Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Strategy, disruption & you (Medium)
• The best way to de-stress workers? Scrap meetings (Bloomberg)
• Unlocking value in food service through revenue growth management (McKinsey)
• How we lost our sensory connection with food - and how to get it back (The Guardian)
• How much do things really cost (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Roger Martin: How to make your partnerships more strategic (HBR)
• Corner stores are the new darlings of the tech industry (The Atlantic)
• The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut (Washington Post)
• Deadly collapse at Amazon warehouse puts spotlight on phone ban (Bloomberg)
• How fear of disruption, 'free money', and the lure of alts profits drove record M&A (Institutional Investor)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Disruption starts with unhappy customers, not technology (HBR)
• Germany's Aldi enters tough China market (FT)
• Walmart employees will soon deliver groceries directly into your fridge (The Verge)
• Hot trend: Spicy sauces are on fire (WSJ)
• As Walmart turns to robots, it's the human workers that feel like machines (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why do we hate decaf so much (Vox)
• Disruptive technology may change the whiskey industry (The Economist)
• The oddly named energy bar that rocketed to the moon (Gastro Obscura)
• The woes and wins of one man's first Seniors Day (Globe and Mail)
• Why food delivery companies want to create super-users (WSJ)

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

• How retail responds to disruption (MIT SMR)
• For better retail promotions, ask these questions (HBR)
• Walmart adopts virtual reality to train its workforce for Black Friday (Vox)
• Walmart's roar is getting loud enough to rattle Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Online shopping gets more complicate (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Quaker bets oat milk is more than just a passing fad (NYT)
• How robots and drones will change retail forever (WSJ)
• The fancy convenience store trend is spreading (Eater)
• Pardon the disruption. Field notes from the battle of Richmond (Grocery Dive)
• Walmart unveils high tech grocery warehouse (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tesco profit overstatement prompted 'tears and resignations' (FT)
• Nestle can head off a fight with Dan Loeb (NYT)
• Dear Olive Garden, never change (Eater)
• Amazon is eyeing these grocery stores in France for possible deals (Fortune)
• Silicon Valley's next target for disruption is socks (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Mayonnaise, disrupted (The Atlantic)
• Can anyone beat Jeff Bezos (Vanity Fair)
• Turning strategy into results (MIT SMR)
• Being too busy for friends won't help your career (HBR)
• Metro seals deal for Jean Coutu to form Quebec powerhouse (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• This tiny country feeds the world (National Geographic)
• The secret sauce of test-tube fish (NeoLife)
• L'Oreal's problem with men (Bloomberg)
• Food stamps are finally being disrupted (Wired)
• Kraft Heinz promotes 29-year-old Goldman alum to CFO role (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey (LinkedIn)
• Is Unilever the last good big company (Bloomberg)
• What does it cost to start a new farm (Fast Company)
• Juicero, the $700 juicer startup, is looking for a buyer - and shutting down in the meantime (ReCode)
• Grocery business ripe for disruption (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Brands fight over nutrition facts labels (WSJ)
• Thousands line up to get a job at Amazon (Washington Post)
• What digital disruptors can teach traditional retailers (K@W)
• Coffee is Amazon's most popular grocery item (Food and Wine)
• Mondelez's self-aware CEO pick (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Amazon's grocery push playing catch-up with Chinese e-commerce giants (Reuters)
• Blue Apron promised to bring disruption to the food business. Then it got disrupted (Washington Post)
• Amazon-Whole Foods deal puts spotlight on Carrefour (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba considers Detroit for distribution center (Crain's)
• What happens when organic farms are forced to spray conventional pesticides (Civil Eats)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart is famous for destroying small towns. Here's the amazing one it built (Quartz)
• If your company isn't good at analytics, it's not ready for AI (HBR)
• It's not just retail that's changing. It's us (Bloomberg View)
• The real lessons from Kodak's decline (MIT SMR)
• The rise and fall of J.Crew (Quartz)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Digital insurgents, emerging models, and the disruption of CPG and retail (BCG)
• Why retailers should worry less about free shipping (K@W)
• Customers' need to touch and feel ensures Ikea's online surge doesn't hurt store traffic (Financial Post)
• No one is drinking orange juice anymore (Quartz)
• Blue Apron's messy shelves (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Consumer and retail M&A in 2017 (AT Kearney)
• Chinese online retailer JD.com is developing heavy-duty delivery drones (WSJ)
• Many workers at 'world changing' tech companies may as well work at Walmart (Quartz)
• The wondrous, and completely terrifying world of food (Fast Company)
• General Mills loses the culture wars (Fortune)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Video captures moment plastic enters food chain (BBC)
• Big tobacco has caught startup fever (Bloomberg)
• How to cut costs more strategically (HBR)
• Lindt's chocolate blueprint for Nestle (Gadfly)
• The story of Heady Topper - America's obsession-driving double IPA (Food and Wine)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The rise of craft chocolate (Bloomberg)
• Kroger and Murray's Cheese announce merger (Kroger)
• Albertson's CEO: From grocery clerk to head of more than 2,300 stores (WSJ)
• Dollar disruptors: How discount stores are shaking up the grocery world (Food Dive)
• Priced to go (The New Yorker)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world (MQ)
• How big-box retailers weaponize old stores (Bloomberg)
• Keep calm and manage disruption (MIT SMR)
• Why Canadian lobster has become unaffordable to most Canadians (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon's 1997 Shareholder Letter (Amazon)