Best of Pax Westona: November 2018

• Rural America's favourite store is moving into the big city (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Raider on founding Warby Parker and Harry's (NYT)
• Pets or people: Big Food faces the same supermarket battle (WSJ)
• How Impossible Foods makes its plant-based 'blood' (Fast Company)
• How clothing brands hooked men on stretch jeans (The Atlantic)
• How restaurants use data to capture competitive advantage (BCG)
• How two young entrepreneurs used relentless online marketing to build Away into a $700M luggage brand (Forbes)
• Kohl's cracks the retail code (Fortune)
• How tech bros fell in love with baking bread (Eater)
• The state of fashion 2019 (McKinsey)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The state of fashion 2019 (McKinsey)
• Unilever names new CEO as big brands regroup, tackling consumer shift (WSJ)
• Urban grocery stores squeezing into tight spaces (The Globe and Mail)
• An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands (Recode)
• From the archives (2006): Junior faces the big test (Macleans)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How do you justify selling a $3 shirt (BBC)
• Celebrities like Kylie Jenner are upending the $52 billion beauty industry (WSJ)
• Unilever in exclusive talks to land GSK's Indian Horlicks business (Reuters)
• Hudson's Bay activist pushes for major change at retailer (The Globe and Mail)
• The Amazon warehouse comes to Soho (NYT)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How tech bros fell in love with baking bread (Eater)
• The death of the Montreal bagel (The Globe and Mail)
• Campbell Soup, Third Point settle proxy fight (WSJ)
• How to manage morale when a well-liked employee leaves (HBR)
• The monopolization of America (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Kohl's cracks the retail code (Fortune)
• Casper co-founder predicts the death of (bad) retail (WSJ)
• Agile to the rescue in retail (BCG)
• Don't let lazy managers drive away your top performers (HBR)
• How companies get you to pay more for the same product (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Beyond the list price (BCG)
• Walgreens, Humana are in preliminary stages of buying stakes in each other (WSJ)
• The art of woke wellness (The Atlantic)
• For a buck and sometimes a buzz, brewers are putting cannabis into cans (NYT)
• How two young entrepreneurs used relentless online marketing to build Away into a $700M luggage brand (Forbes)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Global payments 2018: Re-imagining the customer experience (BCG)
• Is Amazon primed to conquer Christmas again (Bain)
• KKR, Bain form $20M fund to pay Toys 'R' Us workers (Bloomberg)
• The neo-banks are finally having their moment (NYT)
• From the archives (2003): German discounter plans major Canadian expansion (The Globe and Mail)