Best of Pax Westona: August 2017

• Why the hatchet men of 3G spent $10 million on a better Oscar Mayer Weiner (Bloomberg)
• Supermarkets face a growing problem: Too much space (WSJ)
• Management is much more than a science (HBR)
• Head of America's largest grocer talks Amazon and ugly tomatoes (WSJ)
• End of the checkout line: The looming crisis for American cashiers (The Guardian)
• The incredible shrinking Sears (NYT)
• What brands are actually behind Trader Joe's snacks (Eater)
• At Walmart Academy, training better managers, but with a better future? (NYT)
• Inside the secret world of global food spies (Bloomberg)
• Amazon's new robo-picker champion is proudly inhuman (MIT Technology Review)