Best of Pax Westona: September 2019

• Service jobs should be - and can be - middle-class jobs (HBR)
• Facebook Marketplace: The wild west of e-commerce (WSJ)
• How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage (National Geographic)
• An interview with Alibaba chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang (McKinsey)
• A shadowy industry group shapes food policy around the world (NYT)
• A new theory of obesity (Scientific American)
• Was the Gap ever cool (NYT)
• Can a burger help solve climate change (The New Yorker)
• The Uniqlo story (SCMP)
• Buying birth control online is a peek into the future of modern medicine (MIT TR)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart received outside interest in JetBlack unit (Bloomberg)
• The missing ingredient in Kraft Heinz's restructuring (HBR)
• For the McCain empire, climate change is serious business (FP)
• Supermarkets in France are opening on Sundays without workers (Bloomberg)
• Global food retailers join coalition to to slash rate of food waste (Supermarket News)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Best Buy sees health care as the retailer's next 'big thing' (Bloomberg)
• McKinsey to start selling underwear and makeup (FT)
• McDonald's to test plant-based burgers in Canada (NYT)
• Buying birth control online is a peek into the future of modern medicine (MIT TR)
• From the archives (2000): Webvan to acquire HomeGrocer.com for $1.2 billion (NYT)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on work, joy, and coffee (HBR)
• Bezos's big van order signals Amazon-backed Rivian is 'for real' (Bloomberg)
• Amazon's latest copycat brand: Allbirds (Quartz)
• Lululemon set to wind down Ivivva kids business (CNBC)
• McDonald's is now accepting job applications through Alexa and Google Assistant (The Verge)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Kraft Heinz: Two food giants that haven't gone so well together (NYT)
• Federal prosecutors conducting criminal probe of Juul (WSJ)
• Boston Beer Truly hard seltzer drives sales, not Sam Adams (Bloomberg)
• How health food invaded the beauty aisle (Vox)
• Ocado co-founder rejects 'ludicrous' espionage claims (FT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Can a burger help solve climate change (The New Yorker)
• The Uniqlo story (SCMP)
• Is the new meat any better than the old meat (NYT)
• Sweetgreen's tech focus helps push valuation to $1.6 billion (WSJ)
• For recovering bankers, the restaurant life beckons (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday PIcks

• Inside the supermarket strategy to lure customers away from restaurants (FP)
• My quest for lunchbox supremacy (NYT)
• The 'smart' kitchen is very stupid (Wired)
• Japanese milk bread is coming for your lunch (Bloomberg)
• Beer is turning industrial streets into thriving neighbourhoods (Globe and Mail)