Best of Pax Westona: May 2018

• The life, death, and resurrection of the Canadian discount store (Buzzfeed)
• Corner Office: Bernardo Hees of Kraft Heinz (NYT)
• Why grocers need to start operating like consumer brands (BCG)
• Sobeys on the rebound: Is Michael Medline's strategy working (Globe and Mail)
• The spectacular power of Big Lens (The Guardian)
• The meaning of the Vision Fund (The Economist)
• How Costco's obsession with culture drove success (MIT)
• The Tim Hortons brand is badly broken. Here's how to fix it (Macleans)
• The economics of artificial intelligence (McKinsey)
• The problem with buying cheap stuff online (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Galen G. Weston on the future of food (Canadian Grocer)
• Food companies churn through CEOs, desperate for fresh ideas (WSJ)
• Unilever transformed its old office park into an ultra sustainable HQ (Fast Company)
• The one retailer Amazon can't seem to destroy is in cosmetics (Quartz)
• 30 minutes with Ulta's SVP of merchandising (Retail Dive)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• M&S boss turns to hi-fi entrepreneur to amp up profits (The Guardian)
• These are the classic American foods people are giving up (Quartz)
• The Proactiv dermatologists break the billion dollar barrier - again (Bloomberg)
• Simons acquires outside investment to help fund distribution centre (Globe and Mail)
• Pret a Manger, UK sandwich chain, is sold to food giant JAB (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The problem with buying cheap stuff online (The Atlantic)
• How do consumers choose in a world of automated ordering (HBR)
• Visa, Mastercard push for one-click ordering. retailers say 'Not so fast' (WSJ)
• Pepsico to acquire the fruit and veggie snack maker Bare Foods (NYT)
• Ocado, the tech startup you thought was a supermarket (The Economist)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• 14 secrets of Costco employees (Mental Floss)
• What's in P&G's products? You can now find out (WSJ)
• The tastes of summer, ranked (NYT)
• Microsoft gets visual food logging patent (The Spoon)
• Why our society's obsession with cleanliness has become too much of a good thing (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How the math men overthrew the mad men (The New Yorker)
• Has wine gone bad (The Guardian)
• Kroger buys meal kit company Home Chef in latest online acquisition (WSJ)
• Walmart has quietly launched Jetblack, a 'members-only' personal shopping service for affluent city moms (Recode)
• From the archives (2007): How successful leaders think (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Fashion's woman problem (NYT)
• Campbell's strategy comes under scrutiny after CEO departure (WSJ)
• How to eat candy like a Swedish person (The New Yorker)
• Wondering how customers feel about your brand (Kellogg Insight)
• The economics of artificial intelligence (McKinsey)