Stephan's Monday Picks

• Grocery stores are adapting to more male shoppers - who they treat like knuckleheads (Washington Post)
• Lidl and Aldi want to be your new supermarket (Texas Monthly)
• What it's like to be a downtown food delivery cyclist (Toronto Star)
• P&G cuts more than $100 million in 'largely ineffective' digital adds (WSJ)
• Demand for exotic Kit Kats is so high that Nestle is building a new plant (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Food tech and media landscape 2017 (Forbes)
• Save-On-Foods to carry Tesco private label products (CG)
• Amazon reports 25% sales growth (Gadfly)
• Starbucks to shutter all Teavana stores as sales disappoint (NYT)
• Is kohlrabi the next kale (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Inside Hampton Creek's empty boardroom (Bloomberg)
• Even Campbell Soup is taking a page from Amazon (Quartz)
• Help wanted: Amazon to host job fair for 50,000 positions amid hiring squeeze (WSJ)
• Who wants to run that mom and pop shop? Almost no one (NYT)
• Loblaw taking stock of 'very compelling threat' of Amazon: CEO (Financial Post)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Southern hospitality: Will Publix's service-first approach continue to pay off (Food Dive)
• Next leap for robots: Picking out and boxing your online order (WSJ)
• AI may soon replace even the most elite consultants (HBR)
• Cott selling traditional beverage business to Refresco for $1.25 billion (CG)
• Blue Apron shakes up executives less than a month after IPO (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Albertsons CEO on his life, work, stores, and Amazon (Idaho Statesman)
• A needless distraction for Walmart (Gadfly)
• Your brands best strategy (HBR)
• Tesco to extend same-day home delivery across the UK (The Guardian)
• Vegan ice cream enters a golden age (NYT)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Want to see the future of U.S. online grocery? Look to France (Kantar)
• Walmart, Amazon rivalry extends to forklifts (WSJ)
• Sephora is experimenting with a boutique concept to prepare for the upcoming retail apocalypse (Fast Company)
• Betting on things that never change (Collaborative Fund)
• What do we really want (Stanford)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Whole Foods investor cashes out after merger demands were fulfilled (NYT)
• The mad cheese scientists fighting to save the dairy industry (Bloomberg)
• Sears to sell Kenmore appliances on Amazon, shares jump (Globe and Mail)
• French's deal sets up epic mustard battle (Bloomberg)
• Why the grim reaper of retail hasn't come to claim Best Buy (Los Angeles Times)