Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• American retailers have a new target customer: 26-year-olds (WSJ)
• Jean-Francois van Boxmeer, Heineken's CEO, on its M&A strategy (FT) 
• GM apples that don't brown to hit US shelves this fall (MIT Technology Review)
• A battle for the future of big brands (WSJ)
• Walmart puts its eggs in a time-saving basket: Grocery pickup (NYT)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How AI will change strategy: A thought experiment (HBR)
• What's the biggest food delivery service in each US city (Recode)
• Another thing Amazon is disrupting: Business school recruiting (WSJ)
• Sears Canada moves closer to liquidation as Stranzl bid falters (Globe and Mail)
• Pepsi makes a bigger online bet after Amazon rattles grocery industry (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tesco profit overstatement prompted 'tears and resignations' (FT)
• Nestle can head off a fight with Dan Loeb (NYT)
• Dear Olive Garden, never change (Eater)
• Amazon is eyeing these grocery stores in France for possible deals (Fortune)
• Silicon Valley's next target for disruption is socks (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How grocers can learn from the UK as the industry undergoes a massive structural shift (Food Dive)
• Coca-Cola acquires Topo Chico, the sparkling water for cool people (Eater)
• Amazon promised to make Whole Foods cheaper. Let's see how that's going (Washington Post)
• Walmart has acquired the logistics startup Parcel to help launch same-day delivery in New York City (Recode)
• Albertsons to raise $720 million in store sale-leaseback (Supermarket News)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Mayonnaise, disrupted (The Atlantic)
• Can anyone beat Jeff Bezos (Vanity Fair)
• Turning strategy into results (MIT SMR)
• Being too busy for friends won't help your career (HBR)
• Metro seals deal for Jean Coutu to form Quebec powerhouse (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why Metro's 'inevitable' purchase of Jean Coutu took years to happen (CBC)
• Popcorn sales explosion makes it UK's fastest-growing grocery product (The Guardian)
• A field farmed only by drones (The New Yorker)
• Ikea enters gig economy by buying freelance labour firm TaskRabbit (The Guardian)
• Jet.com is launching a grocery brand for 'metro millennials (ReCode)

Best of Pax Westona: September 2017

• How Big Business got Brazil hooked on junk food (NYT)
• The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey (LinkedIn)
• The lonely future of buying stuff (Bloomberg)
• How grocery giant Aldi plans to conquer America: Limit choice (WSJ)
• Nestle makes billions bottling water it pays nearly nothing for (Bloomberg)
• The grocery industry confronts a new problem: Only 10% of Americans love cooking (HBR)
• Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's nomadic retiree army (Wired)
• Behind a $13 shirt, a $6-an-hour worker (Los Angeles Times)
• Is Unilever the last good big company (Bloomberg)
• Two ex-Googlers want to make bodegas and mom-and-pop stores obsolete (Fast Company)