Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Exceptions and rules (Medium)
• Most Pusateri's locations to shutter amid bankruptcy filings (CBC)
• Couche-Tard approaches 7-Eleven owner about takeover in potentially historic transaction (lGlobe and Mail)
• One of TikTok's favourite restaurants is totally made up (NBC)
• Harris plans to ban grocery 'price gouging'. What does the evidence say (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why Canada is on the verge of an unprecedented rail labour stoppage (Globe and Mail)
• In Mars megadeal, Big Food wants to get bigger (WSJ)
• How online influencers got addicted to Swedish candy (Bloomberg)
• Berkshire Hathaway likes Ulta. Should you (WSJ)
• The future of junk food could be healthy food (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Fueling growth through moments of delight (McKinsey)
• Walmart earnings and July retail sales show consumers aren't quitting (WSJ)
• The British have finally learned to love peanut butter (NYT)
• On target: Our food and beverage journey (Target)
• From the archives (1974): Potential implications of trends in world population, food production, and climate (CIA)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Berkshire Hathaway takes Ulta Beauty stake, sending shares up (WSJ)
• 'Stress on shelves' - The battle for space in store aisles (WSJ)
• How food prices have changed over the last four years (NYT)
• Kroger and Albertson's spend more than $800 million on merger fees (Bloomberg)
  
• The end-to-end excellence playbook for retailers (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The cult of wellness (Toronto Life)
• Why the new Starbucks CEO is worth $20 billion (WSJ)
• How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat's climate impact (Vox)
• California's rice royalty is stepping down (NYT)
• Starbucks pushed its customers too far (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The importance of strategic tension (Medium)
• Atlantic Superstores hoping to 'educate' customers with new branding (CBC)
• Boston Pizza scales down in bid to expand into underserved markets (Globe and Mail)
• Loblaw's health care empire is growing. But can it earn the trust of Canadian patients (Globe and Mail)
• The annual disappointment of strawberry season (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Pete Wells reviewed restaurants for 12 years. They've changed, and not for the better (NYT)
• Williams Sonoma's CEO defied the retail apocalpyse. Now a gloomy economy is forcing even her well-off customers to spend less (Fortune)
• Shopify douses investor skepticism with solid quarter, shares jump 18 per cent (Globe and Mail)
• Meet AdVon, the AI-powered content monster infecting the media industry (Futurism)
• LLM to ROI: How to generate scale Gen AI in retail (McKinsey)