Stephan's Monday Picks

• When Sobeys met Safeway (Globe and Mail)
• Doubts about the promised bounty of genetically modified crops (NYT)
• The $100 million U.S. government fish farm nobody wants (Bloomberg)
• Attack of the cyber drones (Gadfly)
• How to improve online grocery: Learning from Kroger, Walmart (Forbes)
• These are Tesla's stunning new solar roof tiles for homes (Tech Crunch)
• Global consumers are no longer willing to pay full price for clothing (Quartz)
• Inside America's most sustainable supermarket (Food and Wine)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Why are department stores so scared of Halloween (Business of Fashion)
• Improv-da: How Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater (The Baffler)
• Frozen food comes in from the cold (Bloomberg)
• Grocers feel chill from millennials (WSJ)
• Whole Foods eyes millennials with meal delivery test (Fortune)
• U.S. retailers should pay attention to Lidl and Aldi's big problems in Ireland (Forbes)
• New technique may prevent the gruesome death of billions of male chicks (WaPo)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Coca-Cola is fighting to keep its sales from becoming a casualty of the sugar wars (Forbes)
• Blue Apron is on pace for more than $1 billion in sales as it preps for an IPO (recode)
• Heineken puts faith in its seasoned CEO to take on AB InBev Goliath (WSJ)
• Competition Bureau ramps up probe into Loblaw pricing practices (Globe and Mail)
• Use social influences to be a better manager (Stanford)
• One of retail's most recognizable logos and the Minneapolis PR man who created it (Adweek)
• Internal Amazon documents reveal a vision of up to 2,000 grocery stores across the US (Business Insider)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Shoppers Drug Mart formally applies to distribute medical marijuana (CBC)
• In Marlboro country, a big-money race for the new smoke (Bloomberg)
• What books inspired famous startup founders (Equities)
• Managing the bots that are managing the business (MIT SMR)
• Deal making preserves Coors clan as American beer dynasty (WSJ)
• Grocery e-tailer Satvacart attracts more angel investment (VC Circle)
• Uber self-driving truck packed with Budweiser makes first delivery in Colorado (Bloomberg)
• Online grocery shopping comes to Metro (CG)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Meet the billionaires of Thailand's Red Bull fortune (Bloomberg)
• Philly was the first major US city to pass a soda tax. The mayor has advice for others (Vox)
• One of the most popular fruit crops in the world could be decimated by disease (Business Insider)
• It's time to think about flowers like we do about produce (Wired)
• How an analytics mindset changes marketing culture (HBR)
• Walmart insider says 'heartbreaking' amount of food dumped in trash (CBC)
• Blue Apron's winding road to an IPO (PYMNTS)
• No, content isn't king (Gadfly)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The year ahead 2017: Retail (Bloomberg) 
• This is why you shouldn't believe that exciting new medical story (Vox)
• Push my buttons: Experiments in automated consumption (Economist)
• The many challenges of CPG and retail startups (Collaborative Fund)
• To Amazon and Wal-Mart, big data and small data are one and the same (Forbes)
• The weird economics of Ikea (fivethirtyeight)
• Watch out Wal-Mart. Amazon is coming after the grocery business (Bloomberg) 

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How 'Cage-Free' hens live (NYT)
• Why grocery stores are pushing packaged foods to the perimeter (Canadian Grocer)
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (WaPo)
• Tesco fires opening salvo at Sainsbury's in Christmas toy battle (Bloomberg)
• Aldi is fixing a major weakness and coming straight for Whole Foods (Business Insider)
• Alibaba launches 'Singles Day' promotions three weeks early (Retail Dive)