Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside the colorful, cultish world of Nerds gummy clusters (NYT)
• Amazon reportedly sets out ultra-low pricing plans for Temu rival store (Globe and Mail)
• Is the Kindle Colorsoft too late? Amazon reveals what took so long to catch up (Wired)
• Big Food is learning to love weight-loss drugs (WSJ)
• Woolworths cuts expectations for Australian food earnings (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• A 'high touch' warehouse for exacting brands (NYT)
• Police investigate 'large-scale' butter stores from Guelph (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart, LCBO are the latest retailers to embrace plastic bags. Environmentalists are concerned (CBC)
• Scammers steal $390,000 of British cheese (NYT)
• Food banks in Newfoundland are so desperate, they're even cutting back on instant coffee (CBC)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Home Depot's 12-foot skeletons spawned an industry of giant Halloween decor (Bloomberg)
• Albertsons taps Donald as sole chairman, Galbato to step down (WSJ)
• How Starbucks became a sugary teen emporium (Bloomberg)
• Gen AI in corporate functions: Looking beyond efficiency gains (McKinsey)
• At Boeing and Starbucks, different problems but similar CEO messages (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• America's newest hit candy is gummy, crunchy, and printing money (WSJ)
• Mr. Bezos went to Washington. But he never arrived (NYT)
• 'Back to Starbucks' could have a retro feel - and valuation (WSJ)
• Efforts to add Maple Leaf Foods to bread-price fixing class action denied (Globe and Mail)
• Coffee price war burns Keurig and Starbucks (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Keurig Dr. Pepper to buy energy-drink maker Ghost for over $1 billion (WSJ)
• Canada tightens immigration after years of expansion (NYT)
• Walmart to offer prescription delivery, challenging Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Kroger and Walmart deny 'surge pricing' after adopting digital price tags (NYT)
• From the archives (2018): Keurig to acquire Dr. Pepper Snapple for $19 billion in largest soft-drink deal ever (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Coke, Twinkles, Skittles, and ... whole-grain bread? (The Atlantic)
• Costco has a magazine and it's thriving (NYT)
• How Spindrift broke through the cluttered seltzer space (Bloomberg)
• The quest to save the 'king' of Japanese rice from rising temperatures (NYT)
• Closed for business? Confusion reigns: Canada needs credible immigration anchors (Scotiabank)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Is there still any pop left in California's fight against soda (Politico)
• Nestle says slowdown in rising food costs isn't soothing pinched shoppers (WSJ)
• At the grocery store, blinded by the light of the 'health halo' (NYT)
• The weird history of the barcode (BBC)
• Bed Bath & Beyond stores to return in $25 million partnership with Kirkland's (WSJ)