Stephan's Friday Picks

• Wellness is dead. Long live the martini (Grub Street)
• Sweet and squishy as ever, the gummy universe keeps expanding (NYT)
• America may have eaten its fill of chicken wings (Bloomberg)
• The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap (The Hustle)
• From the archives (2012): Richard Baker: A balancing act in choppy retail waters (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A generational portrait of Canada's aging population (Statistics Canada)
• Candlesticks make a resurgence (NYT)
• The next frontier in consumer goods: Digitally enabled innovation (McKinsey)
• Giant Tiger partners with Instacart (Newsire)
• JCPenney owners offer to buy archrival Kohl's for $8.6B (New York Post)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How inflation is impacting U.S. discretionary spending (First Insight)
• The correlation between dollar stores and food deserts (Eater)
• The Amazonification of the American workforce (Vox)
• The convenient truth of rotisserie chicken (Taste)
• Canadians are sitting on record amounts of cash - but nobody is sure what to do with the money (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• State of Grocery Europe 2022 (McKinsey)
• How a Dollar General employee went viral on TikTok (NYT)
• Roger Martin: The purpose of corporate purpose (Medium)
• How Reebok lost its number 1 spot (Retail Dive)
• Competition between Shopify and Amazon heats up as one company plans billion-dollar acquisition and other announces new strategy (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• What you don't know about Amazon (NYT)
• How bricks might save clicks (WSJ)
• The world's food system is too dependent on wheat (Bloomberg)
• Four hidden reasons food prices are crazy right now (Washington Post)
• Metro says food basket inflation hits 5%, warns of more price pain to come (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How America's farmers got cut out of the supply chain (NYT)
• Grubhub owner Just Eat considers sale after orders fall (WSJ)
• Nestle starts year with strongest price increase in decade (Bloomberg)
• Inflation rate shatters expectations, hits 31-year high (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives: Joe Beef and the excesses of restaurant culture (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Shopify restructuring boosts Lutke's power rather than curtailing it (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart heirs launching their own Woodstock with an art and music festival (WSJ)
• The rising risk of a global food crisis (McKinsey)
• Why prepared rotisserie chickens are cheaper than ones you cook yourself (CBC)
• FDA investigating reports of illness from Lucky Charms (NYT)