Best of Pax Westona: December 2018

• Meet the saviour of Sobeys (The Globe and Mail)
• San Marzano tomatoes: The fake Rolex of canned foods (Taste)
• Reviving the grocery industry: Six imperatives (McKinsey)
• What's really happening to retail (The Atlantic)
• Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it a secret (NYT)
• Why does Texas love H-E-B so much (Eater)
• Gillette used to rule razors. Then came Harry's and Dollar Shave Club (Vox)
• J&J knew for years that asbestos lurked in its baby powder (Reuters)
• The dollar store backlash has begun (City Lab)
• The future of retail: Asia's ecosystems (Bain)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Department store of the future: Selling art off the wall and car insurance at checkout (WSJ)
• Will Amazon finally kill New York (Longreads)
• Blue Apron links with dieters in comeback effort (WSJ)
• India curbs power of Amazon and Walmart and Walmart to sell products online (NYT)
• Literally every single food trend predicted to take over in 2019 (Eater)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The future of retail: Asia's ecosystems (Bain)
• Hot mess in home goods has lessons for retailers (Bloomberg)
• Hudson's Bay CEO working hard and fast on fixing the fundamentals (Globe and Mail)
• Lab grown meat is coming, whether you like it or not (Wired)
• From the archives (2009): Applying design thinking to your business (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Last minute shoppers increasingly trust only Amazon to deliver (NYT)
• Forget drones, Amazon needs lots of delivery humans (Bloomberg)
• Even pharmacies need physical locations (L2)
• Aldi Nord occurs loss for the first time in Germany (Retail Detail)
• Why it's hard to escape Amazon's long reach (Wired)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The dollar store backlash has begun (City Lab)
• Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon marketplace (The Verge)
• Juul closes deal with tobacco giant Altria (NYT)
• Cigna closes $54 billion purchase of Express Scripts (Reuters)
• Amazon's grocery push keeps stumbling after Whole Foods purchase (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• With a pinch of innovation, food makers raise prices (WSJ)
• Amazon flexes its muscle on private label (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Prime 2-day shipping doesn't ship for Christmas (Fast Company)
• Altria is nearing a deal to take a 35% stake in Juul (WSJ)
• From the archives (2011): Weston supremacy (FT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The high price of efficiency (HBR)
• The rise of anxiety baking (The Atlantic)
• The Amazon HQ2 document we weren't supposed to see (NYT)
• Kroger-owned grocery store begins fully driverless deliveries (Ars Technica)
• Pfizer, Glaxo to create an over-the-counter drug giant (WSJ)