Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Nestle may sell allergy unit in health strategy U-turn (Bloomberg)
• Alexa, is the voice assistant industry doomed (CBC)
• Amazon wants to review your sleep (NYT)
• Why Christmas trees are scarce and more expensive this year (CBC)
• Dumpster diving to shame stores and fight waste (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside Amazon’s plan for Alexa to run your entire life (MIT TR)
• Get ready to try the Impossible Burger of ice cream (Grub Street)
• Plant-based meat get their beefy taste from flavorists (WP)
• Beauty giant Coty tries on a smaller size (WSJ)
• UPS delivers prescription medications to US homes by drone for the first time (The Verge)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon will let anyone answer your Alexa questions now (Fast Company)
• Walmart will take its Amazon Prime competitor nationwide (Fortune)
• Interview: Tim Richards, founder of Vue cinemas (The Sunday Times)
• Kroger's sales rise after digital investments (WSJ)
• Meat industry says China's pork, beef ban costing it $100 million (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Are you agile enough for agile management (WSJ)
• Packaging solutions. Poised to take off? (McKinsey)
• Why do appliances have their own jingles (The Atlantic)
• It's hot. It's August. It's pumpkin spice time? (NYT)
• As customers begin to shop through voice assistants, what can brands do to stand out (HBR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The future of retail: Winning models for a new era (Bain)
• Wish, the viral online shopping app, explained (Vox)
• Nuro will deliver Domino's pizza with its robots in Houston (Quartz)
• Hey Alexa, why is voice shopping so bad (Wired)
• Meatless future or vegan delusions. The Beyond Meat valuation (Musings on Markets)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon's Alexa team can access user's home addresses (Bloomberg)
• How French's ketchup took a bite out of Heinz (CBC)
• Is that chic toothpaste worth the price (NYT)
• Raising wages is good for your workers, and doesn't have to hurt your bottom line (HBR)
• Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Is Alexa dangerous (The Atlantic)
• Tesco to scrap 'best before' dates from fruit and vegetable lines (The Guardian)
• Luxury brands are going direct-to-consumer (Quartz)
• Amazon is diversifying its private brand strategy (Retail Dive)
• From the archives (2013): Dave Nichol, a legend within the grocery world (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Modern apothecary (MIT Technology Review)
• Dollar stores are thriving - but are they ripping off poor people (The Guardian)
• Bezos's big blunder: Amazon's Alexa is getting clobbered (Axios)
• Delivering Amazon packages to the top of the world (NYT)
• Target, Walmart automate more store tasks (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon's typical worker is in a warehouse making $28.446 a year (WSJ)
• Metro says strong economy, employment offsetting promo pressure (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon to start offering in-car deliveries (WSJ)
• What does the Amazon Echo look mean for personal style (Racked)
• Instagram famous: Why grocers should make their food photo-worthy (Food Dive)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Inside the strange odyssey of hedge fund king Eddie Lampert (Vanity Fair)
• Grocery wars turn small chains into battleground casualties (NYT)
• Maker of Sharpies drew the line on trade promotions - and paid in lost sales (WSJ)
• Carrefour calls on Google for voice boost in battle with Amazon (Reuters)
• Do people really get promoted to their level of incompetence (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Big consumer brands don't have an answer for Alexa (WSJ)
• Amazon agrees to buy smart-doorbell startup Ring (Bloomberg)
• Consumer goods: Big brands battle with the 'little guys' (FT)
• How craft breweries are helping to revive local economies (NYT)
• Ford targets Miami to test driverless food delivery (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Six ways that new technologies will revolutionize shopping (Wired)
• Amazon's grocery sales increased after it devoured Whole Foods (WSJ)
• Alexa, we're still trying to figure out what to do with you (NYT)
• The tiny IKEA of the future, without meatballs or mazes (Bloomberg)
• Nutella maker to pay $2.8 billion for Nestle U.S. candy unit (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon Alexa is opening up to more sponsored product ads (CNBC)
• In 2018, Amazon will turn to private label goods (Digiday)
• Houston's not eating that well. Can a new mobile grocery help (Houston Chronicle)
• Aldi racks up more than 200 private label awards (Food Dive)
• Dairies are awash in organic milk as consumers jump to alternatives (WSJ)