Stephan's Friday Picks

• A new Coca-Cola flavour at the end of the world (The Atlantic)
• Amazon aggregator Thrasio engages restructuring advisors (WSJ)
• Morrisons CEO David Potts to step down as ex-Carrefour France boss takes over (The Guardian)
• Lululemon and Peloton end their feud (WSJ)
• From the archives (2012): Carrefour rethinks its 'bigger is better' strategy (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Building food and agriculture businesses for the future (McKinsey)
• The hottest American restaurants in Paris (of all places) (WSJ)
• Walmart's head of fashion Denise Icandela talks about changing discounter's staid image in fashion (AP)
• This could be the holy grail to replace pam oil (BBC)
• Starbucks CEO seeks to improve service - for baristas (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The state of grocery in North America (McKinsey)
• Lululemon's secret power - even moms can't make it uncool (WSJ)
• Many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco (Washington Post)
• Instacart IPO is latest stop of Fidji Simo's Silicon Valley ascent (FT)
• Rite Aid plans to shut down hundreds of stores in bankruptcy (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Measuring, managing, and mattering (Medium)
• What Big Tech knows about your body (The Atlantic)
• Can private equity be .... nice (Slate)
• Amazon's new challenge: Bargain retailers that are playing a new game (WSJ)
• Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Airlines are just banks now (The Atlantic)
• If you don't like inflation, you'll hate deflation (CBC)
• The microwave makes no sense (The Atlantic)
• Peek inside America's largest private company (Bloomberg)
• Let's clean up the Kleenex grocery myths (Financial Post)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• How TikTok is reshaping the American cookbook (NYT)
• Hard-core sleepers are obsessing over their sleep stats (WSJ)
• Amazon unveils a 'smarter' Alexa. Its AI has a lot of work to do (Washington Post)
• Why your Starbucks wait is so long (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2019): Data science and the art of persuasion (HBR)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why the Twinkie is now worth billions (WSJ)
• Insiders reveal major problems at lab-grown-meat startup Upside Foods (Wired)
• Instacart IPO is an expensive lesson for venture firms (WSJ)
• The long, slow return to normal of food inflation in Canada (Globe and Mail)
• Publix, Florida's favourite grocery store, explained (Vox)