Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why Sarah Davis is the leader Loblaw needs now (Globe and Mail)
• How Treorchy became UK's best high street (The Guardian)
• Kraft Heinz CEO, pushing for growth, separates winners and losers (WSJ)
• Discovery is lost in e-commerce. How can grocers improve (Grocery Dive)
• Simon Property, Authentic Brands consider buying Forever 21 (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Under Armour lost its edge (NYT)
• Bathroom brands need to come clean on recycling (The Guardian)
• Nestle buys Allergan business to expand in medical nutrition (Reuters)
• Canopy delays cannabis beverage launch at most inopportune time (Bloomberg)
• Halo Top does keto; craft beer taps into oat milk craze (Food Dive)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The future of work in CPG (McKinsey)
• They changed the way you buy the basics (NYT)
• Food delivery services feeling pressure to finally turn a profit (Fortune)
• The pharmacist is out: Supermarkets closing pharmacy counters (WSJ)
• Get ready for a direct-to-consumer shakeout in 2020 (Venture Beat)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Shopify, the e-commerce company that's coming for Amazon (Vox)
• Tesco's plastics purge: What took so long (The Guardian)
• Greeting cards retailer files for bankruptcy, plans to close stores (WSJ)
• How private equity wrecked New York's favourite grocery (Bloomberg)
• Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck is $2 again (in California) (Food & Wine)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• After culinary and literary acclaim, she's moving to the woods (NYT) 
• Why Americans call ethnic foods by the wrong name (Quartz)
• The true story of Q (Taiwan Business Topics)
• In 1930s New York, the mayor took on the mafia by banning artichokes (Gastro Obscura)
• From the archives (2005): Canadian Tire banks on Q (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Low on food, blizzard-weary St. John's shoppers head straight to supermarkets (CBC)
• People still want plastic bottles, says Coca-Cola (BBC)
• Aldi to become UK's 'best-paying supermarket' (The Guardian)
• Ola proved itself smarter than Uber in India's food tech space (Quartz)
• Is a supermarket discount coupon worth giving away your privacy (LA Times)

Stephan's Wednesday Pics

• God save lard bread (Taste)
• Sears woes hit hometown stores (WSJ)
• Uber sells its food delivery business in India to Zomato (BBC)
• How Jean-Georges Vongerichten went from 'no-good kid' to 4-star chef (NYT)
• Our current food system can only feed 3.4 billion people sustainably (The New Scientist)