Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When there are no more fish (Eater)
• To end a food desert, these community members opened their own grocery (Fast Company)
• Rhone Capital battles Ferrero and Hershey for Nestle's US candy business (FT)
• Will cosmetics get an Amazon makeover (Bloomberg)
• If you think grocery stores are playing tricks on you, they really are (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Outfoxed by small-batch upstarts, Unilever decides to imitate them (WSJ)
• The Germans are escalating America's grocery price war (Bloomberg)
• Whole Foods places new limits on suppliers, upsetting some small vendors (Washington Post)
• The world's largest clothing maker isn't betting on automation replacing cheap human labour (Quartz)
• Once-hungry investors pass on meal-kit startups (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Rotisserie chickens: The '90s gift to supermarkets that keeps on giving (WSJ)
• Six artifacts from the future of food (Fast Company)
• Germany's largest chicken producer wants to bring clean meat to market (Quartz)
• In ice-cream war, upstarts grab freezer space from Ben & Jerry's (Bloomberg)
• Even before the latest minimum-wage meltdown, Tim Hortons was a brand in crisis (Toronto Star)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Navigating the uncanny world of food (Wired)
• What the big mergers of 2017 tell us about 2018 (HBR)
• Activists' guide to 2018: The best defense is a good offense (NYT)
• The food revolution may have just needed a cup of Blue Bottle (Tech Crunch)
• From the archives (2006): Once infallible - what happened at Loblaw (Globe and Mail) 

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon Alexa is opening up to more sponsored product ads (CNBC)
• In 2018, Amazon will turn to private label goods (Digiday)
• Houston's not eating that well. Can a new mobile grocery help (Houston Chronicle)
• Aldi racks up more than 200 private label awards (Food Dive)
• Dairies are awash in organic milk as consumers jump to alternatives (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Heinz's decades-long attempt to convince Australians that ketchup is awesome (Atlas Obscura)
• Sears stopped buying national TV ads in critical holiday season (WSJ)
• Consumers getting hot for smart thermostats (Bloomberg)
• 5 brands using Facebook Messenger to drive engagement (CMO)
• Oil's dream to grow in plastics dims as Coke turns to plants (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• What happened in consumer in 2017 (Collaborative Fund)
• Bargain-hunters view retail employees as less human: study (CBC)
• Unfiltered fervor: The rush to get off the water grid (NYT)
• The limits of Amazon (WSJ)
• Somewhere between a food truck and a food tent, you'll find a cubert (NYT)