Stephan's Monday Picks

• Chobani confidentially files for IPO, valuation may exceed $10 billion (Reuters)
• Why retail outperformers are pulling ahead (McKinsey)
• Stop calling food 'exotic' (Washington Post)
• The Strategist megaguide to beating supply-chain issues (NY Mag)
• Instacart hires Facebook executive as new CEO ahead of expected IPO (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why do we buy what we buy (Vox)
• Supermarkets are stockpiling inventory as food costs rise (WSJ)
• Subway grasps for a lifeline as Americans shun aging brand (Bloomberg)
• Retailers try to solve the fitting room dilemma as online sales grow (CNBC)
• From the archives (2016):  Meet Brian Hannasch, the American in charge of a beloved Quebec brand (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice (NBC)
• Almonds swept California farms. Then the water ran out (WSJ)
• Price and politics set stage in three-way Morrisons bidding war (Bloomberg)
• Shopping mall giants back expanded, delivery-only ghost kitchens in food courts (WSJ)
• Ocado gains Alcampo as a client for its warehouse robotic warehouse services (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Great Jones cookware and the illusion of the millennial aesthetic (The New Yorker)
• H&M pays price of upsetting Beijing as China sales drop (WSJ)
• Pricing and promotions: The analytics opportunity (McKinsey)
• Apollo considers counterbid for Morrisons (WSJ)
• Hundreds of businesses, including Sweden's largest grocer, hit by cyberattack (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The delusion of revenue forecasting (Medium)
• A pandemic lifeline for restaurants, food delivery is 'here to stay' (NYT)
• Can America save its national dish (Washington Post)
• General Mills warns of inflation, readies for shifting consumer behavior (WSJ)
• Jeff Bezos' AWS 'business miracle' is under threat (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Andy Jassy raced to the top of Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Amazon primed Andy Jassy to be CEO. Can he keep what Jeff Bezos built (WSJ)
• Morrisons agrees to $8.7 billion takeover (BBC)
• The billionaire and the socialist (Globe and Mail)
• What it's like inside the Cargill meat plant in Dodge City (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Softbank-backed Dingdong valued at $6.6 billion as as shares rise 19% in NYSE debut (Reuters)
• Online shift to cut UK retailer profits by $11 billion (Bloomberg)
• Your next round of drinks might be more expensive (WSJ)
• Walmart offers low-priced insulin to counter Amazon's drug push (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2002): Who are the gurus' gurus (HBR)