Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How Asian-American farmers shape what America eats (Eater)
• Amazon Go faces unlikely challenge from checkout-free startup (Bloomberg)
• Staples steps into the future (Gartner L2)
• Amazon wants you to use Alexa to track health care (WSJ)
• Starboard backs down from proxy battle at Dollar Tree (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The promise of targeted innovation (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• When Canadians were first introduced to No Name products (CBC)
• What health kick? Young Americans still thirst for alcopops (WSJ)
• The great sriracha battle is coming to America (Bloomberg)
• The outlandish success of Ollie's: A $5 billion retail empire that sells nothing online (Forbes)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• P&G faces backlash over diaper, sanitary waste (WSJ)
• Inside the Trader Joe's black market resale economy (Refinery29)
• Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn't know existed (Ars Technica)
• Machine learning is making pesto even more delicious (MIT Technology Review)
• From the archives (2011): No Frills: The Atlantic strategy (Canadian Grocer)

Stephan's Thursday

• Sears went into bankruptcy - but its lavish rewards program won't quit (WSJ)
• Inside IKEA's lavish laboratory of foods (Gastro Obscura)
• Eating meat will be considered unthinkable 20 years from now (Vox)
• The Australian store where everything sold must be sent to China (Bloomberg)
• What every CEO needs to know about 'superstar' companies (McKinsey)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Creating better strategy: Why empathy matters (Knowledge@Wharton)
• Behold the beefless 'Impossible Whopper (NYT)
• Fresh deli cuts muscle out packaged meats (WSJ)
• Millennials are sick of drinking (The Atlantic)
• Nestle plans meat-free Incredible Burger in race against Burger King (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Fast times and fast delivery at today's high schools (WSJ)
• The enormous numbers behind Amazon's market reach (Bloomberg)
• Why the USDA hired artists to paint thousands of fruit (Gastro Obscura)
• Subway closings accelerate as cold cuts fail to draw in diners (Bloomberg)
• Why millions of dollars in federal grocery subsidies haven't lessened food insecurity in the North (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Meituan and Alibaba have reshaped food delivery in China (Bloomberg)
• Food Lion, other grocers will use AI for food suppliers (WSJ)
• Why self-checkout is and has always been the worst (Gizmodo)
• Are you ready to change your target customer (HBR)
• Can the world quench China's bottomless thirst for milk (The Guardian)