Stephan's Friday Picks

• CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat (CBC)
• Tesco backs profit target after Christmas sales growth (WSJ)
• 7-Eleven owner reports profit drop, keeps guidance (WSJ)
• Ottawa targets raft of U.S. goods, including steel products and Florida orange juice, for tariffs (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2005): Wal-Mart: A progressive success story (Jason Furman)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Dinner is terrible (The Atlantic)
• Harnessing revenue growth management for sustainable success (McKinsey)
• Owners of Canadian clothing brands Frank + Oak, Ricki's file for creditor protection (Globe and Mail)
• Shein's lack of answers on China forced-labour concerns angers U.K. lawmakers (WSJ)
• Robotic technology automating mushroom harvest as industry facing labour challenges (Globe and Mail)

  Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Artificial intelligence and inflation forecasts (St. Louis Fed)
• Putting AI to the test (Globe and Mail)
• Retail is fashionable with property investors again, but only the unflashly kind (WSJ)
• What happens when TikTok's trend machine shuts down (Bloomberg)
• How Shopify went from being a startup to an e-commerce giant (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns as leader (Globe and Mail)
• Roger Martin: Risk management and strategy (Medium)
• Inside the biggest police takedown ever at Shoppers Drug Mart (The Star)
• Coffee's grip on America (The Atlantic)
• Smithfield Foods first to publicly file in 2025 for big US IPO (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Surgeon General calls for cancer warning on alcohol (NYT)
• The rise of Big Potato (Lever)
• In the colossus of beef, Argentines are increasingly turning to pork (Washington Post)
• Why breakfast is busting your food budget (WSJ)
• How saffron, a precious import, became an American cash crop (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Rogers Sugar spends big on Montreal expansion (Globe and Mail)
• Big Retail gets bigger as smaller retailers struggle (WSJ)
• How changing demographics and tastes are shaping Canada's grocery stores (Globe and Mail)
• Toys 'R' Us Canada closing five stores, expand HMV, and add play spaces to some stores (Globe and Mail)
• From the archivers (2011): A historical geography of retailing in London, Canada (Social Science History) 

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Your fast food is already automated (The Atlantic)
• 9 food predictions for 2025 (NYT)
• Food tourism is dead, but something more interesting is emerging (NYT)
• Alibaba to sell stake in Chinese hypermarket operator (WSJ)
• Boom in US retail real estate defies prediction of e-commerce apocalypse (FT)