Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Our ghost-kitchen future (The New Yorker)
• Why the American consumer has future options - maybe for good (WSJ)
• Vegan Mexican food is taking Southern California by storm (LA Times)
• Amazon private labels and antitrust (Margins)
• Lululemon to buy Mirror, a fitness startup, for $500 million (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why grocery items are still out of stock (Bloomberg)
• UK retailers remain gloomy about quick post-lockdown bounce (The Guardian)
• Albertsons prices IPO below expectations in downsized deal (WSJ)
• Facebook tightens controls on speech as ad boycott grows (WSJ)
• Gap's shares jumped 42% after it signed a deal with Kanye West to sell a Yeezy clothing line (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The future of customer experience: White glove service for all (McKinsey)
• Building resilient supply chains won't be easy (HBR)
• Meat producers turn to old dairy cows for better beef flavor (Bloomberg)
• With baseball up in the air, what about the ballpark peanuts (NYT)
• From the archives (2013): Paul Sobey's patient and painstaking approach to building an empire (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• An early view of post-COVID discretionary spending in Asia (McKinsey)
• The future of commerce belongs to the frictionless (Wired)
• Property owner Simon sees buying tenants as a way to boost malls (WSJ)
• Aurora Cannabis to close facilities, lay off 700 workers in restructuring (Globe and Mail)
• Plexiglass supplies run short as COVID barriers go up (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Retailers face a data deficit in the wake of the pandemic (HBR)
• You don't know your customer anymore (Fast Company)
• Americans are actually drinking less during the pandemic (Bloomberg)
• What's got into the price of cheese (NYT)
• Couch dining to withstand restaurant re-openings (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Sobeys launches e-commerce amid surge in demand due to COVID-19 (Globe and Mail)
• How to win with digital marketplaces (McKinsey)
• The Bangladesh garment industry on the brink (The Guardian)
• From Spam to corned beef, sales of canned meat are booming (Bloomberg)
• Coronavirus changed everything. Except T.J. Maxx (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• When bakers demanded more flour, King Arthur went to the mills (Bloomberg)
• Product simplicity for CPG companies (McKinsey)
• This is not the end of cities (Bloomberg)
• The credit card fees merchants hate, banks love, and consumers pay (WSJ)
• How White Lily flour began appearing across the United States (Eater)