Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• In Japan, doing more with less means getting a robot to milk your cows (WSJ)
• Is the beauty industry Amazon-proof (FT)
• Alibaba's profit slips as it spends to expand the empire (NYT)
• No sticker shock ahead for Canadian grocery shoppers (Globe and Mail)
• The world's largest brewers have a new weapon: weak beer (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Older Americans are 'hooked' on vitamins (NYT)
• Nestle enters agreement for the perpetual global license of Starbucks consumer and foodservice products (Nestle)
• This amazing new milk is going to change everything (Mother Jones)
• Jana, Conagra end standstill as Pinnacle Foods comes under pressure to sell (Reuters)
• Mondelez gobbles up cookie maker Tate's Bake Shop (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why grocers need to start operating like consumer brands (BCG)
• The innovation turning desert sand into farmland (BBC)
• Walmart beats Amazon in $15 billion Flipkart battle (Bloomberg)
• Corner Office: Bernardo Hees of Kraft Heinz (NYT)
• Shake Shack's grand cashless experiment has failed (Eater)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• To reset operations, grocers should start with the customer (BCG)
• Amazon wants to know your waistline (WSJ)
• A fast-food problem: Where have all the teenagers gone (The Upshot)
• The life, death, and resurrection of the Canadian discount store (Buzzfeed)
• From the archives (1999): Walmart pays billions for British supermarket chain (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Amazon is taking over the world? Not in Europe (WSJ)
• The new food: Meet the startups racing to reinvent the meal (The Guardian)
• Build a reinvestment machine with zero-based budgeting (McKinsey)
• Vitamins are trendy. Vitamin stores aren't (Racked)
• Ocado's Scandi win can't hide its need for a buyer (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon bringing 3,000 new tech jobs to Vancouver (CBC)
• Retail's other problem: Too few clerks in the store (WSJ)
• Now on offer at the supermarket: Freshly squeezed suppliers (Bloomberg)
• How Ferrero Rocher chocolates became a status symbol for immigrants (Thrillist)
• As dairy goes global, more farmers turn to futures and options (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Sainsbury's vows to slash prices after Asda merger (The Guardian)
• 'Amazon effect' stings consumer staples stocks as pricing woes mount (WSJ)
• Rexall to shutter 40 stores as pharmacy market faces pressure (Globe and Mail)
• Everything you should and should not feel guilty about buying groceries online (Epicurious)
• Free shipping isn't hurting Amazon (The Atlantic)