Just-Walk-Out Technology

(1) App & Carry shopping. (2) Amazon uses self-driving technologies to drive self-service stores. (3) Help not needed. (4) Fight-for-$15 movement didn’t get the memo. (5) Ex-CEO of McDonald’s: “I told you so.” (6) Demography and technology weighing on wages. (7) Productivity stagnation actually led by manufacturing more than services. (8) The Economist cover story about low rates forever might be a keeper for contrarians. (9) NM-PMIs around the world and retail sales in Eurozone look like Old Normal. (10) Euro hard hit by Brexit and now possibility of Italeave.