Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• PepsiCo, Carrefour bicker over who dumped who (WSJ)
• Annual Review of Shareholder Activism (Lazard)
• Plant-based has lost all meaning (The Atlantic)
• Why some Canadians are feeling duped about their breakfast cereal (CBC)
• Why McDonald's has been raising prices (Vox)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• An innovation wake-up call for CPG companies (BCG)
• The woman shaking up the $50 billion instant ramen industry (WSJ)
• California is solving its water problems by flooding its best farmland (Wired)
• Walmart abandons plan to open fulfillment centre in Quebec (CBC)
• FDA to issue first approval for mass drug imports to states from Canada (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Google is finally killing cookies. Advertisers still aren't ready (WSJ)
• AI is coming for the influencers (New York Magazine)
• Aldi and Lidl hail Christmas boost from bargain hunters (BBC)
• Carrefour drops PepsiCo products in France over price increases (NYT)
• Behind cheap stuff from Shein and Temu: A hard bargain with suppliers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Jeff Bezos bets on a Google challenger using AI to try to upend Internet search (WSJ)
• Lululemon seeks distance from founder Chip Wilson's diversity comments (Bloomberg)
• Supermarket chain Jumbo says shoplifting exceeds annual profits (FT)
• Big Fashion still hasn't figured out how to pay a living wage (WSJ)
• From the archives (2005): How Costco became the anti-Walmart (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How a super affordable bakery chain became a British culinary icon (NYT)
• Covid slashed customer choices. This is why they aren't coming back (WSJ)
• Amazon crackdown on sellers spawns new legal industry (FT)
• Shopify is preparing to compete for a big piece of retail commerce (Globe and Mail)
• He revived Old Spice. Can this CEO revive a sneaker brand that lost its cool (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What if farmers had to pay for water (NYT)
• How Ikea downsized to go downtown (WSJ)
• The rise and fall of Alibaba (FT)
• The rise and fall of prime rib nation (NYT)
• India's food security problem is also the world's (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How a crisis in truck driving could change life in Japan (NYT)
• Why is LED light so bad (The Strategist)
• How America's diet is fueling the groundwater crisis (NYT)
• Loss of cooking skills has hurt our ability ot adapt to rising food prices (CBC)
• Diplomacy is best conducted at the dinner table (NYT)