Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Beyond bankruptcy: How failed stores come back online (WSJ)
• The secret life of the city banana (NYT)
• Kraft's sales to grocery stores sputter while growth stays elusive (Bloomberg)
• Nestle Pure Life relaunches brand (Packaging World)
• How Blue Buffalo plows its way to search success (L2)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Brands fight over nutrition facts labels (WSJ)
• Thousands line up to get a job at Amazon (Washington Post)
• What digital disruptors can teach traditional retailers (K@W)
• Coffee is Amazon's most popular grocery item (Food and Wine)
• Mondelez's self-aware CEO pick (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico (The Guardian)
• Food giants say they're ready for Amazon, but Wall Street is skeptical (Bloomberg)
• What's behind JD.com's China e-commerce ascent (L2)
• Amazon's new robo-picker champion is proudly inhuman (MIT Technology Review)
• Peltz, P&G expect to spend $60 million on record proxy fight (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why the hatchet men of 3G spent $10 million on a better Oscar Mayer Weiner (Bloomberg)
• Reshaping 'retail-tainment' in the Middle-East and beyond (McKinsey)
• P&G hits back at Peltz, says investor not entitled to board seat (Reuters)
• Why the meal kit business is increasingly on our menu (Financial Post)
• Big data and first degree price discrimination (Bruegel)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The online grocery trends is coming at a vulnerable time for gum and candy companies (Quartz)
• Private equity and retail - a match made for striking (Retail Dive)
• Joe Fresh to expand into plus sizes with fall line (CBC)
• Metro to buy majority stake in meal kit service (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart Canada cancels grocery pickup fee (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Supermarkets face a growing problem: Too much space (WSJ)
• Wisconsin company offers microchip implants to employees (CBC)
• Cheap eggs flood U.S. grocery stores (WSJ)
• Chemistry prof studying ways to keep frozen lobster fresh (CBC)
• Are the wines from Costco, Amazon or Whole Foods any good (Bloomberg)

Best of Pax Westona: July 2016

• Albertsons CEO on his life, work, stores, and Amazon (Idaho Statesman)
• Inside Hampton Creek's empty boardroom (Bloomberg)
• AI may soon replace even the most elite consultants (HBR)
• Betting on things that never change (Collaborative Fund)
• P&G chief executive wrestles with changing an 'insular' culture (FT)
• Big Food's next big problem: Supermarket brands (WSJ)
• Brittain Ladd: A beautiful way to save Woolworth's (Linkedin)
• Is the famous 'paradox of choice' a myth (PBS)
• Tren Griffin: A dozen things I've learned from Jim Sinegal (25iq)
• America's most venerable brands are struggling (WSJ)