Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Everything on Amazon is Amazon (NYT)
• Sour Patch Kids cereal is real. Here's how to get it (Food & Wine)
• Beyond Meat files for an IPO (Bloomberg)
• Whole Foods reveals top food trends for 2019 (Whole Foods)
• Why America's best burger spot closed down (Thrillist)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How retail responds to disruption (MIT SMR)
• For better retail promotions, ask these questions (HBR)
• Walmart adopts virtual reality to train its workforce for Black Friday (Vox)
• Walmart's roar is getting loud enough to rattle Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Online shopping gets more complicate (WSJ)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Impossible Foods makes its plant-based 'blood' (Fast Company)
• Sears finalizing $350 million bankruptcy loan with Great American (Reuters)
• How clothing brands hooked men on stretch jeans (The Atlantic)
• Secrets of a Barneys personal shopper (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2012): How companies learn your secrets (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Pets or people: Big Food faces the same supermarket battle (WSJ)
• Amazon faces a challenge: German grocer Rewe's new warehouse (Bloomberg)
• Battle lines drawn in Sainsbury's-Asda probe (FT)
• Loblaw sees food prices rise, predicts further increases likely (The Globe and Mail)
• Ahold Delhaize strategy eyes Stop & Shop repositioning, doubling online sales (Winsight Grocery Business)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The war inside 7-Eleven (Bloomberg)
• Generation Z and its implications for companies (McKinsey)
• Diageo trades profit for growth (WSJ)
• 'Bleeding' vegan burger arrives on UK supermarket shelves (The Guardian)
• Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters (Amazon)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Pepsi expands LaCroix fight by putting sparkling water on campus (Bloomberg)
• Here's how Black Friday, Prime Day stack up against Singles Day (CNBC)
• For skincare brands, urban pollution is good for business (Quartz)
• The Instagrammers next door, plugging brands for peanuts (or shampoo) (NYT)
• Court pares back Tim Hortons franchisee lawsuit against parent company (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Alibaba's on-demand online services unit valued at $30 billion (Reuters)
• P&G moves to streamline its structure (WSJ)
• Galen Weston tops CEO poll despite bad news at his companies (Financial Post)
• Coca-Cola proposes energy drinks in clash with Monster Beverage (Reuters)
• The curse of the Honeycrisp apple (Bloomberg)