Stephan's Monday Picks

• How Driscoll's reinvented the strawberry (The New Yorker)
• CIBC divorce from PC Financial shines light on bruised loyalty card industry (National Post)
• Electronic shelf edge labelling: Supermarkets step up tests (The Grocer)
• Tesco to sell tiny avocados in response to global supply shortage (The Guardian)
• Craft beer is transforming post-industrial neighbourhoods (CityLab)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Fast fashion slow to e-commerce (Business of Fashion)
• Stella Artois makes meal-kit entry in Canada (just-drinks)
• Amazon brings it to you (Robin Report)
• Jack Ma is ahead of Jeff Bezos in grocery store ambitions (Bloomberg)
• Target isn't winning the food fight (Gadfly)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• End of the checkout line: The looming crisis for American cashiers (The Guardian)
• Amazon's latest delivery estimate: 2 minutes (MIT Technology Review)
• How Thrive Market became the country's hottest online natural and organic market (Food Dive) 
• Sainsbury's puts Nisa takeover on hold over competition concerns (Reuters)
• The risks of a face full of yogurt (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Behind the hype of 'lab-grown' meat (Gizmodo)
• Amazon looks to new food technology for home delivery (Reuters)
• How department stores changed the way we shopped (BBC)
• Jana takes stake in Blue Apron (WSJ)
• Metro battles rising competition and minimum wage increases with e-commerce push (Financial Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The incredible shrinking Sears (NYT)
• Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands (Quartz)
• What brands are actually behind Trader Joe's snacks (Eater)
• Activist fund Corvex targets Danone (Bloomberg)
• How Kool-Aid has stayed so popular for so long (Ad Week)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• At Walmart Academy, training better managers, but with a better future? (NYT)
• Aldi enters grocery delivery in partnership with Instacart (Reuters)
• Americans discover the Orwellian beauty of No Name brand (Financial Post)
• Regional grocery stores feel the squeeze (WSJ)
• DIY artificial intelligence comes to a Japanese family farm (New Yorker)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• This Keurig-for-Froyo makes individual servings of frozen yogurt with no mess (Bloomberg)
• Loblaw CEO strikes back against claim of 'sabotage' on minimum-wage hike (Globe and Mail)
• How the 'battling' Kellogg brothers revolutionized American breakfast (NPR)
• Dairies' fix for souring milk: genetics and bananas (WSJ)
• Instagram is ruining food, and I might be the only one who cares (Boston Globe)