Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Walmart is said to explore options for Asda including IPO (Bloomberg)
• CVS is opening hundreds of SmileDirectClub shops in its stores (CNBC)
• Walmart to develop its own supply chain for Angus beef (WSJ)
• Walgreens is latest to raise smoking (and vaping) age to 21 (NYT)
• Plant based eating goes mainstream as Beyond Meat targets Canadian grocery shelves (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Beyond Meat details plans for initial public offering (NYT)
• America's biggest supermarket company struggles with online grocery upheaval (WSJ)
• How Sainsbury's Project Solar crashed down to earth (Bloomberg)
• Kraft Heinz taps new CEO, AB InBev's Miguel Patricio (CNBC)
• Lululemon plans to double men's business, expand internationally under new boss (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The cult Japanese retailer making billions by breaking the rules (Bloomberg)
• We now live in a world with customized shampoo (WSJ)
• Amazon, facing entrenched rivals, to shut China online store (Reuters)
• To woo shoppers, stores are accepting competitors' returns (WSJ)
• From the archives (1966): Great man with his groceries (Maclean's)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Meet the woman behind Amazon's explosive growth (Fast Company)
• Agile is not enough (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• Mapping the US gastronomic borders (The Pudding)
• Jack Ma again endorses extreme overtime as furor rages on (Bloomberg)
• Oh we don't sell food at this restaurant, we purvey provisions (McSweeney's)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Investing in retailer's most important assets (Bain)
• How a Long Island chef became a certified snail farmer (NYT)
• Retailer Fred's hires adviser as it tries to turn around business (WSJ)
• Agile in the consumer goods industry (McKinsey)
• Why you can't buy Pakistani flu remedy Johar Joshanda tea in the U.S. (Eater)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why is Wegman's so great? Inside America's favourite grocery store (Bloomberg)
• Big Brother at the mall (WSJ)
• Personal chefs for everyone. Bespoke house calls in the digital age (NYT)
• New rules for M&A in consumer products (Bain)
• With a new CEO and new funding from Upfront, healthy prepared food delivery company service Territory looks to grow (Tech Crunch)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Booze dynasties control $70 billion of world's liquor wealth (Bloomberg)
• The ever-changing store (McKinsey)
• Consumer products: Now's the time to double down on China (Bain)
• Kellogg's new Pringles fail to make waves (WSJ)
• Warby Parker had a message. It's customers didn't care. Here's how it changed its message (Inc)