Stephan's Friday Picks

• Welcome to Walmart. The robot will grab your groceries (WSJ)
• Almond milk is even more evil than you thought (The Cut)
• Boots launches business review as sales slide (FT)
• Grubhub considers strategic options including possible sale (WSJ)
• From the archives (2017): The unstoppable rise of Aldi and Lidl (Handelsblatt)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Caltex Australia attracts more suitors in possible $6 billion bidding war (Reuters)
• Will China buy fake meat (NYT)
• McDonald's expands Beyond Meat burger trial (Globe and Mail)
• Don't mistake execution for strategy (HBR)
• Borden Dairy files for bankruptcy (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Blue eggs and salt? Restaurant freebies get fancy (WSJ)
• Lessons from the rise and fall of Toms shoes (BoF)
• Impossible Foods debuts its first plant-based pork products (Bloomberg)
• Lululemon founder Chip Wilson: Under Armour 'lost it many years ago' (CNBC)
• Hundreds to lose jobs to automation, consolidation at two Loblaw distribution centres (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• McDonald's looks beyond party culture (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons launches Timbits breakfast cereal (CBC)
• The entrepreneur stopping food waste (BBC)
• Hudson's Bay minority shareholders win after sweetened bid (Bloomberg)
• Cocoa cartel stirs up global chocolate market (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• America loves its unregulated wellness chemicals (The Atlantic)
• Here's why milk comes in bags in some parts of Canada (CBC)
• In a burger world, can Sweetgreen scale up (NYT)
• Inside the world of one of YouTube's most popular food vloggers (Vox)
• Where to find America's best cheese (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Online shoppers learn their own tricks for outwitting sellers (WSJ)
• The vegan jerky industrial complex (Taste)
• The cooking show at the end of the road (Eater)
• How a sip of Coca-Cola could cure all that ails Tim Hortons (National Post)
• From the archives (2000): Don't be undersold (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• For worst-performing industry of 2019, only way out is to shrink (Bloomberg)
• How frugality got its groove back (WSJ)
• By calorie, broccoli is a bigger carbon emitter than chicken (Quartz)
• The rise and fall of the '90s muffin (The Star)
• Asia's richest man unveils online store (Bloomberg)