Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The failure of the Forever 21 empire (Bloomberg)
• The 100-year-old unstoppable restauranteur (Food & Wine)
• Milk was an American staple. Now the industry is in trouble (Time)
• Cash, plastic or hand? Amazon envisions paying with a wave (WSJ)
• MEC's next steps: How the outdoor and sports retailer plans to stay in the race (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Thai tycoons may find Tesco is closed (Bloomberg)
• The advance of cultured meat (The Guardian)
• Farewell to the Sobeys bag (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon Prime's numbers (and influence) continue to grow (Fortune)
• Walmart opened a meatpacking plant. What does it mean for the beef industry (New Food Economy)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Stores must now tell you how they're tracking your every move (Wired)
• A bad time to be average (BCG)
• E-commerce and consumers. Can retailers meet rising demands (Knowledge@Wharton)
• Gap backs away from plan to spin off Old Navy (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2006): Wal-Mart finds that its formula doesn't fit every culture (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• America's favourite poison (The Atlantic)
• The crisp flavours went from simple to sensational (The Guardian)
• Top consumer trends for 2020 (WSJ)
• Plastic to go containers are bad. But are the alternatives any better (Civil Eats)
• Just about every store at the mall is struggling. Then there's Bath & Body Works (WP)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Amazon publishes books by top authors, and rivals fret (WSJ)
• Away CEO is back, just weeks after stepping down (NYT)
• Walmart expands its robotic workforce to 650 additional stores (Bloomberg)
• America drank less wine for first time in 25 years (WSJ)
• Albertsons prepares for an IPO, again (WSJ)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How a Wisconsin farmer became the big cheese (WSJ)
• Cashmere country: The perils of making the world's finest fabric (The Guardian)
• The midlife crisis of the American Restaurant Review (LA Review of Books)
• Global food prices jump to five-year high (Bloomberg)
• Pure growth from natural products (BCG)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Why we're approaching peak meat in America (The Atlantic)
• The power of algorithmic forecasting (BCG)
• The secret life of the supermarket shopper (Stanford GSB)
• Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal's $4 billion acquisition (Wired)
• A survival guide to Eataly (Toronto Life)