Best of Pax Westona: February 2019

• White gold: The unstoppable rise of alternative milks (The Guardian)
• The surprising value of obvious insights (MIT SMR)
• Omnichannel grocery is open for business - and ready to grow (Bain)
• Retail is broken. Angela Ahrendts has a plan (Vogue)
• Soggy fries vs. sagging profits: Restaurants face delivery dilemma (WSJ)
• Why progressive pricing is becoming a competitive necessity (BCG)
• How US grocers are standing up to Europe's hard discounters (Bain)
• America at work: A national mosaic and roadmap for tomorrow (Walmart)
• Inside Elizabeth Holmes's chilling final days at Theranos (Vanity Fair)
• Stitch Fix's radical data-driven way to sell clothes is reinventing retail (Fast Company)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The right way to lead design thinking (HBR)
• Target is inviting other retailers to join its website (CNBC)
• Big Money joins fight against $1 trillion in wasted food (Bloomberg)
• Your avocados and olives are pricier because fat is in fashion (WSJ)
• How Tim Hortons plans to stick-handle its way into the Chinese market (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How the world got hooked on palm oil (The Guardian)
• How girl scout cookies captured the heart of America (Vox)
• In the Canadian natural foods business, experts say small is big (CBC)
• Bud's Super Bowl ad threatens to derail beer alliance (WSJ)
• Amazon appoints former Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi to board (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Meat is a big climate issue. What about dairy (NYT)
• The race to make the warmest winter clothes (Vox)
• The last fish shack on the river (The Bitter Southerner)
• Inside IKEA's strategy to stay relevant as consumers change (WSJ)
• Microsoft continues march into grocery stores with Albertsons partnership (The Spoon)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Kraft Heinz stock plunges as tastes change and S.E.C investigation begins (NYT)
• The life story of your supermarket chicken (WSJ)
• Henkel goes vegan to revive beauty business (Reuters)
• Instacart delivers groceries, but detaches us from our food (Wired)
• Door Dash raises $400M, now valued at $7.1 billion (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• America at work: A national mosaic and roadmap for tomorrow (Walmart)
• Inside Elizabeth Holmes's chilling final days at Theranos (Vanity Fair)
• Stitch Fix's radical data-driven way to sell clothes is reinventing retail (Fast Company)
• The tragic side of Tide Pods (Fortune)
• From the archives (2016): Parcel delivery: The future of last mile (McKinsey)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Sainsbury's-Asda deal in jeopardy as UK regulator condemns plan (Reuters)
• Egg-free mayo startup Just seeks $200 million in funding (Bloomberg)
• Lab-grown meat could be worse for the environment than beef (MIT Technology Review)
• Pepsi buys Muscle Milk in new CEO's first move (Bloomberg)
• Out of the way human! Delivery robots want a share of your sidewalk (Scientific American)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How US grocers are standing up to Europe's hard discounters (Bain)
• Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true (The Guardian)
• Upscale and mainstream: Can Artizia cater to all (The Globe and Mail)
• Should you ignore what your customers want? The great winemakers do (Kellogg Insight)
• A 'second skin' for fruits and veg could make them last twice as long (MIT Technology Review)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why progressive pricing is becoming a competitive necessity (BCG)
• Freezing your coffee beans? The experts say you're doing it all wrong (WSJ)
• Ocado warehouse fire in Andover finally out (BBC)
• The metamorphosis of 'vegan' (Winsight Grocery Business)
• Tyson made its fortune packing meat. Now it wants to sell you frittatas (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon pulls out of planned New York City headquarters (NYT)
• How fancy water bottles became a 21st century status symbol (The Atlantic)
• Edward Lampert's plan for Sears: Smaller stores and less apparel (WSJ)
• A new law decrees French supermarkets must get greedier (The Economist)
• From the archives (2003): German discounter plans Canadian expansion (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon has a big advertising business. Walmart wants one too (Bloomberg)
• DoorDash reaches for over $6 billion valuation in new funding (WSJ)
• Toys 'R' Us plans a United States comeback (NYT)
• Walmart, Google-backed Deliv end online grocery partnership (Reuters)
• How technology arms the price war (Winsight Grocery Business)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• JAB offers to boost stake in Coty to 60 percent (Reuters)
• Neuroscience is going to change how businesses understand their customers (HBR)
• You call that meat? Not so fast, cattle ranchers say (NYT)
• Prepare to pay more for diapers, Clorox, and cat litter (WSJ)
• Hy-Vee's CEO on growing and experimenting in the Midwest (Grocery Dive)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Dollar store customers unconvinced by proposed change to pricing (FT)
• The prescription drugs that rich people buy (NYT)
• Sainsbury's-Asda merger faces crunch decision (BBC)
• Can lettuce survive climate change (Wired)
• The debates over startups and tipping could be just heating up (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Soggy fries vs. sagging profits: Restaurants face delivery dilemma (WSJ)
• After uproar, Instacart backs off controversial tipping policy (NYT)
• Why online grocery shopping isn't booming - yet (Food & Wine)
• Food delivery pioneer Postmates files to go public (Bloomberg)
• When big-box stores bilk local governments out of property taxes (Slate)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The sommeliers of everything (Washington Post)
• Companies are failing in their efforts to be data-driven (HBR)
• A Russian billionaire's $1.7 billion grocery spree (Bloomberg)
• Food trucks are no longer a novelty, but they are adapting (NYT)
• From the archives (2016): Grocers feel chill from millennials (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Online grocery has been slow to catch on (The Atlantic)
• Retail is broken. Angela Ahrendts has a plan (Vogue)
• Walmart's Plan B for it's UK checkout (WSJ)
• McCormick hands over its spice R&D to IBM's AI (Engadget)
• Domino's rolls into enemy territory (L2)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The surprising value of obvious insights (MIT SMR)
• Omnichannel grocery is open for business - and ready to grow (Bain)
• Doctors surprised by scope of adult-onset allergies (WSJ)
• Missing the points: Cardholders frustrated with PC Optimum (CBC)
• Sunrise Records buys HMV - but 27 British stores will close (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Eating breakfast is not a good weight loss strategy, scientists confirm (Vox)
• Costco fined $7.2M for accepting illegal kickbacks (CBC)
• Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers (Fast Company)
• The death of 'click and collect' food shopping is unavoidable (Globe and Mail)
• IKEA to trial leasing of furniture (The Guardian)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• In defence of old-fashioned grocery shopping (Globe and Mail)
• White gold: The unstoppable rise of alternative milks (The Guardian)
• The Laundress founders come clean on why they sold to Unilever (Fast Company)
• Rexall deal with M&M Food Market furthers drugstore food trend (Globe and Mail)
• Ron Joyce, billionaire that brought Tim Hortons to the masses, dead at 88 (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Purina wants your dog to save the planet by eating fish heads (Bloomberg)
• Landlords relish - or fear - JC Penney store closings (WSJ)
• The wackiest vending machines in the world (CBC)
• How chicken became the rich world's most popular meat (The Economist)
• From the archives (2010): Dollarama aims to keep it simple (Globe and Mail)