Stephan's Monday Picks

• The weird, secretive world of crisp flavours (The Guardian)
• The race to save ketchup: Building a tomato for a hotter world (WSJ)
• Shoppers discover boxes of Cheerios, bags of No Name chips that weigh far less than advertised (CBC)
• Krispy Kreme opens in France, the latest in a fast food invasion (NYT)
• Rom-com meets shopping? Why Walmart launched a shoppable series (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• A few of the ideas about how to fix human behaviour rests on some pretty shaky science (NYT)
• If an octopus is so smart, should you eat it (Washington Post)
• Too much stuff: Can we solve our addiction to consumerism (The Guardian)
• Should we believe Americans when they say the economy is bad (FT)
• From the archives (2005): P&G agrees to buy Gillette in $54 billion stock deal (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Australia's leading grocers to face Senate inquiry into pricing (Bloomberg)
• The unstoppable ascent of tequila (FT)
• The executives who could be Johnson & Johnson's next CEO (WSJ)
• Overheated food prices have Canadians buying less meat (CBC)
• Plush toy makers play hardball in a competition for the squishiest creatures (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• JAB's Panera Brands files confidential IPO paperwork (FT)
• No more dry burgers: McDonald's overhauls its biggest item (WSJ)
• Unpacking the real source of rising food prices (CD Howe Institute)
• He never thought he'd rely on food hampers. But he's one of the growing number of people who do (CBC)
• The annoying - and hard to solve - problem of stolen packages (Vox)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Market maps make me nervous (Medium)
• Why food discount stickers may be a thing of the past (BBC)
• The chicken tycoons vs the antitrust hawks (NYT)
• Neiman Marcus rejects $3 billion bid from Saks (WSJ)
• Mastermind Toys to be bought by company controlled by veteran retailer Joe Mimran (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon introduces Q, an AI chatbot for companies (NYT)
• Shares of retailers surge despite mixed holiday results (WSJ)
• The great American eye-exam scam (The Atlantic)
• How fungi became an It food (The Guardian)
• Red Lobster's popular endless shrimp deal ate into its profits (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued (Washington Post)
• The State of Fashion 2024 (McKinsey)
• How mortadella went from cold cut to hot item (NYT)
• The 'lipstick' index and the strength of beauty retail amid inflation (CBC)
• From the archives (2020): Why the Restoration Hardware catalog won't die (The Atlantic)