Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Cargill became the site of Canada's largest single outbreak of COVID-19 (Globe and Mail)
• As restaurants remain shuttered, America cities fear the future (NYT)
• How U.S. meat plants became a virus breeding ground (Bloomberg)
• Beef producers are grinding up their nicest cuts, while retailers can't meet demand for cheaper cuts (The Counter)
• How did three meat-packing plants turn out 85% of Canada's beef (Financial Post)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Neiman Marcus goes bankrupt, idled by virus and crushed by debt (Bloomberg)
• Footwear retailer Aldo files for creditor protection (Globe and Mail)
• Boom in canned food means a boom in cans too (NYT)
• Supermarkets on wheels get ready to roll through the neighbourhood (CBC)
• From the archives (2013): REI, Nordstrom, and the perils of no-questions-asked returns (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• What it will take for restaurants to survive (The New Yorker)
• A quarantine surprise: Americans are cooking more seafood (NYT)
• A pandemic is not the time for food snobbery (The Atlantic)
• How the beauty industry can survive Coronavirus (McKinsey)
• American meat workers are starting to quit with plants reopening (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• J. Crew didn't need to live forever (NYT)
• L Brands, Sycamore agree to scrap Victoria's Secret deal (WSJ)
• Will we work from home after the pandemic (The Atlantic)
• The pandemic may mean the end of the open-floor office (NYT)
• Amazon wins business from reluctant brands after virus closes stores (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• J. Crew files for bankruptcy (NYT)
• Global brands need consumers to spend. They might have to wait (WSJ)
• How Tesco's 'doomsday exercise' helped it plan for Coronavirus (The Guardian)
• Buying consumer data? Tread carefully (HBR)
• Quarantinis, bread makers, and badminton: What's hot in down consumer market (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• There is plenty of chicken to make up for shortages of red meat (Bloomberg)
• Driving differentiation in retail (McKinsey)
• Limiting capacity may be a death sentence for struggling restaurants (Eater)
• A guide to grocery delivery during the pandemic - and after (WSJ)
• Why are farmers destroying food while grocery stores are empty (Washington Monthly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why cocktail hour is back (NYT)
• Americans are discovering frugality (Vox)
• Boneless chicken starts to vanish in U.S. meatpacking shutdowns (Bloomberg)
• Two months that tore apart the food supply chain (WSJ)
• From the archives (2011): The Brothers Zabar (Edible Manhattan)