Stephan's Monday Picks

• Grocery stores are adapting to more male shoppers - who they treat like knuckleheads (Washington Post)
• Lidl and Aldi want to be your new supermarket (Texas Monthly)
• What it's like to be a downtown food delivery cyclist (Toronto Star)
• P&G cuts more than $100 million in 'largely ineffective' digital adds (WSJ)
• Demand for exotic Kit Kats is so high that Nestle is building a new plant (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Food tech and media landscape 2017 (Forbes)
• Save-On-Foods to carry Tesco private label products (CG)
• Amazon reports 25% sales growth (Gadfly)
• Starbucks to shutter all Teavana stores as sales disappoint (NYT)
• Is kohlrabi the next kale (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside Hampton Creek's empty boardroom (Bloomberg)
• Even Campbell Soup is taking a page from Amazon (Quartz)
• Help wanted: Amazon to host job fair for 50,000 positions amid hiring squeeze (WSJ)
• Who wants to run that mom and pop shop? Almost no one (NYT)
• Loblaw taking stock of 'very compelling threat' of Amazon: CEO (Financial Post)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Southern hospitality: Will Publix's service-first approach continue to pay off (Food Dive)
• Next leap for robots: Picking out and boxing your online order (WSJ)
• AI may soon replace even the most elite consultants (HBR)
• Cott selling traditional beverage business to Refresco for $1.25 billion (CG)
• Blue Apron shakes up executives less than a month after IPO (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Albertsons CEO on his life, work, stores, and Amazon (Idaho Statesman)
• A needless distraction for Walmart (Gadfly)
• Your brands best strategy (HBR)
• Tesco to extend same-day home delivery across the UK (The Guardian)
• Vegan ice cream enters a golden age (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Want to see the future of U.S. online grocery? Look to France (Kantar)
• Walmart, Amazon rivalry extends to forklifts (WSJ)
• Sephora is experimenting with a boutique concept to prepare for the upcoming retail apocalypse (Fast Company)
• Betting on things that never change (Collaborative Fund)
• What do we really want (Stanford)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Whole Foods investor cashes out after merger demands were fulfilled (NYT)
• The mad cheese scientists fighting to save the dairy industry (Bloomberg)
• Sears to sell Kenmore appliances on Amazon, shares jump (Globe and Mail)
• French's deal sets up epic mustard battle (Bloomberg)
• Why the grim reaper of retail hasn't come to claim Best Buy (Los Angeles Times)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• P&G chief executive wrestles with changing an 'insular' culture (FT)
• Why Alexa is a big deal (Medium)
• The man who got Americans to eat trash fish is now a billionaire (Bloomberg)
• Blue Apron under investigation after disastrous IPO (Food Dive)
• Woolworth's announces its stores will ban single-use plastic bags within 12 months (Sydney Morning Herald)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon moves into the meal-kit business (The Guardian)
• Big Food's next big problem: Supermarket brands (WSJ)
• McCormick buys Reckitt Benckiser's food unit for $4.2 billion (Bloomberg)
• Why Nelson Peltz wants P&G to see him as a 'constructivist' (NYT)
• The trouble with CMOs (HBR)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Trian launches proxy fight against Procter & Gamble (WSJ)
• Hampton Creek's entire board leaves except for CEO (Bloomberg)
• When should we eat (538)
• Unilever vies with Hormel Foods to buy Reckitt food unit (Reuters)
• Why retailers are going all in on subscription services (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Brittain Ladd: A beautiful way to save Woolworth's (LinkedIn)
• Why you should look to China for the future of retail (WSJ)
• What happens when Walmart leaves (The Guardian)
• The future of ice cream looks a lot like Halo Top (CNBC)
• One third of France's private label products are of French origin (ESM)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Visa takes war on cash to restaurants (WSJ)
• Fast retailing must pick up the pace (Gadfly)
• Trader Joe's is rationing its cauliflower rice due to high demand (Food & Wine)
• How to set more realistic growth targets (HBR)
• Target's back-to-basics approach works, for now (Gadfly)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart will punish its suppliers for delivering early (Bloomberg)
• Neighbourhood supermarkets chase the 'slow dollar' (WSJ)
• A baker's crusade: Rescuing the famed French boulangerie (NYT)
• Jean Coutu expects drug makers to resolve price spat with Quebec (Globe and Mail)
• Albertsons stalls renewed IPO plans after Amazon's deal with Whole Foods (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Is the famous 'paradox of choice' a myth (PBS)
• The cost of dead inventory (Business of Fashion)
• Eddie Lampert says might consider deal with Sears Canada (Reuters)
• Gastrophysics explains how potato chips can taste even better (CBC)
• Couche-Tard buying U.S. convenience store Holiday: deal includes over 500 locations (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• E-commerce as a jobs engine? One economist's unorthodox view (NYT)
• Kraft's unsavory option (Bloomberg)
• Five questions brands need to answer to be customer-first in the digital age (McKinsey)
• 7-Eleven will sell Soylent, Silicon Valley's ultimate food convenience (Quartz)
• How to make the most of Amazon's prime day (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

•  The next battle in antitrust will be about whether one company knows everything about you (HBR)
• Tren Griffin: A dozen things I've learned from Jim Sinegal (25iq)
• Amazon Prime is on pace to become more popular than cable TV (Recode)
• A strategist's guide to the digital grocery (S&B)
• Albertsons among six firms that vied for Whole Foods (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• America's most venerable brands are struggling (WSJ)
• The international effort to fix Bangladesh's deadly factories has a basic math problem (Quartz)
• Amazon is now developing its own wine (Recode)
• Kroger sues Lidl just two weeks after it lands in the U.S. (Business Insider)
• Fear not pasta lovers: Your meal is safe from wheat's surge (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why the robot takeover of the economy is proceeding slowly (Bloomberg)
• A treehouse grows in Dallas (The Robin Report)
• Sainsbury should leave Nisa on the shelf (Gadfly)
• What's driving consumer desire for plant-based foods (Food Dive)
• Ocado's rose-tinted glasses (Gadfly)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• 3D printers start to build the factories of the future (The Economist)
• How Americans order their steak (538)
• Walmart upgrades to Angus beef (Bloomberg)
• Change management in merger integration (Bain)
• How Nike is using digital channels to drive sales (Digiday)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• To develop a winning strategy, know who you are fighting (McKinsey)
• Craft beer: How big beverage fell in love with small batch brews (Fortune)
• Before they hit the road, driverless vehicles will take over warehouses (MIT Technology Review)
• Target rejiggers brands to lure shoppers (WSJ)
• Probiotics with your pizza (WSJ)

Best of Pax Westona: June 2017

• A street fight among grocers to deliver your milk, eggs, bananas (NYT)
• The shelf life of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey (Texas Monthly)
• The grocery store of the future is mobile, self-driving, and run by AI (Fast Company)
• Shipping giants are looking to self-piloting boats to shift cargo (MIT Technology Review)
• Getting ready to battle grocery's hard discounters (Bain)
• Digital insurgents, emerging models, and the disruption of CPG and retail (BCG)
• Surge pricing comes to the supermarket (The Guardian)
• The struggle to replace Target (Globe and Mail)
• Carrefour faces crossroads as new CEO faces same old problems (FT)
• Yoplait learns to manufacture authenticity to go with its yogurt (NYT)