Stephan's Friday Picks

• Delivering the strategy: The COO agenda (McKinsey)
• Target's slide from cheap chic to dull chore (WSJ)
• Licking this 'lollipop' will allow you to taste virtual flavours (Ars Technica)
• Kohl's CEO gives a mea culpa (WSJ)
• From the archives (2016): How a hedge fund saved Olive Garden by fixing its breadsticks (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Taylor Swift's new Era's tour book might be Target's Black Friday megahit (WSJ)
• Beef prices hit record high at the grocery store - and on the ranch too (CBC)
• Amazon's moonshot plan to rival Nvidia in AI chips (Bloomberg)
• Businesses face stiff competition for price-sensitive holidays hoppers (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart, once eager to promote diversity, pulls back amid conservative pressure (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon invests $4 billion in Anthropic, deepening its A.I. ties (NYT)
• Are value meals worth it for restaurants (WSJ)
• Why luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals (BBC)
• These bricks-and-mortar stores are thriving in an online world (WSJ)
• Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Generating strategy possibilities (Medium)
• Macy's discovers employee hid millions in delivery expenses (NYT)
• A nostalgic tour of the New York department store (The Strategist)
• The shopping method that isn't going anywhere (The Atlantic)
• The hidden truth linking the broken border to your online shopping cart (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Maple Leaf Foods suing Canada  Bread, parent company, for defamation related to alleged price-fixing scheme (Globe and Mail)
• Instacart CEO says Wall Street undervalues grocery tech bet (Bloomberg)
• McCain's Max Koeune is building the farm of the future (Globe and Mail)
• Asda appoints former boss Leighton to help turn struggling retailer around (Bloomberg)
• Annual beauty advent calendar craze is changing how cosmetics brands court new shoppers (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Trudeau announces two-month partial GST holiday, $250 cheques for many Canadians (Globe and Mail)
• How Froot Loops landed at the centre of U.S. food politics (WSJ)
• Don't get out of the points game, says the Points Guy (Bloomberg)
• Walmart and Target: A tale of two retailers (WSJ)
• From the archives (2010): Tesco's triumphs under Sir Terry (BBC)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Metro plans to open more discount stores next as inflation-hit shoppers hunt for value (Globe and Mail)
• Target's stock plunges 21% on weak sales ahead of holiday season (NYT)
• Alleged potato cartel accused of conspiring to raise prices of frozen fries, tater tots across U.S. (CBC)
• Ozempic could crush the junk food industry. But it is fighting back (NYT)
• Canada's largest bottled water producer to pull out of Ontario (Globe and Mail)