Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Toronto-based sushi-chain Bento plans IPO on TSX (CBC)
• Nestle's Maggi cuts salt to curry favour with health conscious (Bloomberg)
• The secret life of the aluminum can, a feat of engineering (Wired)
• How a gene editing tool went from labs to a middle school classroom (NPR)
• Smucker to acquire the Wesson Oil brand from Conagra for $285 million (J.M. Smucker)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Eataly opens giant Moscow shop with no parmesan or Pama ham (Bloomberg)
• How corporate values get hijacked and misused (HBR)
• China is building some of the world's biggest packaged food companies (Bloomberg)
• The plant-based meatless burger is coming to the meat aisle of its first grocery chain (Quartz)
• Food fight: Jeff York is growing the Farm Boy chain one chef-prepared meal at a time (Financial Post)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Upgrading the payments grid: The payoffs are greater than you think (Bank of Canada)
• The curious case of the disappearing nuts (Outside Online)
• Food megabrands to smaller rivals: Can't beat em, join em (Investopedia)
• The grocery shopping revolution (Consumer Reports)
• Consumers throw out over 40% of bagged leaves (The Guardian)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Drones go to work (HBR)
• Target is said to invest $75 million in bedding startup Casper (Bloomberg)
• Kimbal Musk says food is the new internet (WSJ)
• Food tech patent watch: Pizza robots, synthetic meats, and more (CB Insights)
• Sears posts profit on Craftsman sale, cost cuts (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The business logic in debiasing (McKinsey)
• Amazon sets up shop in the heart of the publishing industry (NYT)
• The future of Whole Foods isn't about groceries (Bloomberg)
• The rice industry is furious at the existence of 'cauliflower rice' (Quartz)
• Does corporate storytelling work? Some mega-brands say no (Mark Schaefer)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Consumer and retail M&A in 2017 (AT Kearney)
• Chinese online retailer JD.com is developing heavy-duty delivery drones (WSJ)
• Many workers at 'world changing' tech companies may as well work at Walmart (Quartz)
• The wondrous, and completely terrifying world of food (Fast Company)
• General Mills loses the culture wars (Fortune)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Paul Polman: 'I could boost Unilever's shares. But cutting costs is not our way' (The Guardian)
• The art of war with Amazon (BoF)
• James Quincey, Coca-Cola CEO, on why brands have to take a stand (Financial Times)
• The never-ending battle for space on Canada's grocery shelves (Globe and Mail)
• The power of consumer stories in digital marketing (MIT SMR)