Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy & boards of directors (Medium)
• Amazon strikes a deal with Affirm, the buy-now, pay-later firm (NYT)
• What I learned visiting two cutting-edge Amazon grocery stores (Full Stack Economics)
• The board perspective on talent and culture (McKinsey)
• The 'hedonistic altruism' of plant-based meat (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Food delivery apps stung by New York City commissions cap (FT)
• Online deliveries take a strange turn (The Guardian)
• Big box stores' other shoe drops (Marker)
• Amazon's department store plans are less surprising than they appear (The Economist)
• CVS wants to be your therapist, too (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon's podcast play was an advertising move all along (Bloomberg)
• Online shoppers don't always care about faster delivery (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• The pricing response to cost volatility (McKinsey)
• We need to talk about the great mayonnaise inflation mystery (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2019): Outdoor Voices blurs the lines between working out and everything else (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Shopify looks to expand reach across social media with TokTok partnership (Globe and Mail)
• Warby Parker plans to go public via direct listing (WSJ)
• It's back to that 'isolation bubble' for workers pining to go back to the office (NYT)
• How Target got cozy with the cops, turning black neighbours into suspects (Bloomberg)
• How packaging companies can catch the post-pandemic wave of new product launches (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• A bubble tea making robot is a portent of things to come (Slate)
• Is it time to break up Big Ag (The New Yorker)
• Walmart opens local delivery service to other sellers (WSJ)
• The farmers market is moving online (The Verge)
• Fairfax sells Toys 'R' Us to Putman Investments, excluding real estate (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Should we listen to customers (Medium)
• Irked by no-shows, Vancouver restaurants eye pre-paid reservations (Globe and Mail)
• Dollar stores are booming as shoppers grapple with rising prices (Washington Post)
• The sad desk salad is migrating from the office to the suburbs (Bloomberg)
• Whole milk mounts its triumphant comeback (Grub Street)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• How TikTok made Pop Its the toy of the pandemic (WSJ)
• When larger audiences require fewer seats (NYT)
• Investors want to know how Just Eat will deliver for them (Bloomberg)
• People like malls (The Atlantic)
• Vertical farms rush to improve kale salad on the path to profitability (Bloomberg)