Stephan's Friday Picks

• Hudson's Bay Company cutting 2,000 jobs amid reorganization (CBC)
• The latest battleground between Coke and Pepsi is coconut water (Quartz)
• How Ocado is redefining grocery fulfillment (Retail Week)
• Tech has taken the work out of couponing (Washington Post)
• Pirate Joe's closes in Vancouver rather than fight U.S. grocer Trader Joe's (Globe and Mail)

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 Tuesday Picks

• Surge pricing comes to the supermarket (The Guardian)
• Why companies should measure 'share of growth', not just market share (HBR)
• The struggle to replace Target (Globe and Mail)
• Online grocer Ocado finally lands overseas deal (NYT)
• Walmart touts investment in people, technology as advantages (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart is accused of punishing workers for sick days (NYT)
• There's no such thing as big data in HR (HBR)
• Walmart's big new problem isn't Amazon (Gadfly)
• Don't give up on corporate culture (MIT SMR)
• Conagra shouldn't reach for Pinnacle (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Blue Apron files for an IPO (NYT)
• Walmart begins testing associate delivery (Walmart)
• Sears and the demise of an American retail icon (Washington Post)
• Sugar as a slow poison (Miles Kimball)
• One of Crispr's creators faces her fears (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Mary Meeker's 2017 internet trends report (Tech Crunch)
• Lidl announces locations of first 9 store locations (Food Dive)
• Scientists discover a sixth sense on the tongue - for water (Science)
• Is that a farm on your roof? Agriculture is thriving in some unlikely places (World Economic Forum)
• Whole Foods represents the failures of 'conscious capitalism' (The Guardian)