Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why beauty brands are struggling (BoF)
• Dominion workers strike after tentative deal rejected (CBC)
• How hedge funds profited from the fall of malls (NYT)
• Staycation summer brings boom to some retailers (Globe and Mail)
• Why are there still not enough paper towels (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Behold, workleisure (NYT)
• The case for Walmart (Fast Company)
  
• M&S puts all its eggs in Ocado basket (FT)
• The future of Trader Joe's looks bumpy (Bloomberg)
• Fashions dirty secret: How sexual assault took hold in jeans factories (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Bias busters: lifting your head from the sand (McKinsey)
• Marks & Spencer to cut 7,000 jobs over the next three months (BBC)
• For Black jam makers, the power is preserving (NYT)
• Albertans are shopping more than they were before the pandemic (CBC)
• From the archives (2014); Heineken's Charlene de Carvalho: A self-made heiress (Fortune)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• It's no accident that Target is a Covid winner (Bloomberg)
• Canada's inflation rate cools to 0.1% annual pace in July (CBC)
• Pandemic fuels home category sales (Retail Dive)
• Virus alters where people open their wallets (NYT)
• Why the end of CERB could could hit consumer spending - and complicate the recovery (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Equality in the U.S. starts with better jobs (HBR)
• Customer loyalty: The new generation (McKinsey)
• The next challenge for plant-based meat: Winning the price war against animal meat (Vox)
• Home Depot braced for COVID pain - then America remodeled (WSJ)
• Selfridges launches first in-house rental collection (Harper's Bazaar)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Avoiding the pitfalls of our same/different impulse (Medium)
• Meet the next-normal consumer (McKinsey)
• Retailers design the in-store experience for reusable packaging (WSJ)
• The future of food media is in your inbox (Taste)
• Tesco to take on Amazon with free home delivery for premium cardholders (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Canada's Competition Bureau investigates Amazon.ca (CBC)
• The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks (NYT)
• Impossible Foods raises $200 million in fresh funding (Reuters)
• Waitrose and M&S fight for Ocado customers (The Guardian)
• Zillow 2020 urban-suburban housing market report (Zillow)