Stephan's Friday Picks

• The uncertain future of post-pandemic Starbucks (Marker)
• A close look at a fashion supply chain is not pretty (NYT)
• Coronavirus shifts power to FedEx and UPS, and they are using it (WSJ)
• A new model for the consumer goods industry (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2010): Stop trying to delight your customers (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Rite Aid deployed facial recognition in hundreds of its stores (Reuters)
• Tech giants grilled for hours over allegations of anti-competitive behaviour (Financial Post)
• Walmart to impose new fees on supplier to offset $3.5 billion investment (Globe and Mail)
• Malls seek to evolve as the pandemic hastens a retail overhaul (NYT)
• Shopify soars as pandemic pushes more businesses to e-commerce (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How to ramp up online grocery without breaking the bank (Bain)
• Ben & Jerry's radical ice cream dreams (NYT)
• Amazon steps up competition in UK online grocery sales (Reuters)
• Jeans losing out as pandemic ushers in a new era of comfort (Washington Post)
• Sherwin-Williams gains on pandemic's do-it-yourself painting boom (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Walmart, Kroger bottle their own milk and shake up American dairy industry (WSJ)
• Mondelez CEO Dick Van de Put on snacking during the Covid crisis (Bloomberg)
• Understanding and shaping consumer behaviour in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Hygiene theater is a huge waste of time (The Atlantic)
• When we were bread heads (The Cut)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Ben & Jerry's perfected the delicate recipe for corporate activism (Bloomberg)
• Amazon's new antitrust headache (WSJ)
• How Costco convinces brands to cannibalize themselves (Napkin Math)
• Is the five-day office week over (NYT)
• Online retail sales doubled as Canadians turned to e-commerce (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Habits, COVID, and Strategy (Medium)
• With indoor dining upended, some restaurants call it quits (WSJ)
• How to sell books in 2020: Put them near the toilet paper (NYT)
• U.S. beef-pricing probe falls short of confirming manipulation (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2017): Galen G. Weston: Life at the top of the food chain (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Retail sales rebound nearly wipes our pandemic nosedive (Globe and Mail)
• Why it's still so tough to find disinfectant wipes (Slate)
• The future of our food supply (Bloomberg)
• A framework for retail success in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Sobeys unveils new three-year growth strategy (Empire)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Restaurant industry warns future at risk without relief (Globe and Mail)
• What we eat during a plague (NYT)
• Walmart restarts talks on selling Asda (The Guardian)
• The impact of a newly remote workforce at Microsoft (HBR)
• Consumer decision making in healthcare: The role of information transparency (McKinsey)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Re-imagining marketing in the next normal (McKinsey)
• The battle for south-east Asia's online shoppers (FT)
• How Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic (Fast Company)
• Trader Joe's to re-brand international food after petition calls to get rid of 'racist branding' (NYT)
• KFC is working with a Russian 3D bio-printing firm to try to make lab-grown chicken nuggets (The Verge)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down (The Guardian)
• The slow death of the all-you-can-eat buffet (BBC)
• The consumer sector in 2020 and beyond (McKinsey)
• Amazon plans to open three grocery stores in Philadelphia area (Grocery Dive)
• Lynne Oliver built the Food Timeline. Now it needs a new owner (Eater)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Coronavirus-hit retailers create new curbside shopping experiences (WSJ)
• Virtual health: A look at the next frontier of care delivery (McKinsey)
• U.S. retail sales rose and jobless claims hold steady (NYT)
• Amazon's boom keeps its Canadian real estate partner humming (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2013): Living in the futures (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Private equity-owned retail is as vulnerable as ever (Retail Dive)
• Demand for robot cooks rise as kitchens fight COVID-19 (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus has Americans hooked on canned tuna, and producers are playing catch-up (WSJ)
• Making faux meat taste like the real thing (Bloomberg)
• Toronto online product sampling company Sampler sees business soar as in-store sampling comes to a halt (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The promise and peril of virtual health care (The New Yorker)
• Amazon unveils shopping cart that knows what you're buying (Washington Post)
• Walmart, Target seek bigger share of online market (Fast Company)
• Burger King's climate solution is a limited supply Whopper (Bloomberg)
• How quantitative models can - and can't - change the world (McKinsey)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Taking supplier collaboration to the next level (McKinsey)
• The Tanger Outlets CEO thinks online shopping is overrated. Now he's betting on it (WSJ)
• Fitting rooms are going virtual (Washington Post)
• Chipotle tests cauliflower rice to lure health-conscious diners (Bloomberg)
• Oat milk company Oatly raises $200M, valued at $2 billion (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Pandemic to spark biggest retreat for meat eating in decades (Bloomberg)
• MPs grill grocery store execs over pandemic pay cancellations (CBC)
• The All-American battle for your delivery dollars (WSJ)
• Farm-to-table during a pandemic (Washington Post)
• Inside Uber's billion-dollar bet on Postmates (Fast Company)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Can salad bars be saved (Bloomberg)
• DavidsTea to 'significantly reduce' number of stores and shift to online selling (CBC)
• Bed Bath & Beyond to sell 200 stores as sales fall by 50% (WSJ)
• As debt soars, Ottawa banks on record low interest rates (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2017): A first look at how Lidl plans to conquer the U.S. (Washington Post)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A case for turning empty malls into housing (Bloomberg)
• Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer, closes stores (CNBC)
• Le Chateau warns there is 'significant doubt' it can stay in business (Globe and Mail)
• The lives upended over a $20 cheeseburger (Washington Post)
• The world of cheap food and its consequences (Times Literary Supplement)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Coffee, cocoa industries warn of child labour in desperate times (Bloomberg)
• How the pandemic is shaping consumption (WSJ)
• The pandemic is rewriting the rules of retail (HBR)
• Our cash-free future is getting closer (NYT)
• Uber getting into grocery delivery business in Canada (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The president of CVS Caremark on improving healthcare delivery (McKinsey)
• A thousand pork workers test positive at JBS plant in Brazil (Bloomberg)
• With department stores disappearing, malls could be next (NYT)
• Masks and makeup don't mix, so cosmetic fans seek permanent fix (WSJ)
• Fashion retailers confront shifts amid 'long, slow ramp' to a new normal (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How the pandemic changed the way we eat (The Guardian)
• Americans are stocking up on comfort foods (Food and Wine)
• The meltdown at the Museum of Ice Cream (Forbes)
• For Maine lobstermen, a perfect storm threatens their summer (NYT)
• Uber, Postmates, agree on $2.65 billion all-stock deal (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How a short seller's warning helped take down Luckin' Coffee (WSJ)
• Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks (Reuters)
• Why your grocery bill is about to go up (Financial Post)
• Couche-Tard quarterly revenue tops estimates, helped by panic buying (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2003): The Wal-Mart you don't know (Fast Company)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The real cost of Amazon (Vox)
• Uber makes offer to buy Postmates delivery service (NYT)
• Kim Kardashian West's beauty brand valued at $1 billion in deal with Coty (WSJ)
• Alberta Safeway workers vote in favour of strike after company ends 'hero pay' (CBC)
• Can self-serve food make a comeback when no one wants to touch anything (Financial Post)

Best of Pax Westona: June 2020

• Amazon's big breakdown (NYT)
• Wegmans pampered its shoppers. Now it has to protect them (WSJ)
• The sickness in our food supply (New York Review of Books)
• The end of minimalism (The Atlantic)
• How Tim Hortons knows where you live, work, and vacation (Financial Post)
• Redefining value and affordability in retail's next normal (McKinsey)
• How Canada failed migrant farm workers (Globe and Mail)
• The genius of supermarkets (The Atlantic)
• Our ghost-kitchen future (The New Yorker)
• Vegan Mexican food is taking Southern California by storm (LA Times)