Best of Pax Westona: November 2019

• Inside Walmart's corporate culture clash over e-commerce (Bloomberg)
• The everything town in the middle of nowhere (The Verge)
• The grocery store where produce meets politics (The New Yorker)
• The direct-to-consumer reckoning (BoF)
• Packaging: A $1.2 trillion sector going through a re-think (Rita McGrath)
• Warby Parker wants to be the Warby Parker of contacts (Bloomberg)
• How our home delivery habit reshaped the world (The Guardian)
• The real problem with Paula Deen (Eater)
• Ruthless quotas at Amazon are maiming employees (The Atlantic)
• Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments dominated math class (Gen)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The great, American eye-exam scam (The Atlantic)
• Shoppers are buying more generic brands (Bloomberg)
• Bernard Arnault bought Tiffany. Who is he (NYT)
• How 'calming' drinks made with adaptogens and CBD took over (Eater)
• From the archives (2004): Grocer Metro no longer le premier choix (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments dominated math class (Gen)
• Impossible Foods eyes doubling valuation with new funding (Reuters)
• Chasing Amazon, retailers are in a never-ending arms race (NYT)
• Couche-Tard makes $5.8 billion bid for Australia's Caltex (Globe and Mail)
• Meet the $50 strawberries that top NYC chefs are fawning over (Eater)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Why robots should learn to build crappy IKEA furniture (Wired)
• Grocery-carrying robots are coming. Do we need them (NYT)
• Ruthless quotas at Amazon are maiming employees (The Atlantic)
• If that was the retail apocalypse then where are the refugees (WP)
• Toronto's Knix Wear raises venture capital to take on lingerie giant Victoria's Secret (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Fake meat companies are racing to 3D-print steaks (Bloomberg)
• Welcome to the button wars (WSJ)
• The real problem with Paula Deen (Eater)
• The life and death of the local hardware store (NYT)
• Judge dismisses Subway's $210M lawsuit against CBC over chicken sandwich expose (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon throws spaghetti on the grocery wall (Bloomberg)
• Amazon has become America's CEO factory (WSJ)
• Rona's tragedy in three acts (Financial Post)
• Metro to increase use of self-checkout as it copes with labour crunch (Globe and Mail)
• Unilever, Henkel, and buyout funds eye bids for Coty's $7 billion beauty brands (Reuters)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How our home delivery habit reshaped the world (The Guardian)
• Talent may be shifting away from superstar cities (CityLab)
• Kroger dials back overhaul as sales sputter (WSJ)
• The state of fashion 2020: Navigating uncertainty (McKinsey)
• From the archives (2006): Metro looking west for more acquisitions (Globe and Mail)