Thursday, 31 October 2019

Stephan's Thursday Picks
  • Uber hopes drones can lift it to profitability (Wired)
  • Amazon drops grocery delivery fee as competitors close in (Reuters)
  • Walgreens to close in-store clinics, make way for new services (Bloomberg)
  • Is your cashew-milk latte an ethical choice (Quartz)
  • Feel like you're the only one buying your own groceries at Whole Foods? Possibly (WSJ)

Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Stephan's Wednesday Picks
  • The truth about open offices (HBR)
  • The first map of America's food supply chain is mind-boggling (Fast Company)
  • H&M CEO sees 'terrible' fallout as consumer shaming spreads (Bloomberg)
  • Diaper rush: Conquering a $9 billion market no one wants to talk about (Reuters)
  • The story of the Entenmann family bakery fortune (Town & Country)

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Stephan's Tuesday Picks
  • The next wave of consumer M&A: Searching for growth (McKinsey)
  • How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisle (Vox)
  • The drones are here (WSJ)
  • There are more knockoff Tommy's chili burgers in LA than genuine ones (LA Times)
  • Meat theft: The strange new crime taking over Winnipeg grocery stores (Macleans)

Monday, 28 October 2019

Stephan's Monday Picks
  • How Bon Appetit became a YouTube sensation (Man Repeller)
  • Inside the Nordstrom dynasty (NYT)
  • Amazon ready to pour billions into policing its products on its site (WSJ)
  • We wouldn't have e-commerce without Amazon (Quartz)
  • How Best Buy's Barry went from 'risk' to CEO (Fortune)

Friday, 25 October 2019

Stephan's Friday Picks
  • The junk food that wants to have it both ways (WSJ)
  • One family built Forever 21, and fueled its collapse (NYT)
  • Scientists are literally spinning up lab-grown meat (Wired)
  • Sorry - organic farming is actually worse for the climate change (MIT TR)
  • From the archives (2008): A store and a vision (Globe and Mail)

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Stephan's Thursday Picks
  • The great Texas whiskey boom (Texas Monthly)
  • Amazon acquires digital health startup Health Navigator (CNBC)
  • Would you like fries with that? McDonald's already knows the answer (NYT)
  • These $50 chicken nuggets were grown in a lab (Bloomberg)
  • Ex-Stitch Fix COO raises $30 million for AI-powered shopping platform (Vogue)

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Stephan's Wednesday Picks
  • Online advertisers tell you what to buy, advertisers wonder who's listening (WSJ)
  • HBC accepts sweetened takeover bid from Baker (Globe and Mail)
  • Bidding war breaks out for food delivery service Just Eat (Bloomberg)
  • The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR (MIT TR)
  • The world can make more water from the sea, but at what cost (NYT)