Stephan's Friday Picks

• How vaping became a public health crisis (New York Magazine)
• The lucrative, largely unregulated, and widely misunderstood world of vaping (California Sunday Magazine)
• Nestle invests $200 million in Aimmune after peanut drug allergy approval (Reuters)
• Canadian antitrust officials probe farm giants (WSJ)
• From the archives (1986): Why Winnipeg makes a great test market (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why do people hate vegans (The Guardian)
• Meet Maangchi, the internet's favourite Korean home cook (The Verge)
• The future of food. Meatless? (McKinsey)
• Altria cuts value of Juul stake by $4.5 billion (WSJ)
• From the archives (1994): Home Depot buys Aikenhead's in Canada (NYT)

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 Wednesday Picks

• Kraft Heinz: Two food giants that haven't gone so well together (NYT)
• Federal prosecutors conducting criminal probe of Juul (WSJ)
• Boston Beer Truly hard seltzer drives sales, not Sam Adams (Bloomberg)
• How health food invaded the beauty aisle (Vox)
• Ocado co-founder rejects 'ludicrous' espionage claims (FT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why are products for older people so ugly (MIT Technology Review)
• What sandwich war? KFC sells out of plant-based chicken in Atlanta (NYT)
• Spanish delivery app targets supermarkets as consolidation looms (Bloomberg)
• Falling tobacco demand spurs Philip Morris, Altria to talk merger (WSJ)
• Why complexity sells (Collaborative Fund)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Walmart is said to explore options for Asda including IPO (Bloomberg)
• CVS is opening hundreds of SmileDirectClub shops in its stores (CNBC)
• Walmart to develop its own supply chain for Angus beef (WSJ)
• Walgreens is latest to raise smoking (and vaping) age to 21 (NYT)
• Plant based eating goes mainstream as Beyond Meat targets Canadian grocery shelves (CBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why Altria bet on Juul, the vaping upstart aiming to kill cigarettes (WSJ)
• 'Amazon is a threat' but IKEA's digital chief says she has a plan (CNBC)
• This Red Bull rival is now the top-performing drinks company (Bloomberg)
• How Bob's Red Mill Company became a gluten-free giant ahead of its time (NPR)
• Can Amazon reinvent the traditional grocery store (Knowledge@Wharton)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The dollar store backlash has begun (City Lab)
• Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon marketplace (The Verge)
• Juul closes deal with tobacco giant Altria (NYT)
• Cigna closes $54 billion purchase of Express Scripts (Reuters)
• Amazon's grocery push keeps stumbling after Whole Foods purchase (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• With a pinch of innovation, food makers raise prices (WSJ)
• Amazon flexes its muscle on private label (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Prime 2-day shipping doesn't ship for Christmas (Fast Company)
• Altria is nearing a deal to take a 35% stake in Juul (WSJ)
• From the archives (2011): Weston supremacy (FT)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Plastic water bottles, which enabled a drinks boom, now threaten a crisis (WSJ)
• When the makers of Marlboro and Corona get into marijuana (NYT)
• Gillette used to rule razors. Then came Harry's and Dollar Shave Club (Vox)
• Procter & Gamble acquires Walker & Co. (Tech Crunch)
• From the archives (2017): How Amanda Chantal Bacon perfected the celebrity wellness business (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why kombucha may never make it really big (Bloomberg)
• Pioneering perspectives from online grocery (Winsight Grocery Business)
• The business value of design (McKinsey)
• The big lies of strategy (Rotman Management)
• Altria makes big controversial bets in search of growth (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Sears clings to catalog thinking in an online world (NYT)
• The wonder of Wegmans (PYMNTS)
• British American Tobacco takes control of Reynolds for $49bn (BBC)
• Japan's richest man loses $1.4 billion in one day due to 'warm weather' (Yahoo) 
• Traditional retailers are using a trick to make same-store sales look better (Business Insider)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Shoppers Drug Mart formally applies to distribute medical marijuana (CBC)
• In Marlboro country, a big-money race for the new smoke (Bloomberg)
• What books inspired famous startup founders (Equities)
• Managing the bots that are managing the business (MIT SMR)
• Deal making preserves Coors clan as American beer dynasty (WSJ)
• Grocery e-tailer Satvacart attracts more angel investment (VC Circle)
• Uber self-driving truck packed with Budweiser makes first delivery in Colorado (Bloomberg)
• Online grocery shopping comes to Metro (CG)