Best of Pax Westona: August 2018

• The freshest ideas are in small grocery stores (NYT)
• Meet the kinder, gentler - and Canadian - face of Tim Hortons (CBC)
• The decline and fall of Diet Coke (The New Yorker)
• Nestle has a plan to bring customers back to 'Big Food' (Washington Post)
• How Dollar General took over rural America (The Guardian)
• Food halls are the new food truck (Eater)
• Amazon's ripple effect on grocery industry: Rivals stock up on start-ups (NYT)
• Beyond soda: How and why your beverage options are exploding (WSJ)
• Paul Singer, doomsday investor (The New Yorker)
• The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to the money (Recode)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to the money (Recode)
• Campbell Soup to sell international, fresh food units (Reuters)
• The long, monstrous reign of the Red Delicious apple is ending (NYT)
• Nestle wants your DNA to sell you supplements (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2001): Two CEOs dined, one got apple pie (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why adding more products isn't always the best way to grow (HBR) 
• JD turns to Google, Walmart to build global e-commerce empire (Bloomberg)
• Stadium food is suddenly getting cheaper (Eater)
• Whole Foods is starting to steal Trader Joe's shoppers (Bloomberg)
• With its new grocery concept, Meijer thinks big by scaling down (Food Dive)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• As Sears withers, its former stores fuel a new fortune (NYT)
• Dull skin? Restless sleep? There's a drink for that (WSJ)
• Here's the ugly truth behind the ugly produce movement (New Food Economy)
• The world's first self-driving grocery delivery cares are on the road in San Jose (Fast Company)
• Rising 'near me' searches show why grocers must improve their search engine rankings (Progressive Grocer)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Brands try to convince new generations products aren't just for their parents (NYT)
• Paul Singer, doomsday investor (The New Yorker)
• Beyond soda: How and why your beverage options are exploding (WSJ)
• What do you know, retailers are figuring it out (Bloomberg)
• Natural Grocers shrugs off Amazon-Whole Foods threat (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• What will the world eat in the next decade (Bloomberg)
• Taking agile beyond the tipping point (BCG)
• Kroger says it is phasing out its plastic bags (NPR)
• There's only one way to break into China's crowded retail market (HBR)
• How the coffee industry is building a sustainable supply chain in an unstable region (Kellogg Insight)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Online shopping is making us accumulate more junk (The Atlantic)
• China's consumption downgrade: Skip avocados, cocktails and kids (NYT)
• How analytics and digital will drive next-generation retail merchandising (McKinsey)
• Target posts its best quarterly results in more than a decade (WSJ)
• From the archives (2003): The card up their sleeve (The Guardian)