Best of Pax Westona: January 2019

• McDonald's bets on breakfast - again (WSJ)
• Protein mania: the rich world's new diet obsession (The Guardian)
• The vegetarians at the gate (Bloomberg)
• 'Fast action' in fast food (McKinsey)
• The marijuana billionaire who doesn't smoke weed (Fortune)
• Amazon, to win in booming rural India, reinvents itself (WSJ)
• Retailers: Stop treating salespeople as expendable (HBR)
• Bread makes a comeback (The New Yorker)
• The great American chile highway (Eater)
• Inside Chipotle's plan to make you love it again (Time)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tesco review and cost-cutting to hit 9,000 workers (Bloomberg)
• The emerging art of ecosystem management (BCG)
• DTC marketing is disruptive and popular, but it isn't easy (WSJ)
• Walgreens and CVS test teeth straightening, cleanings in some stores (CNBC)
• FedEx next-day delivery now available for midnight orders (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Walgreens tests new smart coolers (The Atlantic)
• Are 'healthy snacks' actually good for you (Vox)
• The secret life of Amazon's Vine reviewers (NYT)
• New jobs for robots: Taking stock for retailers (WSJ)
• Ocado's secret talks with M&S could spell the end for Waitrose tie-up (The Guardian)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Inside Chipotle's plan to make you love it again (Time)
• In 2019, hot DTC brands face pressures to prove profitability (Digiday)
• These chickens lay designer eggs for Big Pharma (Wired)
• We'll always eat meat. But more of it will be 'meat' (Bloomberg)
• Pricing needs to reflect who people want to be, not just what they want (HBR)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• A billionaire starts a retail management school at McGill (Bloomberg)
• Brands invent new lines for only Amazon to sell (WSJ)
• What's healthy at the grocery store (NPR)
• Where Amazon returns go to be resold by hustlers (The Atlantic)
• Thousands of Tesco jobs at risk as bosses look to axe fresh food counters (The Guardian)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Lessons from the front line of corporate nudging (McKinsey)
• The world's biggest brands want you to refill your orange juice and deodorant (WSJ)
• The great American chile highway (Eater)
• Google's bid to battle Amazon suffers blow as Walmart withdraws (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2016): China's gold rush in the hills of Appalachia (Foreign Policy)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Mars Inc. CEO Grant Reid is thinking a hundred years ahead (Bloomberg)
• The Prime challenges for Amazon's new delivery robot (Wired)
• Another meal company folds its apron (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons parent shakes up executive ranks amid solid results (Financial Post)
• The retail industry is trying to understand tech (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• New Food Guide unveiled without food groups or recommended servings (CBC)
• JC Penney struggles to avoid the same fate as Sears (WSJ)
• What can U.S. retailers learn from China (Grocery Dive)
• Just Eat chief executive makes surprise exit (The Guardian)
• Boosting mall revenue from advanced analytics (McKinsey)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Instacart adds luxury grocer Pusateri's to its roster (Financial Post)
• These Instacart workers want you to leave them a 22 cent tip (Bloomberg)
• Bread makes a comeback (The New Yorker)
• What it's like to be allergic to corn (The Atlantic)
• Amazon knows what you buy, and it's building a big ad business from it (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Retailers: Stop treating salespeople as expendable (HBR)
• Amazon ruined online shopping (The Atlantic)
• Oreo competitor makes federal case out of 'cutthroat' cookie rivalry (WSJ)
• Forerunner Ventures founder's Kirsten Green career advice (Fast Company)
• How much alcohol do Americans drink (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How a radical idea turned Loblaws into a supermarket empire (TVO)
• Amazon rewrites book industry by marching into publishing (WSJ)
• The marijuana billionaire who doesn't smoke weed (Fortune)
• Inside the $3 billion race to kill plastic (Fast Company)
• From the archives (2012): How Dollarama turns pocket change into billions (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The real cost of cheap groceries (Fortune)
• Colgate Total toothpaste to relaunch without controversial chemical (Bloomberg)
• Walmart could leave CVS Caremark pharmacy networks amid dispute (WSJ)
• The Alibaba effect (Nikkei Asian Review)
• Sears won't close yet as its chariman, Edward Lampert, fends off creditors (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Walgreens tests digital cooler doors with cameras to target you with ads (WSJ)
• Robotic milkers and an automated greenhouse: Inside a high-tech small farm (NYT)
• America's biggest grocery chain says customers are wary about future (Bloomberg)
• Coffee price slump leaves farmers making less than a cent a cup (Reuters)
• Giant Food stores will place robotic assistants at 172 locations (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Meet the new payment champions, same as the old ones (WSJ)
• Big Pharma faces the curse of the billion dollar blockbuster (Bloomberg)
• Three questions with Target's new President of Food & Beverage (Target)
• Unilever's new weapon in the ice cream wars is a swole treat (Bloomberg)
• Succeeding in the US retail industry in an era of unprecedented disruption (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Bad news for avocado growers = good news for millennials? (WSJ)
• Research details how junk food companies influence China's nutrition policy (NYT)
• Aimia shareholders approve sale of Aeroplan to Air Canada (Financial Post)
• Big Dairy is about to flood America's school lunches with milk (Bloomberg)
• Lululemon's next target is mindfulness for men (Quartz)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sears to stay open another week; auction set for Monday (NYT)
• The Impossible Burger 2.0 is a plant-based beef replacement that's meatier than ever (Popular Science)
• 'Fast action' in fast food (McKinsey)
• Walmart will offer autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona (Engadget)
• From the archives (2012): Why 'good jobs' are good for retailers (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon: Best of frenemies (WSJ)
• How retail changes when algorithms curate everything we buy (HBR)
• How to make a millennial feel cozy with just one beverage (NYT)
• CES 2019's kitchen of the future is kind of a nightmare (Eater)
• Microsoft and Kroger want to show you Minority Report style ads (Fast Company)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Internet beef is taking advantage of not-so-hot supermarket meat (Bloomberg)
• GM, Door Dash to test autonomous vehicle deliveries (WSJ)
• Stitch Fix's success is underappreciated (Bloomberg)
• The five trademarks of agile organizations (McKinsey)
• As big retailers seek to cut their tax bills, towns bear the brunt (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The vegetarians at the gate (Bloomberg)
• Put down that spoon - this soup is for drinking (WSJ)
• JD.com to shelve European expansion (Retail Detail)
• Activist investor seeks changes at Dollar Tree (WSJ)
• Starboard's Letter to Dollar Tree (Starboard Value)
• What Singles Day can tell us about how retail is changing in China (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Nestle plans vegan push with no-meat burger, purple walnut milk (Bloomberg)
• Amazon, to win in booming rural India, reinvents itself (WSJ)
• Protein mania: the rich world's new diet obsession (The Guardian)
• Hudson's Bay chairman buys stake held by Ontario pension fund (WSJ)
• Aphria's dealmaker: How a self-described outsider found himself in the hot seat (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How skin-care companies are tackling issues faced by women of colour (NYT)
• Retailers' gift-return problem has a high-tech solution (Bloomberg)
• Rewards credit cards gained a fanatic following - now banks are pulling back (WSJ)
• Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years I'm done (Washington Post)
• From the archives (2015): Ahold and Delhaize Group enter preliminary talks on a merger (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Has AI taken over retail (Wired)
• Amazon plans to add Whole Foods stores (WSJ)
• Millennials don't want to smell like celebs anymore (Bloomberg)
• Cleaning up beauty (L2)
• World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (The Guardian)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What is the board's role in setting strategy (HBR)
• McDonald's bets on breakfast - again (WSJ)
• Impossible Foods to go head-to-head with Beyond Meat (Quartz)
• Behind La Croix's sparkle (L2)
• Plastic is Big Food's next headache (WSJ)