Thursday, 30 September 2021

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • C2C e-commerce: Could a new business model sell more old goods (McKinsey)
  • Dollar Tree soars on buyback, plans to sell items for more than a buck (Bloomberg)
  • The inside baseball of corporate transformation (Rita McGrath)
  • The supply chain mystery (The New Yorker)
  • Port of Vancouver sends record number of empty shipping containers to Asia (Globe and Mail)

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: Why do strategy anyway (Medium)
  • The new marketing model for growth (How CPGs can crack the code) (McKinsey)
  • Amazon's Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels (The Verge)
  • For flagging Amazon Games unit, New World 'has to be a breakthrough' (NYT)
  • Workers are putting on pants to head to the office only to be on Zoom all day (Washington Post)

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • UK supermarket prices to rise by 5% as supply chain costs increase (The Guardian)
  • Madewell, ThredUP test secondhand store in Brooklyn (WSJ)
  • Suburbia's bittersweet allure (Vice)
  • Faux meat falters at the drive-thru (Bloomberg)
  • Europe's grocery delivery startups deliver frantic summer of deal-making (FT)

Monday, 27 September 2021

 Stephan's Monday Picks

  • Why does beef cost so much (The Atlantic)
  • Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for (National Geographic)
  • The return of empty shelves and panic buying (Bloomberg)
  • America's meat supply is cheap and efficient. Here's why that's a problem (Politico)
  • How Good Fat Co. managed to appeal to customers by embracing the f-word (Globe and Mail)

Friday, 24 September 2021

 Stephan's Friday Picks

  • Lululemon replaces Hudson's Bay as the official clothier of Team Canada at the Olympics and Paralympics (Globe and Mail
  • The race to stop fishing from becoming the next factory farming nightmare (Wired)
  • General Mills shows food is still glorious (WSJ)
  • DoorDash is exploring dark store services for groceries (Grocery Dive)
  • From the archives (1968): Notes on cravings (The New Yorker)

Thursday, 23 September 2021

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • The rapid evolution of food delivery (McKinsey)
  • Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire (Toronto Life)
  • Britain tells its food industry to prepare for a CO2 price shock (Reuters)
  • Inside Amazon's department store plans (WSJ)
  • Buying into a more sustainable value chain (McKinsey)

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • Why everybody's hiring but nobody's getting hired (Vox)
  • Offices are useful for soft work, not hard work (The Atlantic)
  • Lululemon says Mirror CEO is stepping down (CNBC)
  • Why deliveries are so slow (The Atlantic)
  • What is horchoffee, and why is it so controversial (Grub Street)