Stephan's Monday Picks

• Shrinking The Gap: How a clothing brand lost its way (The Guardian)
• Rise of Shein tests and industry's go-green commitments (Bloomberg)
• Surging costs hard to swallow for makers of the humble BLT (FT)
• The home cooks (and startups) betting on prepared meals (NYT)
• The 15-minute ultrafast delivery craze slams into reality (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Federal government earmarks $56-billion in new spending, higher taxes, but short on growth plans (Globe and Mail)
• Alphabet's Wing kicks off drone delivery service (The Verge)
• How to unionize at Amazon (The New Yorker)
• Walmart offers as much as $110,000 starting pay to lure truck drivers (WSJ)
• From the archives (2021): Where mushrooms come from (Food & Wine)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Hasbro rejects activist's call to split company (WSJ)
• The 'coasting' workers who have checked out of their jobs (BBC)
• Instacart won the pandemic but its rivals are catching up (WSJ)
• Kroger and Bed Bath & Beyond launch national e-commerce experience (Kroger)
• Disclosures on nature, climate go hand-in-hand, Nestle Chief Risk Officer says (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Jamie Dimon's 2021 Letter to Shareholders (JP Morgan Chase)
• This is what happens when there are too many meetings (The Atlantic)
• Shein in talks to raise funds at $100 billion valuation (Bloomberg)
• Starbucks new CEO scraps stock buybacks to 'invest more profit into our people' (NYT)
• Your loyalty program might be losing you money (HBR)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy, disruption & you (Medium)
• The best way to de-stress workers? Scrap meetings (Bloomberg)
• Unlocking value in food service through revenue growth management (McKinsey)
• How we lost our sensory connection with food - and how to get it back (The Guardian)
• How much do things really cost (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Instant grocery: Will it stay or will it go (McKinsey)
• New apps offering grocery delivery in under 10 minutes pin their hopes on power of habit (CBC)
• The delivery giants are throwing a pivot party (Bloomberg)
• JCPenney's new CEO is done chasing customers (WSJ)
• Corporate Canada wants Ottawa to focus on real growth, not "Sugar Pops" economics (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Dollarama set to hike prices up to $5 (Globe and Mail)
• Brand loyalty takes a hit due to inflation, shortages (WSJ)
• Consortium to buy Nielsen for $10 billion (WSJ)
• Power Corp of Canada buys Lios Partners to create new agri-food private equity fund (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2019): L'Express, the beloved Montreal bistro where so much began (NYT)