Stephan's Monday Picks

• The sandwich economics of the Masters and Augusta National (NYT)
• Why giant jeans are making a comeback (WSJ)
• China fines Alibaba record $2.8 billion after monopoly probe (Bloomberg)
• Ontario retailers adjust to new rules, non-essential goods off-limits to shoppers (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon workers vote down union drive at Alabama warehouse (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Instacart and DoorDash plan to launch their own credit cards (WSJ)
• Annie's Mac and Cheese is based in the Bay Area, but Annie is not. Here's her story (SF Gate)
• The mysterious case of the f*cking good pizza (Vice)
• The future of of the $1.5 trillion wellness market (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2010): What's true versus what's new (Fast Company)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• After vaccination, Americans are rushing to salons and spas (The Atlantic)
• DoorDash drivers game algorithm to increase pay (Bloomberg)
• Maple syrup making also boomed as a pandemic hobby (NYT)
• Shoppers start to see effect of higher commodity costs (WSJ)
• Walmart's Flipkart aims for IPO in fourth quarter, sources say (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Remote work is overrated. Supercities are coming back (Vox)
• The new shortage: Ketchup can't catch up (WSJ)
• The importance of 'omnichannel' strategies (The Economist)
• COVID-19 re-wrote the rules of shopping. What's next (WSJ)
• Drive-throughs that are predicting your order? Restaurants are thinking fast (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Can you be both cost leader & differentiator (Medium)
• Scandal, lawsuits, and cultural upheaval at McDonald's (Fortune)
• Retailers seen closing thousands of stores, even after the pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Craftmanship: The key to developing talent in an agile organization (McKinsey)
• The anchoring effect (St. Louis Fed)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The protein transformation (BCG)
• Amazon explored opening home goods, electronics discount stores (Bloomberg)
• Those Cosmic Wings you had delivered, they're really from Applebee's (WSJ)
• Americans have $1.7 trillion to burn in revenge spending binge (Bloomberg)
• A pasta factory in Brooklyn (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How the pandemic made lamb more popular with Americans (Bloomberg)
• The emerging markets e-commerce opportunity (Brookings)
• GDP tops estimates in 'pleasant surprise' (Globe and Mail)
• Experience design is the future of retail (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2018): How the acquisition of Grocery Gateway prepared Longo's to compete in the digital age (Maclean's)