Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• How the global crisis has changed Canadian's spending habits (Globe and Mail)
• The role of spend analytics in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Keurig Dr Pepper's data tracking helps in making financial forecasts (WSJ)
• Ferrero scion builds $3 billion side bet to Nutella fortune (Bloomberg)
• Amazon and mall operator look at turning Sears, J.C. Penney stores into fulfillment centres (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Sweatpants forever (NYT)
• The joy of sourcing (Grub Street)
• What always changes (Collaborative Fund)
• UPS plans hefty holiday fees amid shipment surge (WSJ)
• Gig workers for Target's delivery service say tipping glitches are cutting into pay (Washington Post)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Meet Gen Z: Shaping the future of shopping (McKinsey)
• How the coronavirus altered DTC's relationship with bricks & mortar (Retail Dive)
• The 2% solution: Inside billionaire Robert Smith's bold plan to funnel billions to Black-owned businesses (Forbes)
• Farmers and food groups call on government to regulate grocer fees (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2018): How pink salt took over millennial kitchens (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Once the innovators, department stores fight to stay alive (WSJ)
• Walmart has again delayed the launch of its Amazon Prime competitor Walmart+ (Vox)
• A record number of companies have filed for creditor protection (CBC)
• The bizarre fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade's parent company (Propublica)
• Padma Lakshmi wants us to eat more adventurously (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Instacart besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders (Bloomberg)
• The collectors who spend thousands on rare Hot Wheels (The Hustle)
• Nordstrom uses influencers to promote safety and draw anxious shoppers (NYT)
• How a cheese goes extinct (The New Yorker)
• Canadian farmers plant far more durum as COVID-19 pushes global demand (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• George Weston pursues ailing Swiss baking firm Aryzta (Bloomberg)
• Trader Joe's refutes claims of product name changes (Trader Joe's)
• DavidsTea to close 82 retail locations in Canada amid COVID-19 (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart is eliminating hundreds of corporate jobs (Bloomberg)
• Lord & Taylor files for bankruptcy as retail collapses pile up (NYT)

Best of Pax Westona: July 2020

• With department stores disappearing, malls could be next (NYT)
• The lives upended over a $20 cheeseburger (Washington Post)
• Can salad bars be saved (Bloomberg)
• Inside Uber's billion-dollar bet on Postmates (Fast Company)
• The All-American battle for your delivery dollars (WSJ)
• The promise and peril of virtual health care (The New Yorker)
• A framework for retail success in the next normal (McKinsey)
• Habits, COVID, and Strategy (Medium)
• Ben & Jerry's radical ice cream dreams (NYT)
• Rite Aid deployed facial recognition in hundreds of its stores (Reuters)