Stephan's Friday Picks

• A rare venture capitalist - female and retail-focused (NYT)
• Prescriptions for fresh produce, and other world-changing ideas in food (Fast Company)
• Canada's dairy cartel, the unkillable sacred cow made of other, literal cows (National Post)
• Meet the young founder of chewy.com, which PetSmart just bought for $3.35 billion (Inc)
• Consumer trust in social media 'influencers' drops (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How online shopping makes suckers of us all (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw sells chain of 213 gas stations to Brookfield for $540 million (CBC)
• Silicon Valley's $400 juicer may be feeling the squeeze (Bloomberg)
• Walmart's bargain bin e-commerce plan (Gadfly)
• Primark plans biggest expansion in decade as chain's sales soar (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why diversity programs fail (HBR)
• Post nears $1.76 billion deal for Weetabix (Bloomberg)
• Walmart's e-commerce strategy: Pure genius or venture capitalist bailout fund (Forbes)
• The silent crisis of retail employment (The Atlantic)
• Why drone delivery still has a long way to go before taking off (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Robots are now doing food deliveries (Vox)
• CPG manufacturers need a comprehensive strategy for digitization (McKinsey)
• Amex, challenged by Chase, is losing the snob war (NYT)
• H-E-B is growing salad behind the store (Dallas Morning News)
• Which products should you stock (HBR)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Galen G. Weston: Life at the top of the food chain (Globe and Mail)
• Is CRISPR gene editing driving seed consolidation (Civil Eats)
• How to think about Walmart (The Atlantic)
• How both nutrition and indulgence are propelling growth in CPG (BCG)
• The future of department stores (The Robin Report)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Imagining the retail store of the future (NYT)
• Walmart to lower prices on thousands on a million online-only items but only if you opt for store pickup over delivery (Tech Crunch)
• Tesco lays down price gauntlet to rivals as pressure builds (Bloomberg)
• Goodman Gluten Free expands with Ahold USA (Project Nosh)
• Amazon said to mull Whole Foods bid before Jana stepped in (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How Dollarama became the retail king of knockoffs (Macleans)
• Whole Foods pressured by activist investor Jana Partners (NYT)
• Wall Street's misguided (and dangerous) fascination with retail store productivity (Forbes)
• Sam Adams and Miller fight over the future of craft beer (Fortune)
• How Amazon Go "probably" makes "just walk out" groceries a reality (Ars Technica)