Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Innovation-driven change (Medium)
• The evolution of commerce media: Navigating a new era in advertising (McKinsey)
• Starbucks reshuffles leadership in bid to accelerate turnaround (Bloomberg)
• Walmart CFO says shoppers remain focused on food, essentials (Bloomberg)
• That's bananas! Why it might be harder or pricier to find some brands in grocery stores (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• H&M billionaire quietly moves brand towards private ownership (Bloomberg)
• Walmart goes big with drone delivery expansion (Wired)
• Hudson's Bay stores close in Canada (NYT)
• When they stop selling your favourite thing (NYT)
• How a hazelnut spread became a sticking point in Franco-Algerian relations (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Gen Z doesn't want to start a bar tab (NYT)
• Court approves Canadian Tire's $30 million acquisition of Hudson's Bay assets (Globe and Mail)
• P&G plans to cut over 15% of office jobs over the next two years (Bloomberg)
• Lawsuit accuses Popeyes of selling 'unsafe' chicken on Ontario restaurants (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2021): Pellet ice is the good ice (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A food reckoning is coming (The Atlantic)
• As cash fades, small retailers embrace efforts to rein in swipe fees (NYT)
• Hudson's Bay demise leaves large swath of empty real estate in its wake (Globe and Mail)
• Consumers are financing their groceries. What does that say about the economy (NYT)
• Retailers, ducking trade war curve balls, stick to their plans (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How AI is changing how chefs cook (NYT)
• DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is taking on the role of industry consolidator (CNBC)
• Soaring costs expose a trans-Atlantic chocolate divide (WSJ)
• Amazon hit by German warning over price controls on marketplace (Bloomberg)
• The $2 trillion global wellness market gets a millennial and Gen Z glow-up (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Thinking more strategically about where to play (Medium)
• Building a destination for pet parents (McKinsey)
• Meet the pastry chef known as the 'Scone Master' (Globe and Mail)
• Life's ancient bottleneck (Quillette)
• Snack maker sues Aldi grocery chain over look-alike product packaging (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Inside the final days of Hudson's Bay (Globe and Mail)
• The plan that could have saved Hudson's Bay as we know it (Globe and Mail)
• She always felt like an outsider. Now it's this CEO's superpower (WSJ)
• Aldi owners holding talks about possible merger (Bloomberg)
  
• Retailers flex their vocabulary to war of potential tariff-driven price hikes (WSJ)