Stephan's Monday Picks

• The rise of dark stores (Fast Company)
• Diseased chicken for dinner? The USDA is considering it (Bloomberg)
• Winning the future of retail with real estate (BCG)
• Whole Foods CEO says many people done with grocery stores (WSJ)
• Memo to the CFO: A new approach to 2021 budgeting starts now (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• It's time for grocery retailers to simplify (BCG)
• Walmart to test drone delivery of grocery, household items (Reuters)
• Amazon's murky world of one-star reviews (BBC)
• 10 food trends for the next decade (WSJ)
• From the archives (2013): Why Canadians are paying more at Target (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The two men buying your favourite retailers (NYT)
• Retail is having a Darwin moment that will change it forever (Fast Company)
• Tiffany sues LVMH for backing out of $16 billion deal (Bloomberg)
• J.C. Penney reaches tentative rescue deal, averting liquidation (Reuters)
• Shopify, suddenly worth $117 billion, emerges as one of the biggest pandemic winners (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The pandemic has created a class of super-savers (The Atlantic)
• Beer, Band Aids, and Ben & Jerry's (Forbes)
• Amazon's profits, AWS, and advertising (Benedict Evans)
• 7 ways the pandemic has changed the way we shop for food (NYT)
• Ikea's e-commerce was already pretty bad. During Covid-19 it fell apart (Fast Company)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (The Guardian)
• The end of open-plan everything (The Atlantic)
• The workplace will be a whole new world (Globe and Mail)
• Generation work-from-home may never recover (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw vows 'no improved offer' as Unifor digs in heels on Dominion strike (CBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Has the pandemic changed how we eat forever (Globe and Mail)
• America at hunger's edge (NYT)
• The sports trading card boom (Axios)
• America's department stores could be in 'their last stages' (CNBC)
• From the archives (1997): Setting value, not price (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The makeup artist at ground zero of the internet beauty culture (The New Yorker)
• Who's winning the battle for India's $700 billion retail industry (Quartz)
• Amazon workers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work (Bloomberg)
• Recovery in Canadian consumer confidence shows signs of cooling (Bloomberg)
• Dollarama sales climb as Canadians spend on cleaning supplies, summer products (Globe and Mail)