Stephan's Friday Picks

• P&G faces backlash over diaper, sanitary waste (WSJ)
• Inside the Trader Joe's black market resale economy (Refinery29)
• Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn't know existed (Ars Technica)
• Machine learning is making pesto even more delicious (MIT Technology Review)
• From the archives (2011): No Frills: The Atlantic strategy (Canadian Grocer)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Noodle on this: Machine learning that can identify ramen by shop (Google)
• WD-40 does $380 million in sales a year. It's secret sauce is surprisingly simple (Inc)
• Retailers race against Amazon to automate stores (NYT)
• Walmart is in takeover talks with pharmacy startup (Bloomberg)
• 'Craft' beer turns out to be a big business (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Chokepoints and vulnerabilities in global food trade (The Guardian)
• In Unilever's radical hiring experiment, resumes are out, algorithms are in (WSJ)
• How a 36-year-old Wall Street prodigy saved Burger King (Business Insider)
• Amazon robots poised to revamp how Whole Foods runs warehouses (Bloomberg)
• Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Jeff Bezos explains Amazon's artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy (Geekwire)
• Prepared food distribution service Power Supply rebrands as Territory and raises $6.7 million (Tech Crunch)
• Fresh food by prescription (NPR)
• Coke is hurting from the switch to online shopping too (Bloomberg)
• Winning in Polish grocery (Oliver Wyman)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How brands can optimize TV ads to drive product discovery (Google)
• Why retailers should push deli offerings (Retail Dive)
• Canada Bread buys Toronto craft bread maker (Canadian Grocer)
• UK food inflation doubles as discounters grab record grocery share (The Telegraph)
• Target puts machine learning toward unification (Pymnts)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The secret to smart fresh-food replenishment? Machine learning (MQ)\
• Munchery's struggles show how hard the food delivery business is (Bloomberg)
• How your brand can become a 'third place' (K@W)
• Here's why New York has two economic centers (Business Insider)
• Master the chemistry of juicy, tasty salmon (Wired)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Campbell's Soup: Old world? I don't think so (Robin Report)
• Studies show little benefits in supplements (NYT)
• How the vegan movement broke out of its echo chamber and finally started disrupting things (Quartz)
• Dirty linen: A bed sheets scandal hits the cotton industry (Bloomberg)
• As demographics change, food banks struggle to meet users' tastes (Globe and Mail)
• Tesco enjoys fastest growth in three years as Aldi and Lidl slow (The Telegraph)