Best of Pax Westona: February 2020

• How KitchenAid and Le Creuset took over millennial kitchens (The Atlantic)
• The rise of mouth tech (Wired)
• How vaping became a public health crisis (New York Magazine)
• The lucrative, largely unregulated, and widely misunderstood world of vaping (California Sunday Magazine)
• How Glossier turned itself into a billion-dollar beauty brand (Wired)
• Why it only costs $10K to 'own' a Chick-Fil-A franchise (The Hustle)
• Digital disruption at the grocery store (McKinsey)
• Tampon wars: The battle to overthrow the Tampax empire (The Guardian)
• Costco capitalism (Bryan Lehrer)
• How the KitchenAid stand mixer achieved icon status (Eater)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Walmart in discussions to sell stake in Asda (BBC)
• Why fast fashion is facing an inflection point (Rita McGrath)
• Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor (Recode)
• It's easy to get people to drink less soda (Fast Company)
• From the archives (2008): The testing of Michael McCain (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Walmart takes on CVS, Amazon with low-price health care clinics (Bloomberg)
• Walmart to combine online and store buying teams (WSJ)
• Men's shaving upstart goes from web to Walgreens (Bloomberg)
• Corporate monopolies are hiding in your grocery aisle (Vox)
• Kellogg's chief growth officer on the future of packaged food (McKinsey)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Glass, once the king of packaging, seeks a comeback (WSJ)
• Sephora's head of stores talks expansion (Retail Dive)
• Amazon expands physical footprint and bigger cashier-less stores (Reuters)
• How the KitchenAid stand mixer achieved icon status (Eater)
• In the midst of a border crisis, cooking is about more than survival (Bon Appetit)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The a16z Marketplace 100 (Andreesen Horowitz)
• Dying malls seek second life as entertainment destination (Curbed)
• Crop app Cropster wants to save coffee and the global food supply (Bloomberg)
• Everything you wanted to know about the drugstore (New York Magazine)
• Cargill to challenge Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods with new plant-based burger (Reuters)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• FreshDirect stages a comeback (NYT)
• The gas station M&A frenzy looks like a bubble (Bloomberg)
• The robot in aisle five isn't stalking you (WSJ)
• What happens to your mail-order mattress after you return it (538)
• The U.S.-Iran pistachio war is heating up (Businessweek)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• The weirdest subway restaurant in America (WSJ)
• Softbank's $375 million bet on pizza went really bad, really fast (Bloomberg)
• Costco capitalism (Bryan Lehrer)
• Blue Apron eyes options including a sale (WSJ)
• From the archives (1955): The barnum of the supermarkets (Macleans)