Stephan's Friday Picks

• Boston Dynamics has been using its robotic 'dog' to deliver packages in Boston (Recode)
• In retail, AR is for shoppers and VR is for business (Forbes)
• How discount grocery retailers prosper (Food Dive)
• Discount grocery store workers speak out against management, unions (CBC)
• Amazon extends growth streak, unfazed by lavish spending (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart's plan to trick people into saving money (The Atlantic)
• What is going on at Whole Foods (Eater)
• Instacart is taking its next move straight out of Amazon's playbook (Quartz)
• Coca Cola with fiber reveals soda revamp (Business Insider)
• Dole looks to return to stock markets, again (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How this grocer turns old food into new energy (Bostonomix)
• An activist investment in Whole Foods exposes shifting power on Wall Street (NYT)
• Metro profit beats estimates as cost controls offset lower prices (Globe and Mail)
• Costco to return $3.1 billion to investors with special dividend (Bloomberg)
• Deploy supply chain analytical platforms to build flexible solutions (Gartner)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Beauty and the e-commerce beast (AT Kearney)
• This sweater company is breaking a cashmere cartel (Bloomberg)
• Distortions and deceptions in strategic decisions (McKinsey)
• How to win a price war (MIT SMR)
• Staples, Payless, Bebe: Stores closing at an epic pace (CNN)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart's grocery price wars (Pymnts)
• Women and men now grocery shop regularly: Study (Progressive Grocer)
• Juice wars: Juicero has sued another juice maker for patent infringement (Ars Technica)
• Unilever buys Sir Kensington's, maker of fancy ketchup (NYT)
• How 7-Eleven will beat worker blues (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• A rare venture capitalist - female and retail-focused (NYT)
• Prescriptions for fresh produce, and other world-changing ideas in food (Fast Company)
• Canada's dairy cartel, the unkillable sacred cow made of other, literal cows (National Post)
• Meet the young founder of chewy.com, which PetSmart just bought for $3.35 billion (Inc)
• Consumer trust in social media 'influencers' drops (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How online shopping makes suckers of us all (The Atlantic)
• Loblaw sells chain of 213 gas stations to Brookfield for $540 million (CBC)
• Silicon Valley's $400 juicer may be feeling the squeeze (Bloomberg)
• Walmart's bargain bin e-commerce plan (Gadfly)
• Primark plans biggest expansion in decade as chain's sales soar (Bloomberg)