Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why kombucha may never make it really big (Bloomberg)
• Pioneering perspectives from online grocery (Winsight Grocery Business)
• The business value of design (McKinsey)
• The big lies of strategy (Rotman Management)
• Altria makes big controversial bets in search of growth (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why trendy cauliflower will dominate the entire grocery store (Fast Company)
• UPS is testing tricycle deliveries in traffic-choked Seattle (Wired)
• Amazon targets airports for checkout-free expansion (Reuters)
• Admit it Britain. You love your German grocers (Bloomberg)
• Walmart acquires Art.com to boost online home decor business (Reuters)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The inside story of how Deciem, the Abnormal Beauty Company, lived up to its name (Financial Post)
• Retailers are testing Facebook-style shopper profiles to battle Amazon (Bloomberg)
• What big consumer brands can do to compete in a digital economy (HBR)
• The AI that knows exactly what you want to eat (The Atlantic)
• From the archives (2016): How Americans pretend to love 'ethnic food' (Washington Post)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• What's really happening to retail (The Atlantic)
• Alibaba takes on Amazon in European cloud (WSJ)
• Sleep-tracking ring Oura surpasses $20 million in funding (Tech Crunch)
• Grocery stores are bars now (Vox)
• Eddie Lampert shattered Sears, sullied his reputation, and lost billions of dollars. Or did he (Institutional Investor)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Reviving the grocery industry: Six imperatives (McKinsey)
• The cookware startups that could topple the All-Clad establishment (Eater)
• The bizarre world of beauty advent calendars (The Guardian)
• Deriving value from conversations about your brand (MIT SMR)
• How subscription businesses are taking over (Fast Company)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How restaurants got so loud (The Atlantic)
• Why many Canadians don't love self-checkout (CBC)
• San Marzano tomatoes: The fake Rolex of canned foods (Taste)
• The trouble with tuna (WSJ)
• Sears bankruptcy 2018: Workers fight for severance pay (Vox)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Meet the saviour of Sobeys (The Globe and Mail)
• How wellness influencers made Indian food a trend (Bon Appetit)
• Slowly but surely, the Amazon Prime backlash is coming (Vox)
• Inside the hedge fund war at Sears (Bloomberg)
• Marriott hacking exposes data of up to 500 million guests (NYT)