Best of Pax Westona: January 2017

• ·         How the barcode changed retailing and manufacturing (BBC)
• ·         Stefano Pessina, Walgreens Boots Alliance, on dealmaking (Financial Times)
• ·         How products dwindle out of favor (Wall Street Journal)
• ·         The dark (and often dubious) art of forecasting food trends (New York Times)
• ·         The case against overly perky salespeople (Bloomberg)
• ·         How to be an effective early-stage employee. Hint: Be helpful (Medium)
• ·         Inside Sears’ death spiral (Business Insider)
• ·         Nestle looks for ways to boost stale growth as consumers snub unhealthy food (The Economist)
• ·         Canadian scientists are trying to make your tomatoes tasty again (The Globe and Mail)
• ·         How to stop short-term thinking at America’s companies (The Atlantic)