Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Are you agile enough for agile management (WSJ)
• Packaging solutions. Poised to take off? (McKinsey)
• Why do appliances have their own jingles (The Atlantic)
• It's hot. It's August. It's pumpkin spice time? (NYT)
• As customers begin to shop through voice assistants, what can brands do to stand out (HBR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why Amazon pays warehouse employees to tweet about their jobs (Vox)
• Cashierless stores make inroads in U.S. (WSJ)
• How nutcrackers became New York's best hustle (Grub Street)
• Amazon's autonomous robots are now delivering packages in California (WP)
• Trader Joe's, H-E-B, Wegmans and Costco share competitive edge (Winsight Grocery Business)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• H&M and Zara are closing stores to get ahead (Fortune)
• The quest for lab-made dairy (NYT)
• Inside General Mills' plan to make Lucky Charms seem hip (WSJ)
• The last robot-proof job in America (The New Yorker)
• Sea buckthorn is the latest superfruit to crack Michelin-starred restaurants (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Can Britain's top bookseller save Barnes & Noble (NYT)
• Why you can't escape spiked seltzer this summer (Slate)
• Home Depot's CFO on how the retail giant returned to health (WSJ)
• We put a 'sin tax' on cigarettes and alcohol. Why not meat (Vox)
• Today's contrarian ketchup consumers (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• FedEx, UPS find formula for delivering seven days a week (WSJ)
• The best probiotic? Fruits and vegetables (The Atlantic)
• Canadian Tire buys all Party City stores in Canada for $175M (CBC)
• Climate change threatens world's food supply, United Nations warns (NYT)
• From the archives (1985): Beatrice agrees to $6 billion buyout offer (Washington Post)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How the Beyond Meat sausage is made (Bloomberg)
• Tainted pork, ill consumers, and an investigation thwarted (NYT)
• Cherry capital of the U.S. faces competition from Turkish imports (WSJ)
• Cashless stores alienate customers in the name of efficiency (Wired)
• This is the beginning of the end for the beef industry (Outside)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why meal delivery companies are everywhere (The Atlantic)
• The fasting cure is no fad (WSJ)
• Kosher food merger opens new chapter for famous name (NYT)
• The business of sleep (GQ)
• Cult favourite Topo Chico breaks out of Texas with help from Coke (Bloomberg)