Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The Mediterranean diet really is that good for you. Here's why (NYT)
• Majority of Canadian companies now linking executive pay to ESG (Globe and Mail)
• How one family parlayed Mexican food into a Los Angeles landmark (NYT)
• Preparing for the next generation of activist shareholders (BCG)
• 'Spectacular job report' has economists and credit markets shifting views on the Bank of Canada's next moves (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy is singular (Medium)
• High food prices rile up Canadians (NYT)
• What if inflation suddenly dropped and no one noticed (WSJ)
• Tipping is weird now (The Atlantic)
• 'The brink of famine': Drought puts an entire generation of Somalis at risk (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon layoffs to hit over 18,000 workers, the most recent in tech wave (WSJ)
• How McDonald's won Russia, and then lost it all (Bloomberg)
• A golden age for nonalcoholic beer, wine and spirits (NPR)
• The huge number of craft breweries creates a beer glut (WSJ)
• Your stuff is actually worse now (Vox)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon finally authorized Pakistani sellers. A wave of scammers followed (Rest of World)
• Where did all the bargain bourbon go? (NYT)
• Shopify launches new subscription product in bid to lure new retail clients (Globe and Mail)
• Peter Fader and Michael Ross share their playbook for customer centricity (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2004): Morrisons seals Safeway takeover (BBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Syrian family that rebuilt a chocolate empire in Nova Scotia (NYT)
• Aldi sales soar as UK shoppers battle record inflation (CNN)
• Google and Meta's advertising dominance fades as TikTok, streamers emerge (WSJ)
• Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings (Bloomberg)
• How Russia's war on Ukraine is worsening global starvation (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The choreography on the ground that puts meals in the sky (NYT)
• Synthetic meat will change the ethics of eating (WSJ)
• How Canadians got their beloved breakfast cereal back (The Guardian)
• Hangry diners vent over swiped to-go orders (NYT)
• How Central Ohio got people to eat its leftovers (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Benchmarking is for losers (Medium)
• American bargain hunters flock to a new platform forged in China (WSJ)
• The future of retail in the age of convergence (Bain)
• Can climate labels on menus turn people off cheeseburgers (Bloomberg)
•  How the checkout line became a 'maze' to fuel impulse purchases (CBC)