Stephan's Monday Picks

• How e-commerce with drone delivery is taking off in China (The Economist)
• A year after Amazon devours Whole Foods, rivals are pursuing countermoves (WSJ)
• America's largest private company reboots a 153-year old strategy (Bloomberg)
• HelloFresh jumps on bandwagon to sell meat kits in grocery stores (The Spoon)
• Why the frozen food aisle is hot right now (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Jessica Alba's Honest Company gets $200 million investment (WSJ)
• Toys 'R' Us didn't have to die (Bloomberg)
• What's the most (and least) popular flavor of La Croix (Priceonomics)
• The right way for food companies to buy their way to growth (WSJ)
• From the archives (2016): Leading and governing the customer-centric organization (McKinsey)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• JAB still craving deals despite Pret a Manger takeover (FT)
• Campbell Soup needs a rule-breaker CEO (Fast Company)
• Walmart's experimental Amazon Prime competitor aims for Alexa next (MIT Technology Review)
• Walmart sheds majority stake in Brazil operation (WSJ)
• How AI helped one retailer reach new customers (HBR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Unilever looks to be stepping up its beauty regime (FT)
• The UK plans to ban grocery stores from selling candy in checkout aisles (Quartz)
• How ketchup revolutionized how food is grown, processed and regulated (Smithsonian Mag)
• Food companies can't figure out what Americans want to eat (WSJ)
• What 20 years of Jeff Bezos's shareholder letters can teach you about becoming a top performer (Inc)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Alibaba made a driverless robot that runs 9mph to deliver packages (The Verve)
• Our food supply chain is killing us (The Outline)
• Walmart's war on waste (Canadian Grocer)
• HelloFresh to sell meal kits in Giant Food, Stop & Shop stores (WSJ)
• UK march of discounters Aldi and Lidl abating, say analysts (FT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How beauty companies price lipstick (Racked)
• Your next glass of wine might be a fake - and you'll love it (Wired)
• Breaking away: The secrets to scaling analytics (McKinsey)
• Coffee waste is now fetching a 480% premium over coffee itself (Bloomberg)
• Inside Tyson Foods' efforts to adopt the startup mentality (Food Dive)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends (KPCB)
• Walmart says it will pay for its workers to earn college degrees (NYT)
• Kroger puts its data science prowess to work for brands (Supermarket News)
• India's biggest competitors to Walmart and Amazon? Mom and pop (WSJ)
• From the archives (2016): Germany's intensely private and immensely wealth Reimann family (FT)