Best of Pax Westona: March 2018

• The 101 dishes that changed America (Thrillist)
• Inside the strange odyssey of hedge fund king Eddie Lampert (Vanity Fair)
• Grocery wars turn small chains into battleground casualties (NYT)
• They myth of authenticity is killing Tex-Mex (Eater)
• Can't stop, won't stop: Eating a whole pint of ice cream is OK now (WSJ)
• The secretive company that pours America's coffee (WSJ)
• Grocery retailing, reimagined (Bain)
• Yes, bacon really is killing you (The Guardian)
• Consumer goods: Big brands battle with the 'little guys' (FT)
• What might the Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan health care venture actually do (25iq)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How to make work better (NYT)
• Walmart beat Amazon and Netflix to video on demand but still lost (Bloomberg)
• H&M, a fashion giant, has a problem: $4.3B in unsold clothes (NYT)
• 'It just went mad' - Meet the people behind the popcorn boom (The Guardian)
• From the archives (1998): Loblaw agrees to purchase Provigo for $897.5 million in cash and stock (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• To invade homes, tech is trying to get into your kitchen (NYT)
• The 101 dishes that changed America (Thrillist)
• Amazon: The making of a giant (WSJ)
• Amazon gains French beachhead in deal with Casino's Monoprix (Bloomberg)
• Hello Fresh is now bigger than Blue Apron in the U.S. (Recode)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Inside the strange odyssey of hedge fund king Eddie Lampert (Vanity Fair)
• Grocery wars turn small chains into battleground casualties (NYT)
• Maker of Sharpies drew the line on trade promotions - and paid in lost sales (WSJ)
• Carrefour calls on Google for voice boost in battle with Amazon (Reuters)
• Do people really get promoted to their level of incompetence (HBR)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The store is dead. Long live the store (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• American adults just keep getting fatter (NYT)
• A place to be seen (L2)
• Old school retailer Simons keeps faith in beautiful stores in age of Amazon (Financial Post)
• From Buzzfeed to Improbable, this is the startup that feeds startups (Wired)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Bag end: Why we're calling time on plastic waste (The Guardian)
• How to build a consumer brand (The Collaborative Fund)
• Nordstrom soldiers on as public company as buyout deal fizzles (Bloomberg)
• How one investor made a fortune picking over the retail apocalypse (WSJ)
• From the archives (2015): The AWS IPO (Stratchery)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• What opening a nonprofit grocery taught the former president of Trader Joe's (MIT)
• Costco eyes fresh delivery in Canada (Financial Post)
• Online groceries are having their moment (Gadfly)
• Hydroponic produce is blooming in Churchill (CBC)
• The Red Delicious is an apple atrocity. Why are we growing millions of them (New Food Economy)