Stephan's Friday picks

• DoorDash, shifting business model, will offer drivers hourly pay (NYT)
• Morrisons' boss admits supermarket chains have hiked profits on petrol (The Guardian)
• Indigo reports nearly $50-million loss as it appoints new board leadership (Globe and Mail)
• How marketing can drive resilience during uncertain times (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2012): Talk to me, one machine said to the other (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Capital allocation starts with governance - and should be led by the CEO (McKinsey)
• Canada's grocery industry doesn't give customers enough choice, Competition Bureau finds (Globe and Mail)
• Inflation slows to 3.4%, but Bank of Canada poised to raise rates again (Globe and Mail)
• Former Maple Leaf Foods CEO knew about price fixing, says Competition Bureau document (Globe and Mail)
• Weston family shifts private investing strategy after $6.9 billion Selfridges sales (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Monday's are the new office fight (WSJ)
• Larry Fink 'ashamed' to be a part of ESG debate (Axios)
• The place most affected by remote workers' moves around the country (NYT)
• FairPrice CEO on breakthrough leadership (McKinsey)
• The buffet is back, stretching dollars and slinging crab legs (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Commercial innovation strategy (Medium)
• The paradox at the grocery store (The Atlantic)
• The ugly shoes now worth billions of dollars (WSJ)
• Scammers target grocery stores with bomb threats, seeking Bitcoin and gift cards (WSJ)
• Gen Z discovers cottage cheese (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Shein tries to shed its Chinese image (WSJ)
• Ocado shares surge on Amazon takeover rumors (BBC)
• Metro grocery workers enter bargaining armed with 100% strike mandate (Globe and Mail)
• Beyond Meat wannabes are failing as hype and money fade (Bloomberg)
• F.T.C. sues Amazon for tricking its customers to sign up for Prime (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• People on drugs like Ozempic say their 'food noise' has disappeared (NYT)
• Instacart warns customers over rude behaviour (WSJ)
• How Unilever is working to understand black women's hair (NYT)
• How generative AI is already transforming marketing (Bain)
• From the archives (2016): Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Jack Ma ally Joe Tsai to take helm of Alibaba (WSJ)
• Amazon HQ2 is not matching the original hype (CNBC)
• Grupo Bimbo's Canada Bread to pay $50 million fine in bread price-fixing settlement (Globe and Mail)
• Running Amazon became a lot less fun once Jeff Bezos left (Slate)
• U.S. approves the sale of lab-grown chicken (NYT)