Stephan's Friday Picks

• How the sausage is made (Grub Street)
• Alimentation Couche-Tard CEO Brian Hannasch to retire in September (Globe and Mail)
• The AI boom has an unlikely early winner: wonky consultants (NYT) 
• McDonald's says no thanks to plant-based burgers (Quartz)
• Meet Brian Hannasch, the American in charge of a beloved Quebec brand (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• LVMH's Bernard Arnault emerges as personal stakeholder in Richemont (FT)
• DoorDash held talks with UKs Deliveroo on takeover (Reuters)
• Ottawa ends decades-long ban on Newfoundland's Northern cod fishing (Globe and Mail)
• Shopify beefs up AI offerings with new products meant to boost merchants' sales (Globe and Mail)
• Why your Starbucks Frappuccino is now half price (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Getir set for breakup and Mubadala cash injection (FT)
• Canada's boss economy: What explains the boom in management jobs (Globe and Mail)
• Go woke, go broke? Not a chance, say Ben and Jerry (WSJ)
• BoC's Macklem says Canadian economy appears to be on track for soft landing (Globe and Mail)
• Every year, StatsCan tweaks how it calculates inflation. Here's what you need to know about this year's changes (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How management can most effectively use boards (Medium)
• How pets became big business (NYT)
• The crazy economics of the world's most coveted handbag (WSJ)
• What it takes to rewire a CPG company to outcompete in digital and AI (McKinsey)
• Amazon mulls monthly fee as part of revamp of unprofitable Alexa service to include generative AI (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (NPR)
• Target tests an AI tool to help its works aid shoppers (NYT)
• Americans have lost the plot on cooking oil (The Atlantic)
• How to avoid scams and shoddy wares on Amazon (Wired)
• How PBMs are driving up prescription drug costs (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sobeys slowing e-commerce expansion in bid to improve profitability (Globe and Mail)
• The self-checkout revolution (WSJ)
• Boston Pizza scales down in bid to serve underserved markets (Globe and Mail)
• How retail media can top the CMO agenda (BCG)
• From the archives (2018): The Ocado Way: The British future of grocery e-commerce is coming to Canada (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Rescuing the decade: A dual agenda for the consumer goods industry (McKinsey)
• Ottawa set to stop open-net salmon farms in B.C., giving the industry 5 years to transition (Globe and Mail)
• McDonald's ends AI drive-thru trial as fast-food industry tests automation (The Guardian)
• Oxtail is gaining fans. Not everyone is happy about that (NYT)
• Revolutionizing procurement: Leveraging data and AI for strategic advantage (McKinsey)