Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Wal-Mart launches new front in U.S. price war, targets Aldi in grocery aisle (Reuters)
• Dealmaker Michael Klein helped kill Kraft Heinz bid for Unilever (Financial Times)
• Concerns grow that loyalty programs may have fallen miles behind customer needs (Canadian Business)
• The new battleground for marketing led growth (MQ)
• CPG now spends more on digital than traditional ads, but shoppers doubt they work (AdAge)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Warren Buffett's Letter to Shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway)
• Inside the brutal transformation of Tim Hortons (Globe and Mail)
• The supermarket food gamble may be up (The Guardian)
• Giant Tiger and other discounters in expansion mode (CBC)
• Sworn to secrecy, drugstores stay silent as customers overpay (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Consumers don't want Amazon or Google to help them shop (Bloomberg)
• TJ Maxx shouldn't discount department store lessons (Gadfly)
• Turning rewards into loyalty (Bain)
• Hudson's Bay Co. misled consumers on mattress prices, says Competition Bureau (CBC)
• Inside the 'treasure hunt': The five keys to Costco Canada's success (Financial Post)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• At Kroger, technology is changing the grocery-store shopping experience (WSJ)
• How to save a dying mall (Bloomberg)
• Raising the steaks: the Seattle startup crowd-funding sustainable beef (The Guardian)
• Are your employees putting the company's interests first (Kellogg Insight)
• Unilever to review strategy after rejecting $143-billion Kraft bid (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Rollback: Wal-Mart to focus more on everyday low pricing initiative (Globe and Mail)
• How the cookie fortune crumbles: Dare family embroiled in lawsuit over company's fate (National Post)
• Hedge funds' next big short: U.S. malls (Value Walk)
• Here's how on-demand detergent could help P&G deal with 'crappy' metrics (L2)
• Burger King owner to buy Popeyes for $1.8 Billion (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Unilever-Colgate? Unilever-Nestle? (Gadfly)
• Shop or drop. The inevitable path for growth in beauty (AT Kearney)
• Questions investors should be asking low-wage employers (Zeynep Ton)
• Organic food sales soar as shoppers put quality before price (The Guardian)
• These animals live better than you do. Which is why they taste so great (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Is corporate short-terminism really a problem? The jury's still out (HBR)
• Nestle's flavorless new CEO (Gadfly)
• Cereal aims for better bowls (Progressive Grocer)
• Dean wants to move beyond milk with juice, ice cream (Bloomberg)
• Top 10 home care brands in digital (L2)
• Kraft Heinz makes approach to Unilever on possible merger (Bloomberg)