Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How I do strategy - Part Two (Medium)
• Can AriZona's 99-cent iced tea survive Trump's tariffs (NYT)
• Inside Target, frustrated employees and search for new CEO (WSJ)
• First Nations groups raise questions about lack of consultation before sale of 1670 Hudson's Bay Company charter (Globe and Mail)
• Landlords say Ruby Liu's plan to take over 25 Hudson's Bay properties defies 'commercial sense' (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Oreos combined with Reeses? Inside the Manhattan Project of snacks (WSJ)
• Bicks pickles no longer stocked at some Canadian retailers (CBC)
• What lobsters and chicken says about Europe's trade logic (NYT)
• What's more American than the McLobster (WSJ)
• Pick your own is the future, says sunflower farmer (BBC)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Aldi's passionate, cultlike following fuels its rapid expansion plan (NYT)
• Shopify again becomes Canada's most valuable company after big second quarter (Globe and Mail)
• Canadian Tire sales grow in second quarter, profit down (Globe and Mail)
• McDonald's sales return to growth, pushed by promotions (NYT)
• From the archives (2009): Aldi looks to the U.S. for growth (WSJ)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A punchy $50 billion sales goal gets J. Martins mulling over M&A (Bloomberg)
• The quest to build a perfect protein bar (The New Yorker)
• Ikea kitchens coming to Best Buy as chains aim to revive sales (Bloomberg)
• Greg Ramier to replace retiring Pet Valu CEO Richard Malsbarger (Globe and Mail)
• End of de minimis alarms e-commerce sellers, consumers (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Once a retail empire, Carrefour struggles to win back investors (Bloomberg)
• The new 'perfect combination': The Reese's Oreo cup? The Oreo Reese's cookie (WSJ)
  
• Target executive says stores in-stock levels are improving (Bloomberg)
• Why the Mediterranean diet is so good for you (Washington Post)
• Haribo only makes gummies. Why this single-product strategy works (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: How I do strategy (Medium)
• Feeding the Maine lobster roll boom (NYT)
• Dubai chocolate is raising pistachio prices and farmer profits (Bloomberg)
• What's ahead for food (WSJ)
• Weston family to avoid auction in bid for Hudson's Bay charter (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Ralph Lauren's vintage man of mystery (NYT)
• Weston family to buy the Hudson's Bay charter to donate to museum in $12.5 million deal (Globe and Mail)
• Starbucks abandons mobile order, pickup-only stores (WSJ)
• When NASA got caught up in the cola wars (NYT)
• From the archive (2017): This secretive billionaire makes the cheese for Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's (Forbes)