Best of Pax Westona: April 2020

• How Dave Lewis fixed ailing supermarket giant Tesco (FT)
• The workers who make American work (NYT)
• The king of venture capital (Forbes)
• How consumer goods companies can prepare for the next normal (McKinsey)
• The death of the department store (NYT)
• Companies should shift from 'just in time' to 'just in case' (FT)
• What managers get wrong about capital (HBR)
• The war on coffee (The New Yorker)
• Closing the restaurant that was my life (NYT)
• How the pandemic will change the face of retail (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Sympathy cards are selling out (NYT)
• Tyson Foods helped create the meat crisis it's now warning about (Bloomberg)
• Women are buying 'Essential AF' shirts, candles, and wine glasses (The Atlantic)
• Why am I paying $60 for that bag of rice on Amazon (The Markup)
• Monopoly maker gets big lift from lockdown (WSJ)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Bezos takes back the wheel at Amazon (NYT)
• The scramble for delivery robots is on and startups can barely keep up (WSJ)
• How the pandemic will change the face of retail (The Atlantic)
• Why does everyone but me have a sunburst mirror (Vox)
• Foodora to exit Canada just months after workers won the right to unionize (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Closing the restaurant that was my life (NYT)
• Grocery upstarts race to exploit food delivery overload (Bloomberg)
• Avocados are in, pork bellies out in the era of pandemic eating (Bloomberg)
• Grocers hunt for meat as Coronavirus hobbles beef and pork plants (WSJ)
• Retail M&A and partnerships after COVID-19 (McKinsey)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• The war on coffee (The New Yorker)
• Victoria's Secret sale at risk as buyer blames virus response (NYT)
• Amazon scooped up data from its own customers to launch competing products (WSJ)
• What grocery store upstarts say they're facing amid the Coronavirus pandemic (Vox)
• Here's why you can't find frozen fries while farmers are sitting on tons of potatoes (Reuters)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• What managers get wrong about capital (HBR)
• These photos show the staggering food bank lines across America (Mother Jones)
• Calling me a hero only makes you feel better (The Atlantic)
• Nina Balducci, who shaped a famed grocery store, dies at 91 (NYT)
• From the archives (2010): Walmart tries to unmask its opponents (WSJ)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Sysco goes direct-to-consumer with new online grocery service (Globe and Mail)
• The death of the department store (NYT)
• Companies should shift from 'just in time' to 'just in case' (FT)
• The state of the restaurant industry (Open Table)
• Surge in demand sees Robin Hood flour running out of its iconic yellow bags (CBC)