Stephan's Thursday Picks

• These online grocers want to make it easy for you to shop sustainably (WSJ)
• Chinese city Dalian halts frozen food trade after COVID-19 cases (Reuters)
• IOT value to accelerate through 2030. Where and how to capture it (McKinsey)
• Mondelez sees online snack-shopping boom lasting beyond pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Food inflation pushes up pot roast prices in Canada (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Theranos whistleblower shook the company - and his family (WSJ)
• Big data at Tesco: Real time analytics at the UK grocery retail giant (Forbes)
• Echo and Alex are two years old: Here's what Amazon has learned so far (Fast Company)
• Why it no longer pays to work for a larger firm (Knowledge@Wharton)
• How UPS stays steady in center of e-commerce shipping storm (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Trucking startup Convoy inks its biggest deal with Unilever (Bloomberg)
• Diageo: Zero-based budgeting is 'the new normal' for doing business (Marketing Week)
• IBM's Watson is everywhere - but what is it (MIT Technology Review)
• We're paying CEOs all wrong (Bloomberg)
• Williams-Sonoma hops on the meal kit bandwagon (Eater)
• From fried spider to grilled bat, four of the best Southeast Asian foodie tours (South China Morning Post)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The year ahead 2017: Retail (Bloomberg) 
• This is why you shouldn't believe that exciting new medical story (Vox)
• Push my buttons: Experiments in automated consumption (Economist)
• The many challenges of CPG and retail startups (Collaborative Fund)
• To Amazon and Wal-Mart, big data and small data are one and the same (Forbes)
• The weird economics of Ikea (fivethirtyeight)
• Watch out Wal-Mart. Amazon is coming after the grocery business (Bloomberg) 

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Honeycrisp was just the beginning (Vox)
• Making data analytics work for you (MQ)
• Wal-Mart and Flipkart: A grocery giant in the making? (Bloomberg)
• Unilever's 'People Insights' approach to understanding the customer (AMA)
• The role of IOT in the evolving retail landscape (Robin Report)
• Whole Foods sets up shop in low-income neighbourhoods (WSJ)