Best of Pax Westona: February 2021

• Amazon can make just about everything - except a good video game (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, to be replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy (NYT)
• The takeout king (Toronto Life)
• The shocking meltdown of Brooklyn's hottest ice cream shop (Marker)
• An ode to bubble tea (The New Yorker)
• Strategy vs planning: Complements, not substitutes (Medium)
• How Shopify is bracing for a looming battle with Amazon (Globe and Mail)
• The best story wins (Collaborative Fund)
• Amazon's great labour awakening (NYT Magazine)
• How H-E-B helped Texans after the winter storm (NYT)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Cheese actually isn't bad for you (Wired)
• Where are the directors in a world in crisis (Globe and Mail)
• The + that's taking over streaming platforms (NYT)
• Supermarkets are pressured to raise hazard pay (WSJ)
• From the archives (2008): Ontario's store wars march westwards (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they have to feed the world (Wired)
• An Amazon warehouses high-stakes union drive (The Guardian)
• A new class of 'performance beers' is taking a page from Gatorade (Bloomberg)
• The origins of buttergate (Globe and Mail)
• The (surprising) rise of the sheet pan (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Estee Lauder to buy Deciem in a deal valuing the company at $2.2 billion (CBC)
• Conagra's post-Covid strategy (WSJ)
• McDonald's joins the fierce fight for chicken sandwich supremacy (NYT)
• Dollar General takes steps to find potential CEO successor (Reuters)
• Ontario startup bets insect powder will make our food system more sustainable (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The motivation for strategy (Medium)
• Restaurants and startups try to outrun Uber Eats and DoorDash (WSJ)
• Amazon's former delivery guru wants to solve the 'middle mile' (Bloomberg)
• How H-E-B helped Texans after the winter storm (NYT)
• The Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's 'conscious capitalism' (The New Yorker)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon's great labour awakening (NYT Magazine)
• Fast food fans demand return of old favourites (WSJ)
• Walmart Canada defends controversial supplier fee as sales soar (Financial Post)
• Annie's pledges to purge a class of chemicals from its Mac and Cheese (NYT)
• If nobody loves grape nuts, why are they sold out everywhere (Marker)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Can Danone pull a Nestle? Activists are betting on it (Bloomberg)
• Sending flowers during COVID, for many reasons (NYT)
• After blistering 2020, Shopify warns of softer year ahead (Globe and Mail)
• How a health food store became L.A.'s hottest hangout (NYT) 
• From the archives (1993): 50 reasons why we cannot change (Fast Company)