What if Amazon and Cargill had a business model baby? Or Kane Beef. Or Simmons Foods. Or any packer with a pulse on the future of food retail.

Raise your hand if the following words make your head hurt with ambiguity & overuse: big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc, etc. 

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California has Yosemite.

Yum China turned its business around through its mobile app that drove traffic to stores.

Albertson’s just partnered with a prominent venture capital firm to start a “grocery tech” venture fund.

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Spotify skipped the big name Wall Street investment banks to publicly list shares of the company directly.

A game changer in the 2018 World Cup, VAR (Video Assistant Referee system) has driven more precise calls on the field, pulling players and fans closer to the edge of every game. The edge — it’s...

“Disney parks executives are working on adopting a dynamic pricing...

Have you read Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday? It’s on the list of “books I should read every quarter the rest of my life.”

If you haven’t read Jeff Bezos’ recent letter to shareholders you may want to stop reading this and go find it. Just be sure to catch this paragraph: