Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Uber hopes drones can lift it to profitability (Wired)
• Amazon drops grocery delivery fee as competitors close in (Reuters)
• Walgreens to close in-store clinics, make way for new services (Bloomberg)
• Is your cashew-milk latte an ethical choice (Quartz)
• Feel like you're the only one buying your own groceries at Whole Foods? Possibly (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The truth about open offices (HBR)
• The first map of America's food supply chain is mind-boggling (Fast Company)
• H&M CEO sees 'terrible' fallout as consumer shaming spreads (Bloomberg)
• Diaper rush: Conquering a $9 billion market no one wants to talk about (Reuters)
• The story of the Entenmann family bakery fortune (Town & Country)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The next wave of consumer M&A: Searching for growth (McKinsey)
• How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisle (Vox)
• The drones are here (WSJ)
• There are more knockoff Tommy's chili burgers in LA than genuine ones (LA Times)
• Meat theft: The strange new crime taking over Winnipeg grocery stores (Macleans)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Bon Appetit became a YouTube sensation (Man Repeller)
• Inside the Nordstrom dynasty (NYT)
• Amazon ready to pour billions into policing its products on its site (WSJ)
• We wouldn't have e-commerce without Amazon (Quartz)
• How Best Buy's Barry went from 'risk' to CEO (Fortune)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The junk food that wants to have it both ways (WSJ)
• One family built Forever 21, and fueled its collapse (NYT)
• Scientists are literally spinning up lab-grown meat (Wired)
• Sorry - organic farming is actually worse for the climate change (MIT TR)
• From the archives (2008): A store and a vision (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The great Texas whiskey boom (Texas Monthly)
• Amazon acquires digital health startup Health Navigator (CNBC)
• Would you like fries with that? McDonald's already knows the answer (NYT)
• These $50 chicken nuggets were grown in a lab (Bloomberg)
• Ex-Stitch Fix COO raises $30 million for AI-powered shopping platform (Vogue)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Online advertisers tell you what to buy, advertisers wonder who's listening (WSJ)
• HBC accepts sweetened takeover bid from Baker (Globe and Mail)
• Bidding war breaks out for food delivery service Just Eat (Bloomberg)
• The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR (MIT TR)
• The world can make more water from the sea, but at what cost (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Eataly announces opening date for their first Toronto location (BlogTO)
• The limits of the pursuit of profit (FT)
• Revenue growth management : The next horizon (McKinsey)
• Why do Canadians buy milk in bags (Eater)
• Why Amazon returns cost millions and how Kohl's is helping (CNBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Inside beauty brand Deciem's ambitious comeback (Vogue)
• Fred Smith created FedEx. Now he has to reinvent it (WSJ)
• How climate change impacts wine (NYT)
• Move over Honeycrisp: New apples hit the shelves (WP)
• Amazon is selling individual $1 items with free one-day delivery (Vox)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Aldi, Lidl cut into U.S. grocers' turf (WSJ)
• Meet America's newest military giant: Amazon (MIT TR)
• What to expect from the new Wegmans in New York (Eater)
• How a Mexican general's exile led to chewing gum (Gastro Obscura)
• From the archives (2015): With Safeway deal complete, Sobeys demands price cuts from suppliers (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The new makers of plant-based meat? Big meat companies (NYT)
• Silicon Valley takes on Amazon's cashierless 'Go' stores (WSJ)
• How America lost dinner (The Atlantic)
• What great category strategies can do for procurement (BCG)
• Lego considers rental scheme as it seeks to reduce plastic waste (The Telegraph)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Five reasons the diet soda myth won't die (NYT)
• The yogurt industry has been using CRISPR for a decade (The Atlantic)
• Wegmaniacs count the days to Brooklyn store opening (WSJ)
• The 'retail apocalypse' is an apparel apocalypse (Retail Dive)
• It's used 4,600 times a second but most North Americans have never heard of Maggi (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Is Amazon unstoppable (The New Yorker)
• Food companies put supply chains under the microscope (WSJ)
• Flour power: Meet the bread heads baking a better loaf (The Guardian)
• Uber acquires Cornershop, a grocery delivery startup (NYT)
• It dominates everything it touches. But can Amazon compete with ... Walmart (Institutional Investor)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Glossier grew from millennial catnip to billion dollar juggernaut (Vanity Fair)
• Juul is the new Big Tobacco (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Bezos's master plan (The Atlantic)
• Fast food chains launch grocery store versions of menu items in competitive market (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (1990): No Perrier? A status bubble bursts (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Taking on the tortilla industry (NYT)
• There's a new source for meat substitutes: Fungi (WSJ)
• Behind Amazon's sudden change in its film strategy (NYT)
• Grocers like Aldi and Trader Joe's are trying to cut down on plastic waste (Vox)
• Shiseido inks $845 million deal for skincare firm Drunk Elephant (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Instacart orders rebound after losing Whole Foods (Bloomberg)
• China turns to strategic pork reserve (NYT)
• Meat, milk groups seek to defend supermarket turf (WSJ)
• Dean & Deluca's Soho store closed for 'renovations' (Grub Street)
• This bus is actually a grocery store, bringing healthy food where it's needed most (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Changing snack appetites leave granola bars behind (WSJ)
• What your local Costco says about you (Taste)
• What, and why, is a whisky pod (Slate)
• Why Chicago is the nation's capital of food and beverage manufacturing (Food Dive)
• Water bottles have long been the unexpected status symbol of high school (Eater)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The pleasures of eating alone (WSJ)
• Forever 21 underestimated young women (The Atlantic)
• Fashion trade groups say Amazon facilitates counterfeits (Fast Company)
• How Dave Lewis saved Tesco from disaster (The Guardian)
• Bodega, once dubbed 'America's most hated startup', has quietly raised millions (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The market for alternative proteins (McKinsey)
• Postmates, DoorDash want to deliver your groceries too (WSJ)
• How Irish butter Kerrygold conquered America's kitchens (Bloomberg)
• Tesco chief Dave Lewis announces surprise departure (The Guardian)
• From the archives (1985): The fall of Black's Dominion (Maclean's)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon's grocery store plans move ahead with Los Angeles leases (WSJ)
• Suits aren't popular anymore. Here's why (Vox)
• India isn't letting a single onion leave the country (NYT)
• UPS just won FAA approval to fly as many drone deliveries as it wants (The Verge)
• RxBar founder Peter Rahal on what it's like to become an overnight millionaire (Medium)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The kale craze might be ending (The Atlantic)
• How PetSmart swallowed Chewy - and proved the doubters wrong (WSJ)
• McDonald's CEO wants Big Macs to keep up with Big Tech (Bloomberg)
• Eat less red meat, scientists said. Now some believe that was bad advice (NYT)
• If you're an American who loves kiwi, jackfruit, or jicama, you have this 96-year-old woman to thank (WP)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The age of bathfluence (The New Yorker)
• How to develop an appetite for insects (NYT)
• Forever 21 files for bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
• Food52 sells to the Chernin Group (Vox)
• India's holiday e-commerce sales to test severity of shopping slump (WSJ)