Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Here comes the full Amazonification of Whole Foods (NYT)
• How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff (The Hustle)
• Albertsons launches strategic review (WSJ)
• Flashfood raises $12.3 million to scale its app (Tech Crunch)
• Safeway, FreshCo workers in Manitoba vote in favour of strike (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Warren Buffet's 2021 Letter to Shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway)
• Roger Martin: How to get buy-in for your strategy (Medium)
• A little noticed reason workers quit: Too little work (WSJ)
• Pet Valu announces acquisition of Chico, Quebec's largest pet specialty retailer (Newswire)
• Target is raising its minimum wage to $24 in some markets (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Giant Tiger is proud to be the discount chain with heart (Globe and Mail)
• J. Kenji Lopez-Alt says you're cooking just fine (NYT)
• The business secrets held in India's Nutella jars (Washington Post)
• Gorillas plan on raising $700 million of new funding (Bloomberg)
• The future is fungi (Australian Geographic)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Silicon Valley is coming for your chocolate (The Atlantic)
• Craft beer snobs suddenly love the humble lager (WSJ)
• Shopify's evolution (Stratechery)
• Male investors more skeptical of ESG than women in new study (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2018): The life of a restaurant inspector (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Macy's opts against separation of e-commerce business (WSJ)
• Why is it so hard to find a good floor lamp (The Atlantic)
• Frito-Lay stops shipments to Loblaw stores over pricing dispute (Globe and Mail)
• Why business must heed customer reviews (McKinsey)
• The diet worked for them. Now their pets are on it (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Creating good packaging for packaged goods (McKinsey)
• Carl Icahn pushes McDonald's to change the way it sources its pork (NYT)
• Following rising food costs from the farm to the store (CBC)
• How a book is made (NYT)
• Corporate pricing is boosting inflation - but we're still buying (Vox)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: What end of advantage (Medium)
• Fake meat goes from the main event to trying out for the ingredient team (Bloomberg)
• What we write about when we write about food (NYT)
• How to make your own sparkling water (Wired)
• How America is adapting to supply chain chaos (Bloomberg)