Stephan's Friday Picks

• Yes, Walmart store managers really can make $500,000 a year (Bloomberg)
• Orange juice crisis prompts search for alternate fruits (Bloomberg)
• The restaurant world still has a child care problem (Eater)
• The king crab kings (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2021): Pellet ice is the good ice (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Store brands are filling up more of your shopping cart (WSJ)
• Reimagining the apparel value change amid volatility (McKinsey)
• Hold the French Fries! Paris Olympics chart a new gastronomic course (NYT)
• Points influencers are everywhere. Some deals are too good to be true (Washington Post)
• Food delivery apps rack up $20 billion in losses in fierce battle for diners (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Doug Ford's change to booze sales could cost far more than $225 million (CBC)
• The loneliness of the American worker (WSJ)
• Stanley Goldstein, who helped make CVS a pharmacy giant, dies at 89 (NYT)
• Shein promised to have a big U.S. IPO. Its China roots got in the way (WSJ)
• New York's biggest produce market is at a breaking point (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Surfaces concave and convex (Medium)
• Buying groceries at Shoppers Drug Mart? You'll pay a buck more for those chickpeas (Globe and Mail)
• Why a shabby luxury brand is hard to fix (WSJ)
• Why does a simple summer dress cost so much now (The Cut)
• Lululemon restructures product and brand teams (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread files for Chapter 11 (NYT)
• Why banning tweens from buying anti-aging creams won't stop the Sephora kids (CBC)
• Loblaw and Empire being investigated by Competition Bureau for anti-competitive practices (Globe and Mail)
• Is this the end of Instagram cookware (NYT)
• Ontario to pay $225-million to Beer Store to speed up corner-store beer purchases (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Menu for one: GenAI lets restaurants get personal (BCG)
• Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul (CNBC)
• Best Caisse scenario (Globe and Mail)
• London Drugs employee data leaked on dark web after cybersecurity breach (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2011): The dollar store economy (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Suncor moves on gas station plans, deciding which to renovate and which to sell (Globe and Mail)
• 'Bromakase' is the new steakhouse (NYT)
• Quebecor says Loblaw deal with telecoms is anti-competitive (CBC)
• Can beef be 'low carbon'? The USDA thinks so (Undark)
• Amazon is reviving its logistics expansion and reshaping its U.S. distribution (WSJ)