Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Startups make it easier to get ADHD drugs (WSJ)
• The flip side of large M&A deals (McKinsey)
• What the research says about intermittent fasting and weight loss (Globe and Mail)
• Carl Icahn targets Kroger over pork, CEO pay (WSJ)
• The secret to keeping ice cream creamy (not crunchy) might be plant-based nanocrystals (Ars Technica)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Exploiting analogy (Medium)
• Asda faces legal wrangle with Waitrose over Just Essentials range (The Guardian)
• Fashion retailers race to become ad giants (BoF)
• Canada's grocers remove Russian products from shelves (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart stops selling cigarettes in some stores (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Six strategic priorities for modern merchant leaders (McKinsey)
• She was a candidate to lead Levi's. Then she started tweeting (NYT)
• How to get the most out of your couponing (CBC)
• All that's stopping a full-blown food crisis? Rice (Bloomberg)
• Chris Cocks is Hasbro's gamer in chief (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Forecasting the future of stores (McKinsey)
• Online brands try a traditional marketing strategy: physical stores (NYT)
• Instacart slashes its valuation by 40% to $24 billion (Bloomberg) 
• Rapid delivery gets some Insta-validation (WSJ)
• Shopping in the metaverse could be more fun than you think (CNet)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• The pillowy magic of milk bread (NYT)
• Amazon comes up with a big no sale in India (Bloomberg)
• How Emily Nunn turned salad into a soapbox (NYT)
• Cattle ranchers take aim at meatpackers' dominance (WSJ)
• From the archives (2019): When Jacques Pepin made all the world an omelet (Taste)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Elliott-backed group weighs increasing offer for Nielsen (WSJ)
• There's no global shopping mall (NYT)
• How leading companies use machine intelligence (McKinsey)
• After Covid-19 made Americans better tippers, inflation could change that (WSJ)
• CP Rail to restart operations after arbitration agreement (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Getir is now worth $12 billion after it raises another $768 million (Tech Crunch)
• Nielsen rejects $9 billion takeover offer from private equity consortium (WSJ)
• Toronto, the quietly booming tech town (NYT)
• Alibaba stock spikes 11% after it ups its repurchase plans (CNBC)
• What if working in your sweatpants unleashed your superpowers (WSJ)