Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Stephan's Wednesday Picks
  • Supercharging retail sales through geospatial analytics (McKinsey)
  • The rise of coffee connoisseur culture (The New Yorker)
  • New York City goes to war against flushable wipes (Bloomberg)
  • The toxic truth about modern food (The Guardian)
  • Death by a thousand cuts: Where electronic health records went wrong (Fortune)

Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Stephan's Tuesday Picks
  • What is Amazon (Zach Kanter)
  • Millennials tried to kill it, but tinned fish is making a comeback (Bloomberg)
  • For food delivery fans, saving time is worth the cost (WSJ)
  • How chickpeas became so popular in America (The Atlantic)
  • Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart customers say they were forced to use self-checkout (CBC)

Monday, 18 March 2019

Stephan's Monday Picks
  • How Sears lost the American shopper (WSJ)
  • Amazon's private label odyssey (Retail Dive)
  • Big Coffee has a problem as craft roasters cut out the middleman (Bloomberg)
  • The LeBron factor: Who drives wine trends today (WSJ)
  • Under growing pressure, DoorDash asks drivers how to make things better (Fast Company)

Friday, 15 March 2019

Stephan's Friday Picks
  • How CPG companies can catch up as online sales take off (BCG)
  • Walmart's food delivery challenges: patchwork of drivers, tolls, crowded aisles (WSJ)
  • Why urban millennials love Uniqlo (The Atlantic)
  • EBay is the Un-Amazon, for better and worse (Bloomberg)
  • From the archives (2001): Ralston Purina finds new owner with Nestle (CBC)

Thursday, 14 March 2019

Stephan's Thursday Picks
  • Deep pockets alone can't save India's online grocery retailers (Quartz)
  • Do supermarkets know more about us than we do (BBC)
  • DoorDash bests GrubHub, UberEats in on-demand food delivery (Fortune)
  • Big Beauty taps black-owned startups' loyal customers (WSJ)
  • Meet the billionaire who defied Amazon and built Wish, the world's most downloaded e-commerce app (Forbes)

Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Stephan's Wednesday Picks
  • Malls and retailers look to co-working startups to fill vacant space (Globe and Mail)
  • Fast-growth chickens produce new industry woe: 'spaghetti meat' (WSJ)
  • Why US baby food sales are down (Quartz)
  • Tonight's dinner? In a cooler-sized robot that knows where you live (WSJ)
  • Social spin doctor: Kind Bar's Daniel Lubetzky builds a $1.5 billion fortune on do-gooder rhetoric (Forbes)

Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Stephan's Tuesday Picks
  • Why do we hate decaf so much (Vox)
  • Disruptive technology may change the whiskey industry (The Economist)
  • The oddly named energy bar that rocketed to the moon (Gastro Obscura)
  • The woes and wins of one man's first Seniors Day (Globe and Mail)
  • Why food delivery companies want to create super-users (WSJ)