Stephan's Friday Picks

• How hunger and obesity coexist in America (Bloomberg)
• Instacart workers say the app manipulates them into low-paying deliveries (Eater)
• How NASA made Tang cool (Food & Wine)
• Nutrition: The missing piece of the corporate wellness puzzle (Forbes)
• From the archives (2014): The slow death of the microwave (Quartz)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Wall Street's great ice cream bailout (Bloomberg)
• Arby's has an answer to plant-based meat: A meat-based carrot (NYT)
• Looking for cookies in all the wrong places (Taste)
• Nestle creates new chocolate - with no added sugar (Bloomberg)
• McDonald's deal with DoorDash delivers blow to Uber Eats (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The business of the body (The Economist)
• Amazon Prime Day brings sales, and risks for retailers (NYT)
• IKEA to close its only US factory (WSJ)
• AI drug hunters could give Big Pharma a run for its money (Bloomberg)
• Why companies like Ocado produce gobbledegook (FT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How did protein bars become so popular (Topic)
• The seltzer bubble (NYT)
• Budweiser APAC IPO hit by investor pushback (Reuters)
• Beauty brands focus on women of colour (WSJ)
• Barney's New York explores options which include bankruptcy (Reuters)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon's latest experiment: Retraining its workforce (NYT)
• Postmates has explored a sale to Uber or DoorDash instead of going public (Vox)
• Why Americans just can't quit their microwaves (The Atlantic)
• Plant-based dairy has a new competitor in flora-based foods (Quartz)
• Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads (The Verge)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Walmart got a $10 billion surprise after it bought Flipkart (Bloomberg)
• The decline of Dean & Deluca: Why premium grocers are biting the dust (Washington Post)
• Inside Greycroft's VC playbook for investing in the grocery industry (Digiday)
• A vegetable startup wants to raise at least $500 million (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2005): How Costco became the anti-Wal-Mart (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Impossible Foods is introducing a (fish-less) fish product (NYT)
• Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice (BBC)
• World's coffee farmers seek to set minimum price to help poor farmers (WSJ)
• Amazon workers in Minnesota plan to strike on Prime Day over labor practices (Tech Crunch)
• Alibaba has claimed a new record in AI language understanding (MIT Technology Review)