Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why are department stores so scared of Halloween (Business of Fashion)
• Improv-da: How Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater (The Baffler)
• Frozen food comes in from the cold (Bloomberg)
• Grocers feel chill from millennials (WSJ)
• Whole Foods eyes millennials with meal delivery test (Fortune)
• U.S. retailers should pay attention to Lidl and Aldi's big problems in Ireland (Forbes)
• New technique may prevent the gruesome death of billions of male chicks (WaPo)