Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Mall owners say retailers are still opening stores in spite of recession fears (CNBC)
• Dynamic price competition: Theory and evidence from the airline industry (Yale)
• Canada needs a national agriculture technology innovation strategy (CSPC)
• Lollipops hustle on Amazon costs family candy business millions (Bloomberg)
• Just Eat Takeaway writes down value of Grubhub by €3B (FT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• We are all behavioural, more or less: A taxonomy of consumer decision making (The Review of Economic Studies)
• Amazon launches same-day delivery from some brick-and-mortar retail brands (CNBC)
• Are Canada's big grocers profiting off inflation? It's complicated (Financial Post)
• PepsiCo takes $550 million stake in energy drink maker Celsius (CNBC)
• From pizza to dip, chips, and popcorn, pickle is summer's big flavour (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Race in the workplace: The frontline experience (McKinsey)
• Indigo ain't ya mama's bookstore anymore (Financial Post)
• Snack, deodorant makers target cost-conscious customers with new brands and sizes (WSJ)
• It's time to put actual veggies back into veggie burgers (Eater)
• From the archives (2014): Could Target have prevented its security breach (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The popular chicken sandwich gets a redo at Panera Bread, Popeyes (WSJ)
• P&G just wants you to use your dishwasher (Bloomberg)
• Falling food prices ease upward pressure on inflation (WSJ)
• Customer segmentation needs a behaviourally-informed upgrade (Behavioral Scientist)
• Dollar store dinners and vats of shampoo help families cope with inflation (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Tim Hortons proposes free coffee and doughnuts as settlement for privacy class action lawsuits (Globe and Mail)
• Trader Joe's workers at a Massachusetts store form a union, a milestone in the chain (NYT)
• Instacart aims to go public before year's end, defying a frozen IPO market (WSJ)
• As inventory piles up, liquidation warehouses are busy (NYT)
• Sprite goes green by ditching its green bottle (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The delusion of single point accountability (Medium)
• The future of food (NYT)
• The Great Attrition in frontline retail - and what retailers can do about it (McKinsey)
• Lactose tolerance is an evolutionary puzzle (The Atlantic)
• Inside Amazon's plan to 'neutralize' powerful unions by hiring ex-inmates and 'vulnerable students' (Recode)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Cheaper beer, cigarettes gain favour as inflation pinches shoppers (WSJ)
• How bacon and Costco fish shape America's view of inflation (NYT)
• Suburbanites fight over new dinner services in Mercedes vans (WSJ)
• As inflation soars, European consumer goods M&A slows (Reuters)
• From the archives (1994): Wal-mart entering Canada (NYT)