Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• E-commerce as a jobs engine? One economist's unorthodox view (NYT)
• Kraft's unsavory option (Bloomberg)
• Five questions brands need to answer to be customer-first in the digital age (McKinsey)
• 7-Eleven will sell Soylent, Silicon Valley's ultimate food convenience (Quartz)
• How to make the most of Amazon's prime day (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

•  The next battle in antitrust will be about whether one company knows everything about you (HBR)
• Tren Griffin: A dozen things I've learned from Jim Sinegal (25iq)
• Amazon Prime is on pace to become more popular than cable TV (Recode)
• A strategist's guide to the digital grocery (S&B)
• Albertsons among six firms that vied for Whole Foods (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• America's most venerable brands are struggling (WSJ)
• The international effort to fix Bangladesh's deadly factories has a basic math problem (Quartz)
• Amazon is now developing its own wine (Recode)
• Kroger sues Lidl just two weeks after it lands in the U.S. (Business Insider)
• Fear not pasta lovers: Your meal is safe from wheat's surge (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why the robot takeover of the economy is proceeding slowly (Bloomberg)
• A treehouse grows in Dallas (The Robin Report)
• Sainsbury should leave Nisa on the shelf (Gadfly)
• What's driving consumer desire for plant-based foods (Food Dive)
• Ocado's rose-tinted glasses (Gadfly)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• 3D printers start to build the factories of the future (The Economist)
• How Americans order their steak (538)
• Walmart upgrades to Angus beef (Bloomberg)
• Change management in merger integration (Bain)
• How Nike is using digital channels to drive sales (Digiday)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• To develop a winning strategy, know who you are fighting (McKinsey)
• Craft beer: How big beverage fell in love with small batch brews (Fortune)
• Before they hit the road, driverless vehicles will take over warehouses (MIT Technology Review)
• Target rejiggers brands to lure shoppers (WSJ)
• Probiotics with your pizza (WSJ)

Best of Pax Westona: June 2017

• A street fight among grocers to deliver your milk, eggs, bananas (NYT)
• The shelf life of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey (Texas Monthly)
• The grocery store of the future is mobile, self-driving, and run by AI (Fast Company)
• Shipping giants are looking to self-piloting boats to shift cargo (MIT Technology Review)
• Getting ready to battle grocery's hard discounters (Bain)
• Digital insurgents, emerging models, and the disruption of CPG and retail (BCG)
• Surge pricing comes to the supermarket (The Guardian)
• The struggle to replace Target (Globe and Mail)
• Carrefour faces crossroads as new CEO faces same old problems (FT)
• Yoplait learns to manufacture authenticity to go with its yogurt (NYT)