Stephan's Monday Picks

• Food influencers are eating old school critics for lunch (Globe and Mail)
• Putting olive oil in a squeeze bottle earned this company a cult following (Bloomberg)
• Uber's next act: Taking on Amazon (FT)
• First came the $100 wide-leg jean. Then the $700 shopping spree (Bloomberg)
• Couche-Tard's Alain Bouchard: "Pathological entrepreneur" swooping on 7-Eleven (FT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Nearly 1 in 10 people in B.C. are non-permanent residents (Globe and Mail)
• Taking on food emissions at their origin and consumption (NYT)
• Some 7-Eleven owners in Japan welcome foreign bid (Reuters)
• Couche-Tard's 'Cowboy Canadian' eyes his 7-Eleven prize, but the stakes are high (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2013): Canadian population passes 35 million (CBC)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Restaurant portions are about to get smaller. Are Americans ready? (NYT)
• Shein faces Italian antitrust scrutiny over environmental claims (WSJ)
• One bright spot amid the industry's gloom: Natural wine (NYT)
• How Hello Kitty took over the world (WSJ)
• Statistics Canada says the population grew 0.6% in the second quarter to 41,288,599 (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Norway's high-stakes gamble on sustainable salmon farming (Globe and Mail)
• How food critic Keith Lee reviews restaurants (NYT)
• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you (Washington Post)
• The magic behind Shein's rise comes under threat: duty-free shipping (WSJ)
• China to investigate U.S. retailer, sending message over Xinjiang (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Overcoming the integrative strategy challenge (Medium)
• Ontario grocery store operators raise concerns about requirement to take back empty alcohol containers (Globe and Mail)
• Shaking the wild banana (NYT)
• Australia supermarkets sued over fake discount claims (BBC)
• Tesco's Aldi price-matched items are not like-for-like, report says (The Guardian)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why 'chaos wheat' is the future of bread (Washington Post)
• To sell their merger, two supermarkets try to redefine the 'grocery store' (Bloomberg)
• The hidden environmental cost of food (NYT)
• Target names PepsiCo's Jim Lee as finance chief (WSJ)
• These seven food entrepreneurs are changing eco-conscious diners (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Maveron's investment in Rebelstork (Medium)
• Amazon's new 'Shark Tank'-style show gives winners top billing in its store (WSJ)
• The French parfumer behind the internet's favourite fragrance (The New Yorker)
• Dollar stores expand aggressively even as sales shrink (WSJ)
• From the archives (2014): How a lopsided recovery fueled the dollar store wars (NYT)