Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• From G&T to Early Grey tea: a new wave of ice lollies for grownups (The Guardian)
• Brynwood Partners buys Pillsbury Doughboy from Smucker (Bloomberg)
• How a bacteria-detecting strip of plastic film could make best-before dates irrelevant (CBC)
• High-skilled white-collar work? Machines can do that too (NYT)
• Lidl USA: What went wrong and how it can recover (Forbes)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The secret price of pets (NYT)
• Inside the chaotic fancy food show, where grocery shops go to grocery shop (Bon Appetit)
• Robot grocery deliveries sound cool, but there are problems ahead (FT)
• How one couple turned grocery bagging into a fast growing business (LA Times)
• Waiter, there's a Bloody Mary in my chicken (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Inside JD.com, the giant Chinese firm that could eat Amazon alive (Wired)
• Tesco targets growing number of Britons who eat or dine alone (The Guardian)
• The cereal of the future misses the point of Dippin Dots (Washington Post)
• Bar by bar, Heineken battles AB InBev in Brazil (Reuters)
• Nestle sets sights on Edmonton's Champion Petfoods amid criticism from investors (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Deciem, the upstart Canadian skin care company aiming for global domination (CBC)
• A french fry gets soggy in 5 minutes. This company wants to keep it crispy for 60 (NYT)
• Amazon Go: The sequel (Geekwire)
• A toothpaste club? Colgate to invest in online subscription startup (WSJ)
• From the archives (2005): The interpreter (Fast Company)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The day Toys 'R' Us closed for good (NYT)
• Inside Target's top-secret test store (FastCo Design)
• Anti-pollution skin care is too expensive for the people most at risk (Racked)
• Why Amazon's push into prescription drugs isn't a guaranteed success (NYT)
• Why Amazon needs to do everything (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Modern apothecary (MIT Technology Review)
• Dollar stores are thriving - but are they ripping off poor people (The Guardian)
• Bezos's big blunder: Amazon's Alexa is getting clobbered (Axios)
• Delivering Amazon packages to the top of the world (NYT)
• Target, Walmart automate more store tasks (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Tesco and Carrefour to create long-term 'strategic partnership' (BBC)
• How Atul Gawande landed the most extraordinary job in health care (Stat)
• Amazon's delivery van network is a direct threat to UPS (Recode)
• Kroger is launching a fully driverless delivery service (The Verge)
• Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack for $1 billion (WSJ)