Best of Pax Westona: April 2017

• ·         Boston Dynamics has been using its robotic ‘dog’ to deliver packages in Boston (Recode)
• ·         Walmart’s plan to trick people into saving money (The Atlantic)
• ·         A rare venture capitalist – female and retail-focused (New York Times)
• ·         Amex, challenged by Chase, is losing the snob war (New York Times)
• ·         How Dollarama became the retail king of knockoffs (Macleans)
• ·         How Amazon Go ‘probably’ makes ‘just walk out’ groceries a reality (Ars Technica)
• ·         How Trader Joe’s wine became cheaper than bottled water (Thrillist)
• ·         Strategic choices need to be made simultaneously, not sequentially (Harvard Business Review)
• ·         Amazon wants Cheerios, Oreos, and other brands to bypass Walmart (Bloomberg)
• ·         Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that are terrifying America’s biggest brand (Recode)