Best of Pax Westona: May 2020

• How Cargill became the site of Canada's largest single outbreak of COVID-19 (Globe and Mail)
• Beef producers are grinding up their nicest cuts, while retailers can't meet demand for cheaper cuts (The Counter)
• The grapelord of Napa faces a threat worse than the plague (NYT)
• Fear lingers for workers at Cargill (Macleans)
• How the internet created a sport cards boom (Sports Illustrated)
• J Crew, Brooks Brothers, and the decline of American prep style (FT)
• Doordash and pizza arbitrage (The Margins)
• Inside the flour company supplying America's baking obsession (Marker)
• Will the world's breadbaskets become less reliable (McKinsey)
• The human cost of Instacart's grocery delivery (The Verge)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Big pharmacy chains also fed the opioid epidemic (NYT)
• Americans it turns out, would rather buy from a store than online (Bloomberg)
• Old-fashioned milkman makes the rounds as U.S. shoppers stay home (Reuters)
• Amazon misses a shopping opportunity (NYT)
• From the archives (1994): The fall and rise of strategic planning (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• The human cost of Instacart's grocery delivery (The Verge)
• Amazon in advanced talks to buy self-driving car company Zoox (WSJ)
• COVID-19 lawsuit takes on McDonald's like it was a rowdy bar (Reuters)
• The case for letting the restaurant industry die (The New Yorker)
• Mom and pop retailers are struggling. Big box giants are thriving (Barron's)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• As meatpacking plants reopen, data about worker illness remains elusive (NYT) 
• Indigo CEO on retail's future after the Coronavirus (Globe and Mail)
• America's malls are incredibly dependent on struggling retailers (CNBC)
• Covid-19 makes the case for more meatpacking robots (Wired)
• The meat industry is trying to get back to normal. But workers are still getting sick (Washington Post)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Will the world's breadbaskets become less reliable (McKinsey)
• Grocery workers are in the dark about risks (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus could finally force over stored retail shutdowns (Bloomberg)
• What happened to the great American logistics machine (NYT)
• Hudson's Bay Co. accused of 'corporate shell game' in U.S. lawsuit (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Rebuilding the economy on good jobs (HBR)
• What Couche-Tard's CEO sees coming (Globe and Mail)
• Walmart ekes out an edge in groceries during the pandemic (The Economist)
• Restaurants are facing a rotten future (Slate)
• Walmart's China plans adds optimism to Asian grocers (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Inside the flour company supplying America's baking obsession (Marker)
• Apollo Global invests $1.75 billion in Albertsons (Reuters)
• Walmart's U.S. boss expects Coronavirus to alter shopping permanently (WSJ)
• How the pandemic is changing shopping (Washington Post)
• From the archives (2005): Metro muscles into Ontario, winning A&P bid (Globe and Mail)