Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: How to make your partnerships more strategic (HBR)
• Corner stores are the new darlings of the tech industry (The Atlantic)
• The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut (Washington Post)
• Deadly collapse at Amazon warehouse puts spotlight on phone ban (Bloomberg)
• How fear of disruption, 'free money', and the lure of alts profits drove record M&A (Institutional Investor)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The key to marketing to older people? Don't say old (NYT)
• Canadian inflation hits 30-year high as Omicron threat looms (Globe and Mail)
• Asian grocery stores slammed with Port of Vancouver backlogs (Financial Post)
• Holiday supply chain concerns drive some Canadians back into shopping malls (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2019): Do your data scientists know the 'why' behind their work (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The ESG mirage (Bloomberg)
• In the Mountain West, the 'dirty soda' craze is on (NYT)
• Branding the billion-dollar dark stores (Bloomberg)
• Nestle trims L'Oreal stake with $10 billion sale (Reuters)
• The Amazon empire strikes back (Stratechery)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How the supply chain crisis unfolded (NYT)
• Grocery delivery startup Jokr explores sale of European business (Bloomberg)
• Marc Lore plots U.S. expansion of food delivery business (CNBC)
• The dark side of 15-minute grocery delivery (Bloomberg)
• Italy fines Amazon record $1.3 billion for abuse of market dominance (Reuters)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Canada's Food Price Report 2022 (Dalhousie University)
• What does ultrafast delivery really cost us (The Guardian)
• The era of the celebrity meal (NYT)
• Creating a better leaf (The New Yorker)
• Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to leaders: Put away your phones and listen to your employees (HBR)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: The lost art of strategy (Medium)
• Amazon's grocery battle isn't what you think (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens lines up Goldman Sachs to explore options for UK Boots sale (FT)
• Kohl's urged to consider sale by activist investor (WSJ)
• Coming soon: Faux-meat burgers made from maggots and mealworms (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How this all happened (Collaborative Fund)
• What I learned eating from 8,000 Chinese restaurants (BBC)
• How to meet customers' needs in uncertain times (BCG)
• Addressing the sleep loss epidemic through technology (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2003): A laboratory of taste (NYT)