Stephan's Friday Picks

• Ultrafast grocery delivery has exploded in New York City. Your city could be next (CNBC)
• The ghost stores of Instagram (Vox)
• Why is everyone else quitting (NYT)
• The 'Great Resignation'? It's not happening in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2020): How Erewhon became everybody's favourite grocery store hot spot (Vanity Fair)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The charm of making foods you usually buy (WSJ)
• The great retail reset (Institutional Investor)
• U.S. dairy cows too expensive to feed, causing herds to plummet (Bloomberg)
• Tesco website and app back up after hack attempt (BBC)
• Instacart needs to ring up grocers in store (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Reviving the art of apprenticeship to unlock continuous skills development (McKinsey)
• Canadian retailers take to the skies to mitigate holiday supply chain woes (Globe and Mail)
• Where did all the shipping containers go (WSJ)
• America's ports problem is decades in the making (Cato Institute)
• George Weston to sell bakery business for $1.2 billion (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The rule of fear and the fears of rule (Medium)
• Sweetgreen files to go public, plans to double footprint within 5 years (CNBC)
• Eco-friendly sneaker maker Albirds aims for $2 billion valuation (Reuters)
• Worried about the supply chain? Stop buying so much stuff (The Atlantic)
• Inside Amazon's epic fight for power in India (Reuters)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Desperate for workers, restaurants turn to robots (NYT)
• Alibaba faces new threat: An evolving Chinese customer (WSJ)
• Instacart acquires smartcart maker Caper AI for $350 million (Tech Crunch)
• Which metrics really drive total return for shareholders (McKinsey)
• Food delivery apps have knives out as pandemic boom fades (Reuters)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Rapid grocery delivery will keep investors waiting (Reuters)
• Canada's COVID-19 benefits are set to expire on October 23. Here's what you need to know (Globe and Mail)
• Trader Joe wrote a memoir (The New Yorker)
• Economist, former federal advisor urges Ottawa to ignore business lobby, shut down wage subsidy (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2008): Store brands lift grocers in troubled times (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The Great Resignation is accelerating (The Atlantic)
• Plant-based food companies face critics: Environmental advocates (NYT)
• Jana Partners takes stake in Macy's urges spinoff (WSJ)
• Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote own brands (Reuters)
• Supply chain fears ramp up in Canada, U.S. ahead of holiday shopping season (Globe and Mail)