Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Vanishing jobs and empty offices plague Britain's retailers (Bloomberg)
• Amazon receives U.S. regulatory approval to start drone delivery trials (Reuters)
• Knowledge workers are more productive from home (HBR)
• Beauty stocks face new reality amid Coronavirus pandemic (WSJ)
• A tenth of the world could go hungry as crops rot in the ground (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The Canadian consumer: Too big to fail (BCG)
• There's a reason parents miss back-to-school shopping (The Atlantic)
• Blue Apron's CEO talks about meal-kit company's Coronavirus revival (Bloomberg)
• Nestle moves further into health, buying peanut allergy treatment maker (WSJ)
• Convenience stores turn to home delivery to fight pandemic slump (Bloomberg)

 Best of Pax Westona: August 2020

• The collectors who spend thousands on rare Hot Wheels (The Hustle)
• Once the innovators, department stores fight to stay alive (WSJ)
• What always changes (Collaborative Fund)
• How the global crisis has changed Canadian's spending habits (Globe and Mail)
• The jollof wars (Eater)
• The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks (NYT)
• Avoiding the pitfalls of our same/different impulse (Medium)
• Equality in the U.S. starts with better jobs (HBR)
• Bias busters: lifting your head from the sand (McKinsey)
• Behold, workleisure (NYT)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Despite a pandemic, mega-mall developers bet on the American Dream (Globe and Mail)
• Reinventing retail with people analytics (McKinsey)
• Is this the end for America's mom-and-pop stores (FT)
• Target is having a pretty good pandemic (New York Magazine)
• Pair of entrepreneurs aim to refashion zombie retailers into online powerhouses (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft on Tik Tok bid (CNBC)
• The imperatives for automation success (McKinsey)
• Walmart and other grocers engage in a costly big squeeze (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA (Tech Crunch)
• From the archives (2015): The Greek-Canadian origins of the Hawaiian pizza (Gasto Obscura)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Tech talk with Loblaw Digital's Herman Paek (Canadian Grocer)
• Walmart's supermarket rivals are eating into its grocery share (Bloomberg)
• Unlocking the online retail opportunity with European farmers (McKinsey)
• Coronavirus is causing a can shortage (WSJ)
• How the U.K. restarted its restaurant industry: Paying half its bill (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Big-box stores, worried about Amazon, were ready for the Coronavirus (WSJ)
• Big grocers face more potential trouble as Dominion workers in Newfoundland strike (Financial Post)
• Provision says revenue has skyrocketed as food producers sign up for its new COVID-19 tracking software (Globe and Mail)
• Retail landlords offer pandemic clauses in new leases (WSJ)
• Where the produce includes pepperoni: The pizza farm (NYT)