Best of Pax Westona: October 2018

• What can save the struggling Marks & Spencer (NYT)
• Self checkout is terrible: Why Walmart, Target, and others still do it (Vox)
• To see where retail stores are heading, look to China (BCG)
• Target's answer to discounters is even cheaper store brand (WSJ)
• Sears, the original everything store, files for bankruptcy (NYT)
• Food companies seek to boot their dated brands (Bloomberg)
• Inside the $2.6B subscription wars (Fast Company)
• Amazon's quest to win in India (Bloomberg)
• Haste makes waste (The Collaborative Fund)
• How one man built The Sharper Image into the world's wackiest gadget store (The Hustle)