Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Ocado unveils tie-up with France's Groupe Casino (FT)
• Ocado found a grocery deal, not the second coming (Gadfly)
• Retail jobs don't need to be bad. Here's proof (NYT)
• Produce or else: Walmart and Kroger get tough with suppliers on delays (WSJ)
• How chefs go from restaurant kitchen to grocery store brand (Eater)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• This robot picks up groceries its never seen before using its little suction cup (MIT Technology Review)
• Tesco's CEO is ready for his Unilever closeup (Bloomberg)
• Unilever delays choice of UK or Netherlands as sole HQ (FT)
• Predicting success in consumer startup brands (Tech Crunch)
• How closing grocery stores perpetuate food deserts long after they're gone (Fast Company)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Food banks' massive plan to shift from canned goods to fresh produce (Fast Company)
• Amazon, in hunt for lower prices, recruits Indian merchants (NYT)
• Coca-Cola embraces a digital future as consumers move online (Food Dive)
• Unilever acquires U.S. personal care company Sundial Brands (Bloomberg)
• How the sandwich consumed Britain (The Guardian)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The future of retail in the age of Amazon (Fast Company)
• Why stand in line on Black Friday? The psychology explained (NYT)
• How La Croix's growth surprise Coca-Cola and PepsiCo (Brand Channel)
• Sobeys to lay off 800 workers across Canada (CBC)
• Conquering the food challenge through Agriculture 3.0 (Bain)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• CEOs should stop thinking that execution is somebody else's job. It's theirs (HBR)
• Alibaba's latest jab at JD.com (L2)
• Why Maryland's blue crab industry might be in trouble (Eater)
• Young and in love ... with lipstick and eyeliner (NYT)
• The future of shopping at Nordstrom and Walmart is home delivery (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Sugar industry long downplayed potential harms (NYT)
• Loblaw releases second annual Canadian food trends list (Loblaw)
• Nestle's baby food diet (Bloomberg)
• Walmart is inventing foods in a secret lab in Arkansas (Food and Wine)
• Auchan/Alibaba deal turns up the heat on Carrefour in China (Reuters)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Tofurky: A brief, semi-accidental history of Thanksgiving's fake meat (The New Yorker)
• The rise of dynamic and personalized pricing (The Guardian)
• Grocers need to look to new forecasting methods to stock the digital shelf (Food Dive)
• P&G just bought this venture-backed deodorant startup for $100 million (Tech Crunch)
• Becoming (and remaining) a farmer is hard (Civil Eats)