Stephan's Friday Picks

• Christmas trees are the hot new pandemic item (The Atlantic)
• Coke's elusive goal: Boosting its Black employees (WSJ)
• Retailer Wish drops in trading debut after IPO spree (Bloomberg)
• For farmers and consumers, a crazy year in food (WSJ)
• From the archives (1992): Wicked problems in design thinking (MIT Press)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• It's time to replace the public corporation (HBR)
• Why is there financing for everything now (The Atlantic)
• High-end city dining turns to suburban delivery during the pandemic (WSJ)
• Aphria, Tilray combine to form the biggest cannabis company (Bloomberg)
• Former Away employees describe toxic work environment at the luggage startup (The Verge)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The rise of Japan's loyalty point influencers (Rest of World)
• Chewy to expand pet products, explores monetizing telehealth services (WSJ)
• Uber and DoorDash to add surcharges to cover worker benefits (FT)
• Here's why it might be too late to order your holiday gifts online (CNBC)
• On the glory days of the great American trade paperback (Literary Hub)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy and design thinking (Medium)
• Asda paid parent Walmart $1.52 billion dividend (Reuters)
• Affirm: The morality of money (The Generalist)
• GameStop employees surprised by new shipment of Xbox, PS5 (Bloomberg)
• Not Amazon: Online initiatives encourage shoppers to think (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Is American dietetics a white bread world (NYT)
• The walk-in kitchen pantry is the new designer shoe closet (WSJ)
• How 2020 turned the store inside out (Bloomberg)
• How tight is the Christmas tree supply? An 8-footer can fetch $2,000 (WSJ)
• Vending machine pizza and robotic coffee in vogue as pandemic accelerates restaurant automation (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice (The Guardian)
• America's most hated garment (The Atlantic)
• Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic (Washington Post)
• Canadian firms sign global pledge to make plastic packaging more recyclable (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2017): Why Australian supermarkets continue to look to the UK for leadership (The Conversation)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Etsy was a twee culture punchline. Now it's a Wall Street darling (NYT)
• The role of food in video games (The Guardian)
• It's time to build a resilience into retail and consumer goods supply chains (Bain)
• How European shoppers will buy groceries in the next normal (McKinsey)
• "You're competing with the world": Small retailers starting from scratch in e-commerce during the pandemic (Globe and Mail)