Best of Pax Westona: October 2017

• Gorilla mode: What Amazon means for the rest of us (Adventures)
• The race to save coffee (The Washington Post)
• Supersize farms are gobbling up American agriculture (WSJ)
• Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here's how that happened (Vox)
• Why surge pricing makes us so mad (The Upshot)
• Dollar General hits a gold mine in rural America (Bloomberg)
• Retailers are bottling their own milk (WSJ)
• How big consumer companies can fight back (BCG)
• US grocers count pennies as discounters wage price war (FT)
• Mayonnaise, disrupted (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Sears shoppers allege retailer inflated prices for liquidation sale (CBC)
• How to deal with the know-it-all in the office (HBR)
• The 'Amazon effect' is slicing into Bayer's U.S. consumer business (Bloomberg)
• The ultimate Halloween candy power ranking (538)
• The full reset (Collaborative Fund)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Retail's secret world is the private label (Gadfly)
• Six-second ads gaining popularity as brands battle short attention spans (Globe and Mail)
• The age of Amazon and Alibaba is just beginning (The Economist)
• Inside the anything-goes world of Instagram Fast Fashion (GQ)
• There's precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn't end well (Quartz)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Gorilla mode: What Amazon means for the rest of us (Adventures)
• This Macy's is a 'petri dish' for the brand (Racked)
• Selling products is good. Selling projects can be even better (HBR)
• Carrefour launches 'Merci Voisin' delivery service (ESM)
• Banks need to fear Amazon's finance ambitions (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Hudson Bay Company's Richard Baker speaks on his latest strategic move (BoF)
• Kindred robots are learning to grab and sort clothing in a warehouse at the Gap (MIT Technology Review)
• Big mall operator does the unthinkable - builds a mall (WSJ)
• The future of your entree is quietly growing in Memphis Meats' lab (Inc)
• The blockchain of food (Forbes)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• When are consumers most likely to feel overwhelmed by their options (Kellogg Insight)
• How climate change is playing havoc with olive oil (and farmers) (NYT)
• At Plated, the future of meal-kit services is grocery stores (Fast Company)
• Amazon rivals turn to fine print to stem Whole Foods strategy (Reuters)
• Halo Top melts market share away from Unilever (Food Dive)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• A showdown brews between Amazon and Alibaba, far from home (NYT)
• Global customer and channel management: What the best CPG companies do (McKinsey)
• The race to save coffee (The Washington Post)
• Supersize farms are gobbling up American agriculture (WSJ)
• Defensible strategies for food tech companies facing Amazon (Tech Crunch)