Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Dangerous cost reduction projects (Medium)
• The supermarket's next big product is your data (FT)
• Smucker sets sights on snacks with $4.6 billion Twinkie deal (WSJ)
• Kroger says supermarket sales are under pressure as shoppers pull back (WSJ)
• The hyperreal wonders of glace fruit (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Turning consumer and retail companies into software-driven innovators (McKinsey)
• Here's something beyond the expiration date: Expiration dates themselves (WSJ)
• Fewer Canadians dining out as inflation and interest rates bite consumer spending (Globe and Mail)
• Canada Bread banned from federal contracts over price-fixing scheme (Financial Post)
• Tyson Foods couldn't produce enough chicken. Now it has too much (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Momofuku CEO Marguerite Zabar Mariscal grew a $100 million company (Fast Company)
• Indigo CEO exits in latest shakeup in retailer's upper ranks (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart cuts starting pay for some new hires (WSJ)
• The Cook Out fast-food chain is expanding. It's glorious (Slate)
• From the archives (2019): From environmental leader to 'worst company in the world' (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Smarter retail promotions for a saturated market (BCG)
• Will I just keep spending more and more money forever (Vox)
• Tim Hortons drops new retro-inspired merch collection (Globe and Mail)
• Canada's energy drink crackdown needs more than recalls to dissuade kids, say parents and teachers (CBC)
• The incredible American consumer (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The glamorous, lonely lives of private chefs (NYT)
• Retailers bet wrong on American's feelings about stores (The Atlantic)
• How to read olive oil labels (NYT)
• Lining up at the Vancouver Artizia warehouse sale, searching for deals amidst the pain of high inflation (Globe and Mail)
• First party data is retail's next growth engine (BCG)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: What were they thinking (Medium)
• Boozy drinks blur lines between kid, adult beverages (WSJ)
• Come downstairs or we'll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers (Rest of World)
• Shopify deal for Amazon's Buy With Prime signals growing cooperation between e-commerce players (Globe and Mail)
• Instacart tells shoppers in hurricane: "Bad weather = good tips" (Vice)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The rise, and fall of the direct-to-consumer model (Rita McGrath)
• Amazon tells staff "it's probably not going to work out" unless they visit the office three days a week (The Guardian)
• Dollar stores flash warning signs on consumer spending (WSJ)
• Metro workers accept deal to end monthlong strike (Financial Post)
• From the archives (2001): It's a natural pairing: P&G sells Jif peanut butter to J.M. Smucker (WSJ)