Stephan's Monday Picks

• The year ahead 2017: Retail (Bloomberg) 
• This is why you shouldn't believe that exciting new medical story (Vox)
• Push my buttons: Experiments in automated consumption (Economist)
• The many challenges of CPG and retail startups (Collaborative Fund)
• To Amazon and Wal-Mart, big data and small data are one and the same (Forbes)
• The weird economics of Ikea (fivethirtyeight)
• Watch out Wal-Mart. Amazon is coming after the grocery business (Bloomberg)