Stephan's Friday Picks

• Shoppers Drug Mart strikes partnership with blood testing startup Truvian Health (Globe and Mail)
• How retailers can attract and retain a strong frontline workforce in 2024 (McKinsey)
• Kroger-Albertsons deal is haunted by 'spectacular' previous failure (BloombergBloomberg)
• Plan Automation seeing growing demand for x-ray machines for food (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2015): Albertsons struggling after trying to digest Haggen stores (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Kraft Heinz names new North American CMO amid moves to make its foods healthier (WSJ)
• What was up with grocery prices (\Liberty Street Economics)
• Rise in sales at Quebec liquor storesnear Ontario amid LCBO strike (Globe and Mail)
• The secret meaning of Prime Day (The Atlantic)
• EssilorLuxxotica taps streetwear audience with Supreme deal (Reuters)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Think your grocery bill is high? Try eating gluten-free (CBC)
• Amazon's Prime Day is a 'major cause of injuries' for workers, Senate probe finds (WSJ)
• Pete Wells is stepping down as New York Times food critic (Food and Wine)
• Hugo Boss joins Burberry in warning about luxury spending (WSJ)
• Britain approves lab-grown meat for pet food (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Positional goods and strategy (Medium)
• Amazon hits prime time for earnings expansion (WSJ)
• How Joy ice cream cones are made (Bloomberg)
• The real estate scion behind the Saks and Neiman Marcus marriage (WSJ)
• Matty Matheson on balancing fame on The Bear with Ontario farm life at home (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit? (Goldman Sachs)
• Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices (Washington Post)
• Have potato chips reached peak price (WSJ)
• Why America's berries have never tasted so good (WSJ)
• How Janet Yellen became an unlikely culinary diplomat (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Costco hikes membership fee for the first time since 2017 (CNBC)
• The sad future of grocery shopping (The Atlantic)
• Robot-packed meals are coming to the frozen-food aisle (MIT Technology Review)
• TikTok Shop is intentionally annoying (Vox)
• From the archives (2017): Costco to raise membership fees, higher costs take toll on profits (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon says it reached a climate goal seven years early (NYT)
• Coffee prices set to rise even higher, warns Lavazza (FT)
• The high cost of misaligned analytics and business goals (HBR)
• What your grocery cart says about you (NYT)
• US retailers paying premium to place big bets on holidays (FT)