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Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

With more than 40% of shop staff facing abuse at the counter every week, Sean Farrington talks to workers, an investigator and a retail charity about what's behind the assaults and what can be done to stop them, Also,our expert guests talk about budgets and budget pledges ahead of the big day later this month. And...it's the invasion of the food influencers, coming to a food market near you. Do they serve an important role for the restaurant trade - or are they just putting everyone else off their dinner? We hear from both sides of the table.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide
0:14.4	through all the information and misinformation that's out there about mental health.
0:19.0	I'm joined by expert guests covering topics from people pleasing to perfectionism,
0:24.2	burnout to empathy, to find tangible advice so we can understand ourselves a little better.
0:30.5	Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson.
0:33.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:40.0	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:42.2	We've got three weeks to go until the budget.
0:45.2	Rachel Reeves will today vow to take the fair choices for the economy, she's going to say,
0:51.2	and the country's future.
0:52.4	But what might that mean?
0:53.5	Why now?
0:54.8	Why is she going to be doing a big speech? We're going to talk this through. What are they trying to gear us up for now?
0:59.5	Elsewhere, being shouted at, spat on, threatened or even hit. That's what more than 40% of
1:04.7	shop workers say they experience every week, according to a new survey. We'll hear about how the
1:10.6	retail abuse continues to be a major
1:13.2	problem for the sector, what's been done to tackle it. And Borough Market says it's clamping down
1:18.3	on influencers. Are they good or bad for business? Could it be both?
1:22.5	Wake up to money with Sean Farrington. Good morning to you. Wake up to Money on BBC 5 Live on this Tuesday morning, the 4th of November.
1:33.0	Just after 5 o'clock, plenty to be discussing on the show this morning.
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