Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Delta variant clouds back-to-school shopping plans (WSJ)
• What Zomato's $12 billion IPO says about the tech industry (HBR)
• Why do American grocery stores still have an ethnic aisle (NYT)
• Deliveroo shares rise after rival Delivery Hero takes 5% stake (The Guardian)
• Much anew about nudging (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Compelling communication for your strategy (Medium) 
• Gorillas: The new WeWork? (Sifted)
• Uber's do-it-all approach puts profit further out of reach (Bloomberg)
• How Shein became the Chinese apparel maker American teens love (WSJ)
• Cargill, Continental Grain, to buy chicken producer Sanderson Farms for $4.5 billion (Reuters)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• The slow collapse of Amazon's drone delivery program (Wired)
• Why stores send you so many emails (The Atlantic)
• Target rolls out debt-free college degrees to woo retail workers (CNBC)
• Prioritizing sustainability in retail and consumer goods (McKinsey)
• Fortress sweetens offer for U.K. grocer Morrisons to $9.3 billion (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The real problem with 'congee Karen' and food appropriation (Grub Street)
• What Amazon did to my hair (The New Yorker)
• Pandemic wave of automation may be bad news for workers (NYT)
• DoorDash in talks to invest in German grocery app Gorillas (FT)
• From the archives (2019): Aggregate confusion: The divergence of ESG ratings (MIT Sloan)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• PepsiCo to sell Tropicana, Naked Juice brands to private equity firm (WSJ)
• American shoppers are a nightmare (The Atlantic)
• The Inuk woman using TikTok to expose high food prices in the North (Maclean's)\
• Plant-based fish is rattling the multi-billion dollar seafood industry (Bloomberg)
• Legault Group announces the acquisition of Ren's Pets stores in Ontario and Atlantic provinces (Legault)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Diversity & strategy (Medium)
• The true extent of America's food monopolies (The Guardian)
• Square agrees to buy Afterpay for $29 billion (WSJ)
• Can the mad rush to deliver your groceries in 10 minutes be profitable (Bloomberg)
• Wegmans to open first Manhattan store in 2023 (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem (The Guardian)
• Lysol. N95 masks. UPS. For some pandemic winners, the boom is over (WSJ)
• No soil. Now water. Just add water and technology (NYT)
• Starbucks is the new talent factory powering Corporate America (Bloomberg)
• Ontario grocery chains, restaurants, form alliance to challenge GFL on privatized blue-box recycling regime (Globe and Mail)