Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The downside of scaling strategies (Medium)
• How the fridge changed flavor (The New Yorker)
• The ballad of Birkenstock (Bloomberg)
• Food companies are still paying the price for years of inflation (WSJ)
• The food fight for Swiss Chalet is a lesson for all family owned companies (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why are Target and Walgreens slashing prices (The Cut)
• Ultra-cheap meals from China's delivery giant are hugely popular. Deliver drivers are bearing the cost (Rest of World)
• Canadian agri-tech tackles food insecurity with AI and automation (Globe and Mail)
• Canadian retailer Simons is expanding. Can it succeed where its peers couldn't (CBC)
• Japan runs on vending machines. It's about to break millions of them (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Harnessing analytics and AI to shape the future of mobility retail (McKinsey)
• This is peak subscription (The Atlantic)
• Mindshare matters. Now markets can measure it (BCG)
• Why Lululemon's stock is going out of fashion (WSJ)
• From the archives (2015): Lululemon combines Ayn Rand and yoga (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Best Buy catches AI fever (WSJ)
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon's success story (Fortune)
• Retailers hate when you buy big things on your laptop (WSJ)
• How Beyond Meat is trying to get its sizzle back (LA Times)
• Dollar Tree explores sale of Family Dollar (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why US grocers must play to their strengths (BCG)
• Canada's first full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina (CBC)
• Generative AI is now scanning your Amazon packages for defects before they get shipped out (Fast Company)
• Companies are getting smarter about raising their prices (Bloomberg)
• Nestle CEO says feeding ageing populations a priority as birth rates fall (FT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Strategy & Scale: Lessons from architecture (Medium)
• Are loyalty card discounts a good deal for UK consumers (The Guardian)
• Walmart Canada CEO sees growth in groceries as $3.5 billion revamp plan unfolds (Globe and Mail)
• Waitrose committed to paying more for cocoa. Chocolate bar sales skyrocketed (WSJ)
• Feeling consumers' pain, retailers bring back discounts (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dr. Pepper ties Pepsi as America's #2 soda (WSJ)
• Amazon to expand drone delivery service after clearing FAA hurdle (CNBC)
• Costco and BJ's, usually go-to's for everyday foods, now gobbling up discretionary market share (WSJ)
• Why Canadians pay different prices for the same groceries (CBC)
• Asics stock catches fire along with its dad shoes (WSJ)