Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate (McKinsey)
• How Doordash uses analytics and forecasting amid economic uncertainty (WSJ)
• Walgreens faces blowback for not offering abortion pills in 21 states (NYT)
• Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues quantitative tightening (Bank of Canada)
• Sold-out Girl Scout cookie flavor hits the resale market (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The seduction of the big-box superstore (The New Yorker)
• This department store stock has trounced Apple, Amazon, and Tesla (WSJ)
• Making luxury ice at home (NYT)
• Weight Watchers moves into the Ozempic market with telehealth deal (WSJ)
• Why Toblerone is dropping the Matterhorn from its packaging (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Cost-effective differentiation (Medium)
• Macy's Best Buy sales decline, reflecting shopper pullback (WSJ)
• Retailers lay out a downbeat outlook as inflation squeezes low-income shoppers (NYT)
• Amazon pausing construction of Washington, D.C.-area second headquarters (WSJ)
• Amazon's big dreams for Alexa fall short (FT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Canada's biggest shopping malls scramble for anchor tenants in wake of Nordstrom departure (Globe and Mail)
• The Brooklyn grocery store that feeds nostalgia (NYT)
• Avoiding palm oil might be harder than you think (CBC)
• Taking alternative proteins mainstream (BCG)
• DC's food influencer scene is booming. It's also a hot mess (Washingtonian)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How to turn data into competitive advantage (MIT Sloan)
• Nordstrom closing down in Canada, shuttering all 13 stores (CBC)
• Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniel's encrusts a Tennessee town (NYT)
• Interest rate hikes have yet to bring down food prices. Here are some tools governments could try (CBC)
• From the archives (1985): Scandal over poisoned wine embitters Austria (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• These companies want to tackle food waste with microbes (MIT Technology Review)
• More Brits turn to Aldi as inflation hits record high (Bloomberg)
• Mindsets for success: Lessons from top CEOs (McKinsey)
• Airlines dynamic pricing may be causing them to pay higher prices than their neighbours (Globe and Mail)
• TikTok made knockoffs cool. At what cost? (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Is private equity tearing the soul out of Morrisons (The Guardian)
• Why retailers fail to adopt advanced data analytics (HBR)
• British growers warn of leek shortage amid 'challenging weather' (Bloomberg)
• Sake is booming in America (NYT)
• Ozempic is changing the definition of being thin (The Cut)