Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How a tweet led to a shortage at Popeyes (NYT)
• The war on sugar hits the juice box (WSJ)
• Rose berries have arrived (The New Yorker)
• Meat companies aren't worried about demand amid vegan burger boom (Bloomberg)
• Retailers struggled during boom times. What happens if there's a recession (WP)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• India's restaurants rebel against food delivery apps (NYT)
• Walmart's robot army has arrived (Fast Company)
• Service jobs should be - and can be - middle-class jobs (HBR)
• The cost of next-day delivery (BuzzFeed)
• What the food movement misses about poverty and inequality (The Breakthrough)

Best of Pax Westona: August 2019

• Big Alcohol's pursuit to make weed beverages (The Verge)
• Auchan China's chairman on the future of grocery (McKinsey)
• Why meal delivery companies are everywhere (The Atlantic)
• The rise of the virtual restaurant (NYT)
• The Californication of American restaurants (Eater)
• How Target managed a big box turnaround (Fortune)
• The Popeyes chicken sandwich is here to save America (The New Yorker)
• LaCroix won the bubble battle, but it's losing the sparkling water war (Bloomberg)
• The inside story of the fall of Overstock's mad king (Forbes)
• Why are products for older people so ugly (MIT Technology Review)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Amazon's shipping empire is challenging UPS and FedEx (WSJ)
• Forever 21 is said to prepare potential bankruptcy filing (Bloomberg)
• He ran an empire of soup and mayonnaise. Now he wants to reinvent capitalism (NYT)
• Hudson's Bay selling Lord & Taylor banner amid privatization battle (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2005): Metro in deal to buy A&P Canada for $1.7B (CBC)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why are products for older people so ugly (MIT Technology Review)
• What sandwich war? KFC sells out of plant-based chicken in Atlanta (NYT)
• Spanish delivery app targets supermarkets as consolidation looms (Bloomberg)
• Falling tobacco demand spurs Philip Morris, Altria to talk merger (WSJ)
• Why complexity sells (Collaborative Fund)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Here are the crazy pictures from Costco's opening day in China (Quartz)
• J&J ordered to pay $572 million in landmark opioid trial (NYT)
• Pets can't save struggling food makers (WSJ)
• Kraft Heinz' CEO Patricio's premiumization plan will face challenges (Chicago Business)
• A war between Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods and cattle ranchers draws in veggie burgers and Tofurkey (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday's Picks

• What Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop really sells to women (The Atlantic)
• A tooth-straightening startup runs into resistance (Bloomberg)
• It's not always excellent to be Jamie Oliver (NYT)
• Getting sharp on omnichannel shoppers in apparel (McKinsey)
• White Claw craze: Why the canned drink is a US summer obsession (The Guardian)