Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Whose fault is obesity? Primarily the food industry's (Washington Post)
• Erewhon, the cult favourite luxury grocer to the stars, gets a digital makeover (Fast Company)
• Local malls, stuck in 'death spiral', plunge in value (WSJ)
• Metro workers vow to stay 'off the job' as long as it takes as strike enters 3rd day (CBC)
• Amazon mastered the internet. Grocery stores are another story (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Rocks and bugs: A week of recalls for Trader Joe's (WSJ)
• Birkenstock owner plans September IPO at $8 billion value (Bloomberg)
• TikTok pivots towards shoppable content (The Atlantic)
• Fast fashion aims to mend its image with repairs (WSJ)
• Avion rewards program expands to customers that don't bank with RBC (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How Brands Grow & Playing to Win (Medium)
• Shein and Temu ramp up war for U.S. shoppers (WSJ)
• The rise and fall of Bud Light (The Atlantic)
• The perils of highly processed food (The New Yorker)
• A multi-lens approach to finding growth in consumer brands (McKinsey)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Metro grocery stores in the GTA close as workers go on strike (Globe and Mail)
• Shein is trying to take on Amazon. Some say it should clean up its own act instead (CBC)
• Inside Walmart's warehouse of the future (WSJ)
• Influencers built up this wellness startup - until they started getting sick (Bloomberg)
• That cool, new bookstore? It's a Barnes & Noble (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Maximum Canada is happening (Noahpinion)
• In defense of middle management (McKinsey)
• Shopify goes all in on artificial intelligence as it launches new tools for users, automates workforce (Globe and Mail)
• New Zealand's fruit-rich ice cream gets a sugary American makeover (NYT)
• From the archives (2020): Why Sarah Davis is the president Loblaw needs now (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Unilever says inflation has peaked as sales growth accelerates (FT)
• A soap maker cracks the code for 'made in America' (WSJ)
• Shoppers sound off on retailers' anti-theft tactics (CBC)
• It's so hot, they're growing mangoes in Italy (WSJ)
• Loblaw tops analysts estimates as rising grocery prices still outpace inflation (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• A decade ago, Jeff Bezos bought a newspaper. Now, he's paying attention to it again (NYT)
• For a more equitable world, should we give up cheap bananas (Globe and Mail)
• 'Skimpflation': How supermarkets reduce the quality of what you buy (The Guardian)
• Why Walmart is trouncing Amazon in the grocery wars (The Economist)
• From pasta to bread, Canada aims to put protein from pulses in everyday foods (Globe and Mail)