Let’s talk about ‘share of stomach’
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Almost two years into COVID-19, there are some parts of the pandemic that don’t seem to be going away. Yes, variants. But also the way we spend our money. We’ll talk about why grocery stores are still capturing the majority share of stomach and what that means in the days of omicron. Plus, a successful spacewalk, and we nerd out over today’s date.
Here’s everything we talked about:
- “President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and Omicron Variants as We Battle COVID-19 this Winter” from the White House
- “Covid vaccines: WTO chief very concerned about unequal distribution” from CNBC
- “Kroger lifts profit, sales forecast on sustained grocery demand” from Reuters
- “NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk postponed due to debris risk” from CNN
- Kimberly’s space junk series Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- “Today’s date is rare: it reads the same forward, backward and upside down” from the Detroit Free Press
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| 0:49.8 | Hi, I am Kimberly Adams. |
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