Stephan's Monday Picks

• This tiny country feeds the world (National Geographic)
• The secret sauce of test-tube fish (NeoLife)
• L'Oreal's problem with men (Bloomberg)
• Food stamps are finally being disrupted (Wired)
• Kraft Heinz promotes 29-year-old Goldman alum to CFO role (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The new frontier of price optimization (MIT SMR)
• Unilever, Nestle snap up organic tea and vegetarian burritos (Bloomberg)
• Trian details its case for changes at P&G in white paper (WSJ)
• Amazon plans second headquarters, opening a bidding war among cities (NYT)
• Private equity loves supermarkets, but do retailers benefit (Food Dive)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The high-tech vertical farm promises Whole Foods quality at Walmart prices (Bloomberg)
• Putting lifelong learning on the CEO agenda (McKinsey)
• Fancy snacks are having a moment. Venture capital wants in (Eater)
• Checkout systems are going autonomous (MIT Technology Review)
• Toys 'R' Us is said to hire advisers to help weigh bankruptcy (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Behind a $13 shirt, a $6-an-hour worker (Los Angeles Times)
• When celery was king (Taste)
• Why do so many incompetent men become leaders (HBR)
• Big Food faces pressure from retailers demanding discounts (WSJ)
• An activist investor's latest tactic - playing nice (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey (LinkedIn)
• Is Unilever the last good big company (Bloomberg)
• What does it cost to start a new farm (Fast Company)
• Juicero, the $700 juicer startup, is looking for a buyer - and shutting down in the meantime (ReCode)
• Grocery business ripe for disruption (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Who is winning the food delivery war (Priconomics)
• Grocers, don't be blinded by Bezos (Bloomberg)
• It's not just a pickle on the side (WSJ)
• The man who sold his supermarket to Whole Foods talks about the future of grocery stores (Washington Post)
• Amazon's fight for more Whole Foods market share is going to be a long slog (Quartz)

Best of Pax Westona: August 2017

• Why the hatchet men of 3G spent $10 million on a better Oscar Mayer Weiner (Bloomberg)
• Supermarkets face a growing problem: Too much space (WSJ)
• Management is much more than a science (HBR)
• Head of America's largest grocer talks Amazon and ugly tomatoes (WSJ)
• End of the checkout line: The looming crisis for American cashiers (The Guardian)
• The incredible shrinking Sears (NYT)
• What brands are actually behind Trader Joe's snacks (Eater)
• At Walmart Academy, training better managers, but with a better future? (NYT)
• Inside the secret world of global food spies (Bloomberg)
• Amazon's new robo-picker champion is proudly inhuman (MIT Technology Review)