Stephan's Thursday Picks

• What retail recovery? Malls under pressure as stores close (WSJ)
• Meal kits struggle to reach customers in supermarkets (Bloomberg)
• Walmart partners with subscription-based children's clothing startup Kidbox (Tech Crunch)
• The global diversity of french fry dips is a window into the way we eat today (Gastro Obscura)
• From the archives (2013): Canadian chocolate makers to pay $23.2 million fine in price-fixing lawsuit (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Inside Everlane's effort to remove new plastic from its supply chain (Fast Company)
• Department stores are dead? Nobody told Primark (Bloomberg)
• The coming obsolescence of animal meat (The Atlantic)
• 20 minutes with: Celebrated water sommelier Jessica Altieri (Barron's)
• Here's The Spoon's 2019 food robotics market map (The Spoon)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Rite Aid to stop selling e-cigarettes, citing surge in young users (NYT)
• 5G-connected cows test milking parlor of the future (Reuters)
• Inside the fake Amazon review complex (The Hustle)
• Best Buy, after turnaround, to switch leaders (WSJ)
• Fresh flour mills cater to consumers seeking whole, traceable baking ingredients (Financial Post)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Inside Shopify's vision of an e-commerce system to rival Amazon (Financial Post)
• Stop & Shop workers are on strike at over 240 stores in New England (NYT)
• What the grocery stores holding their own against Amazon are doing right (HBR)
• The nutrition study the $30B supplement industry doesn't want you to see (Ars Technica)
• Ulta Beauty's Canadian expansion plan adds more competition in crowded sector (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Jeff Bezos' 2018 Letter to Shareholders (Amazon)
• Wegmans tries its magic in NYC (Bloomberg)
• Walmart to refit 500 more stores in bid to lure online shoppers (FT)
• Campbell plans to sell fresh unit to former executive (WSJ)
• From the archives (1977): The flavor of General Foods (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The age of robot farmers (The New Yorker)
• Yogurt sales sour as options proliferate (WSJ)
• How did ice cream get so expensive (Eater)
• How to solve the plastic packaging paradox (BBC)
• Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Walmart rolls out the robots (WSJ)
• The oat milk shortage may soon be over (Bloomberg)
• The sweet success of the spiral-cut ham (NYT)
• Mexico's Walmart pressures suppliers on pricing, forcing some to ditch Amazon (Reuters)
• This invisible, protective coating on fruits and vegetables fights food waste (Fast Company)