Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A case for turning empty malls into housing (Bloomberg)
• Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer, closes stores (CNBC)
• Le Chateau warns there is 'significant doubt' it can stay in business (Globe and Mail)
• The lives upended over a $20 cheeseburger (Washington Post)
• The world of cheap food and its consequences (Times Literary Supplement)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Coffee, cocoa industries warn of child labour in desperate times (Bloomberg)
• How the pandemic is shaping consumption (WSJ)
• The pandemic is rewriting the rules of retail (HBR)
• Our cash-free future is getting closer (NYT)
• Uber getting into grocery delivery business in Canada (CBC)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The president of CVS Caremark on improving healthcare delivery (McKinsey)
• A thousand pork workers test positive at JBS plant in Brazil (Bloomberg)
• With department stores disappearing, malls could be next (NYT)
• Masks and makeup don't mix, so cosmetic fans seek permanent fix (WSJ)
• Fashion retailers confront shifts amid 'long, slow ramp' to a new normal (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How the pandemic changed the way we eat (The Guardian)
• Americans are stocking up on comfort foods (Food and Wine)
• The meltdown at the Museum of Ice Cream (Forbes)
• For Maine lobstermen, a perfect storm threatens their summer (NYT)
• Uber, Postmates, agree on $2.65 billion all-stock deal (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How a short seller's warning helped take down Luckin' Coffee (WSJ)
• Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks (Reuters)
• Why your grocery bill is about to go up (Financial Post)
• Couche-Tard quarterly revenue tops estimates, helped by panic buying (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2003): The Wal-Mart you don't know (Fast Company)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The real cost of Amazon (Vox)
• Uber makes offer to buy Postmates delivery service (NYT)
• Kim Kardashian West's beauty brand valued at $1 billion in deal with Coty (WSJ)
• Alberta Safeway workers vote in favour of strike after company ends 'hero pay' (CBC)
• Can self-serve food make a comeback when no one wants to touch anything (Financial Post)

Best of Pax Westona: June 2020

• Amazon's big breakdown (NYT)
• Wegmans pampered its shoppers. Now it has to protect them (WSJ)
• The sickness in our food supply (New York Review of Books)
• The end of minimalism (The Atlantic)
• How Tim Hortons knows where you live, work, and vacation (Financial Post)
• Redefining value and affordability in retail's next normal (McKinsey)
• How Canada failed migrant farm workers (Globe and Mail)
• The genius of supermarkets (The Atlantic)
• Our ghost-kitchen future (The New Yorker)
• Vegan Mexican food is taking Southern California by storm (LA Times)