Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The lonely future of buying stuff (Bloomberg)
• Post to buy Bob Evans packaged food business for $1.5 billion (WSJ)
• Toys 'R' Us files for bankruptcy in Canada, US (CBC)
• Walgreens said to tweak Rite Aid deal to win U.S. approval (Bloomberg)
• Mobile-ready pack shots boost conversion (L2)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Amazon grocery threat could ramp up food M&A (Bloomberg)
• People don't buy groceries online because they prefer to pick things out in stores (Quartz)
• CFO at 29? Kraft Heinz move spotlights a pattern at 3G Capital (WSJ)
• The amazing ways Coca Cola uses AI and big data to drive success (Forbes)
• At bug eating festival, kids crunch down on the food of the future (NPR)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Big Business got Brazil hooked on junk food (NYT)
• How Kirkland Signature became one of Costco's biggest success stories (WSJ)
• Amazon sees snack sales surge as part of its grocery push (Bloomberg)
• Nestle targets high-end coffee by taking majority stake in Blue Bottle (NYT)
• Kroger won't beat Amazon with a restaurant (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The future of retail is stores that aren't stores (The Atlantic)
• Sobeys making progress, but still has 'significant work to do' (Globe and Mail)
• Bayer and Gingko Bioworks aim to make crops produce their own nitrogen fertilizer (Forbes)
• Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's nomadic retiree army (Wired)
• Whole Foods is becoming Amazon's brick-and-mortar pricing lab (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Two ex-Googlers want to make bodegas and mom-and-pop stores obsolete (Fast Company)
• Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it's not really close (Quartz)
• Coffee vs. climate change: The news is not good (Ars Technica)
• Notice less candy around CVS cash registers? You're right (Marketplace)
• Reshaping business with artificial intelligence (MIT SMR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The case for investing more in people (HBR)
• A simple way to close the door on uncertain strategy (Globe and Mail)
• Robo-harvesters gather their first crop of barley (The Times)
• Digital advertising is facing its ultimate moment of truth (AdWeek)
• Nestle's growth supplements (Gadfly)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Building a strategic pricing organization (BCG)
• Nordstrom tries on a new look: Stores without merchandise (WSJ)
• The rise and fall of working from home (Bloomberg)
• As Amazon pushes forward with robots, workers find new roles (NYT)
• Target cuts prices on groceries and other consumables (Food Dive)