
• Why the conscious consumerism movement is stalling (Fast Company)
• 2019 saw a dramatic shift in the way America drinks (Vox)
• Big brands, online startups find success on store shelves (WSJ)
• Britain's Just Eat rejects raised offer from Prosus (Reuters)