Best of Pax Westona: May 2019

• Walgreens could use a prescription for ailing drugstore business (Bloomberg)
• H-E-B runs True Texas BBQ, the best barbecue chain in Texas (Texas Monthly)
• The raisin situation (NYT)
• Dim sum is dead. Long live dim sum (Airbnb Magazine)
• A second look at the tuna sandwich's all-American history (Taste)
• A hunger for tomatoes (The Bitter Southerner)
• The question of dinner (Oxford American)
• The price of plenty: How beef changed America (The Guardian)
• Dixie vodka (Oxford American)
• Sears' seven decades of self-destruction (Fortune)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• A town in Newfoundland drowned in the smell of fish sauce (Eater)
• Canada's syrup cartel challenged by Vermont's 'Maple on Steroids' (Bloomberg)
• Craft breweries lighten up and take aim at the 'sweaty customer' (NYT)
• That's not sand, it's superfood (WSJ)
• From the archives (2013): Squeezing Heinz (Fortune)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Jellyfish supper delivered by drone? Radical future predicted for food (The Guardian)
• Amazon is poised to poised to unleash a long-feared purge on small suppliers (Bloomberg)
• Can J Crew find itself - and its customers - again? (Vanity Fair)
• It's expensive, bland, and eaten all over Southeast Asia (Taste)
• Many in Chinatown have never tried its most popular food - so I brought it to them (LA Times)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Food delivery apps are drowning China in trash (NYT)
• IKEA to revamp app as store strategy shifts (Reuters)
• How working parents can make family meals happen (HBR)
• Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal are winning digital payments where Apple couldn't (Barron's)
• J.C. Penney and Kohl's have failed their most loyal customers: Middle-aged moms (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Amazon, Walmart, and other stores have too many options (The Atlantic)
• Nestle still committed to global confectionery (Reuters)
• DoorDash's valuation soars to $12.6 billion as money rushes into delivery (WSJ)
• Joe Beef and the excesses of restaurant culture (The New Yorker)
• Ontario to end Beer Store deal, paving way for beer in corner stores (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Hamburger helpers: The history of America's favourite sandwich (History)
• Finally an IPO to stock the shelves (WSJ)
• The future of work in retail automation (McKinsey)
• There's a multi-billion dollar race to replace the chicken egg (Bloomberg)
• How 3G and a $50B buyout fund turned Kraft Heinz upside down (Pitch Book)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How celery became the unlikely star of the produce aisle (LA Times)
• Pret a Manger to buy rival Eat in veggie push (FT)
• M&S food push gives some investors indigestion (Bloomberg)
• Future of driverless deliveries depends on large automakers (WSJ)
• From the archives (1985): New Coke vs. classic: The verdict is still out (NYT)