Coffee meets groceries (Wall Street Journal): A former Starbucks executive is being brought in to facilitate Albertson’s $24-billion merger with Rite Aid. The merger could bring more grocery items to Rite Aid locations.
Walmart’s meal boxes (CNBC): Walmart is introducing its own version of the popular meal kit, which it plans to roll out in 2,000 stores this year. The retailer hopes its brick-and-mortar stores will give it an edge over meal-kit delivery startups.
Crunching on jellyfish chips (Food Politics): Truly foreign to the Western palate, jellyfish may have a future as an exotic snack now that scientists at the University of Southern Denmark found a way to create jellyfish chips with a crispy texture. That would appeal more to Westerners than the traditional Asian method of perserving jellyfish in salt, to create a texture like pickled cucumbers.
Grain backlog in Canada (iPolitics): The Canadian National railroad installed an interim chief executive as it faces mounting complaints of delays in shipping grain from the western provinces. Farmers say they face serious cash flow problems because the grain is not moving and they have called on the Trudeau government to get the trains moving within two weeks.
Salads, not cheeseburgers, for Trump (Bloomberg): Under doctor’s orders to shed a few pounds, President Trump is shunning the fast food that figured in his campaign and is eating salads and soup, for at least some of the time. Every diet has its limits; Trump had bacon for breakfast one day last week.