Stephan's Monday Picks

• How restaurants defied the doomers (The Atlantic)
• Why cabbage is the coolest menu item (NYT)
• Why you can't get a table for six at a restaurant (WSJ)
• Consumer goods: A changing landscape for successful M&A (McKinsey)
• New York-style bagels are making it big in London (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Analyzing the CEO-CMO relationship and its effect on growth (McKinsey)
• Amazon is launching a smaller version of Whole Foods (Quartz)
• Aldi to add 800 new U.S. grocery stores by 2028 (CNBC)
• Europe is wargaming a food crisis (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (1997): The forgotten benefactor of humanity (The Atlantic)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The $2.99 Trader Joe's tote is causing chaos (NYT)
• Asia's e-commerce battleground is expanding fast (WSJ)
• The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu (FT)
• Temu's push into America pays off big for Meta and Google (WSJ)
• Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady, offers few hints about timing of future cuts (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Enshrining structural presumptions governing mergers in the Competition Act is not good for Canada's competitiveness (CD Howe Institute)
• Grocery prices are higher than ever - could chains like Walmart help (Vox)
• Ozempic may blow the federal budget (NYT)
• The battle over the trillion dollar weight-loss bonanza (The Economist)
• Investors raise Macy's buyout bid (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The magnificent seven stocks (Medium)
• The economics of smaller groceries (NYT)
• The skyrocketing costs driving cheeseburger prices up - and restaurant owners out (WSJ)
• The Body Shop to cut more than 200 jobs in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Macy's stores aren't fun places to shop. It's new CEO wants to fix that (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Cost of capital and capital allocation (Morgan Stanley)
• The zombie CVS, a late-capitalism horror story (Washington Post)
• The Body Shop Canada to close 33 stores, end online sales (CBC)
• Here's a reason why people may be gloomy about the economy: the cost of money (NPR)
• Why Costco is so loved (The Economist)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Corporate pressure led Shoppers Drug Mart staff to bill for unnecessary medication reviews, pharmacists say (CBC)
• Amazon's big secret (The Atlantic)
• Grocery prices, inflation, and 'bad vibes' (NYT)
• Pharmacy association lodges Competition Bureau complaint over Express Scripts fees (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2016): Rexall takeover shakes up pharmacy industry (Globe and Mail)