Stephan's Friday Picks

• Demand for Italian beef is booming. Thank 'The Bear' (NYT)
• Reality catches up (Collaborative Fund)
• HBC to resurrect Zellers with outlets inside Bay stores by end of year (Globe and Mail)
• While English and French are still the main languages spoken in Canada, linguistic diversity continues to grow (Statistics Canada)
• From the archives (1988): Chicago's Brennan brothers (Chicago Tribune)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tencent plans to divest Meituan stake worth $24 billion (Reuters)
• Walmart, after lowering expectations, reports rise in sales (NYT)
• MEC to open stores within select Hudson's Bay stores to expand reach (Globe and Mail)
• At salvage stores, the fan base for food deals grow (NYT)
• FTC probe hounding Bezos, execs; subpoenas too broad, Amazon says (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Africa's cold rush and the promise of refrigeration (The New Yorker)
• For Lululemon, men's pants are a secret to success (WSJ)
• Daily milk drinking linked to higher prostrate cancer risk, new study shows (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart strikes streaming deal with Paramount (CNBC)
• Restaurant meals become a relative bargain as grocery prices soar (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: What makes for a great strategist (Medium)
• The lipstick index is back (CNBC)
• Four ways to achieve pricing excellence in retail marketplaces (McKinsey)
• What the great mayonnaise inflation mystery can tell us about inflation (Bloomberg)
• Critics accuse Canada's grocers of greed-flation but quarterly earnings suggest otherwise (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The Great Resignation has arrived in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Why aren't more Canadians switching jobs (Globe and Mail)
• Purina's Fancy Feast opens NYC restaurant for humans (Grub Street)
• How Costco invented Kirkland Signature (CNN)
• Why 'box fatigue' may be hitting the apparel industry (CNBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Does ESG still matter - and why (McKinsey)
• Metro shoppers 'trading down' as inflation weighs, executives say retailer absorbing some cost increases (Globe and Mail)
• The work-from-home revolution is also a trap for women (Bloomberg)
• Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments (Ars Technica)
• From the archives (2007): Slippery business: The trade in adulterated olive oil (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The new J. Crew (GQ)
• Fairfax proposed taking Swiss Chalet owner Recipe Unlimited private in $1.2 billion deal (Globe and Mail)
• Ben & Jerry's tells court that Unilever could undermine its social mission (WSJ)
• Robot arms are replacing shelf stockers in Japan's stores (Bloomberg)
• The dinner tab has soared. Here are all the reasons (NYT)