Best of Pax Westona: February 2018

• Amazon built its hyper efficient warehouses by embracing chaos (Quartz)
• Making sense vs. being right (Collaborative Fund)
• Kraft Heinz made its factories really efficient. Now it has to sell bologna (WSJ)
• Use big data to give local shoppers what they want (BCG)
• Thinking inside the subscription box (McKinsey)
• Why dominating your category can be a flawed strategy (HBR)
• The Amazon-ification of Whole Foods (The Atlantic)
• Tesco 'planning' on discount chain  to take on Aldi and Lidl (The Guardian)
• PepsiCo dips its toes into the sparkling water market (NYT)
• The dark art of stealing from self-checkouts (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• What H-E-B's acquisition of Favor means for both companies (Texas Monthly)
• Why AI researchers at Google got desks next to their boss (NYT)
• Amazon plans to open at least six new Amazon Go locations this year (Recode)
• What explains our mania for avocados (WSJ)
• Hummus isn't meant to be a dip. Why do Americans treat is as one (Quartz)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Metrolinx, Loblaw to pilot grocery-pickup service at Go Transit stations (Globe and Mail)
• Amazon built its hyper efficient warehouses by embracing chaos (Quartz)
• General Mills pays steep price to get into high growth business (Bloomberg)
• Pink lettuce is the photo-friendly vegetable flooding feeds right now (Eater)
• Big Food faces pressure as consumers seek fresh meals, snacks (WSJ)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Warren Buffet's 2017 letter to shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway)
• Making sense vs. being right (Collaborative Fund)
• Big companies are embracing analytics, but most still don't have a data-driven culture (HBR)
• Would delivery drones be all that efficient? Depends where you live (Wired)
• The enemy of Amazon is my friend (Gadfly)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Early bird specials in South Florida are dying, thanks to baby boomers (Eater)
• Alibaba is using artificial intelligence to help raise pigs (Quartz)
• Will Amazon Go capture the holy grail of retail (Knowledge@Wharton)
• H-E-B acquires Texas-based on-demand company Favor (Tech Crunch)
• From the archives (1999): End of an empire: The overview; RJR Nabisco splits tobacco ventures and food business (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Kraft Heinz made its factories really efficient. Now it has to sell bologna (WSJ)
• Amazon becomes PR genius, for good or ill (Bloomberg)
• Sam's Club makes e-commerce push with Amazon Prime competitor (NYT)
• Danone to sell stake in Japan's Yakult for $1.8 billion (Bloomberg)
• Nestle CEO Schneider seeks deals as sales growth sputters (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Sears Canada creditors zero in on Lampert payments (WSJ)
• Use big data to give local shoppers what they want (BCG)
• Why competitive advantages die (Collaborative Fund)
• How one cargo ship delay sends ripples through Alaska's food supply chain (Anchorage Daily News)
• Unilever threatens to reduce ad spending on tech platforms that don't combat divisive content (WSJ)