Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why Whole Foods hasn't satisfied Amazon's grocery appetite (NYT)
• Sweetgreen, pointing to its own past, hatches new model (WSJ)
• Uber talks with European supermarkets about grocery delivery (Bloomberg)
• Why we need Trader Joe's YouTube channel now more than ever (Fast Company)
• Takeaway and Just Eat to merge in $10B deal to take on Uber Eats and Deliveroo in Europe (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon's revolutionary retail strategy? Recycling old ideas (Wired)
• Why millennials love canned cocktails (The Atlantic)
• The convenience store, re-imagined (CBC)
• Store brands cut into Big Food (WSJ)
• Ice cream sales soar as Britons continue their love affair with cool (The Guardian)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Are Oreos part of a mindful diet? Snack makers promote chewing thoughtfully (WSJ)
• How our global food system wastes 46 million tonnes of fish every year (Hakai Magazine)
• In major switch, DoorDash announces that tips will now go to workers (Fast Company)
• How Etsy crafted an e-commerce comeback (Fortune)
• From the archives (2016): Failure to lunch (NYT Magazine)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Contact lens startup, big on social media, may be bad on eyes, doctors say (NYT)
• Kroger goes full robot to take on Amazon with Ocado (Bloomberg)
• Consumers turn from diapers and detergent to eye rollers and jelly masks (WSJ)
• Amazon's rise to power has been great for consumers. But has it gotten too big (Vox)
• How billion dollar 'unicorns' are changing the beauty industry (Vogue)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The next level of personalization in retail (BCG)
• Japan's convenience store woman has lessons for retail tech (Nikkei Asian Review)
• The problem with America's protein diet obsession (Quartz)
• Walmart deepens store-digital integration as web unit struggles (Bloomberg)
• With so many vacant stores, e-commerce is only part of the problem (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The rise and fall of French cuisine (The Guardian)
• Amazon warns customers: Those supplements might be fake (Wired)
• Court filings say corporations fed opioid epidemic (NYT)
• A prescription for pain at the American drugstore chain (WSJ)
• Muji's minimalist aesthetic is too easy to knock off (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon's most ambitious research project is a convenience store (Bloomberg)
• Cosmic Crisp apple launch (California Sunday Magazine)
• 10 technologies that could combat climate change as food demand soars (MIT TR)
• Amazon offers sellers a leg up, with a catch (WSJ)
• My frantic life as a cab-dodging, tip-chasing food app deliveryman (NYT)