The War on Self-Checkouts
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss their Christmas shopping strategies and whether it’s time for self-checkouts to check out. Also: What big airline mergers mean for those of us in economy class, and whether the podcast bubble has finally burst. In the Plus segment: Do we really need to have meetings?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to sleep money. You're going to |
| 0:12.0 | Hello! Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Felix. I'm on Axios with Elizabeth Spires of Slate and the Times and such places. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello? |
| 0:24.0 | With Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:28.0 | We are going to talk about shopping. |
| 0:29.0 | Since it's the shopping season, |
| 0:31.0 | we're going to talk about online versus physical shopping. We're going to talk |
| 0:35.0 | about self-checkout. We're going to talk about shrinkage and theft and organized retail crime. |
| 0:41.1 | We are going to talk about airline mergers and specifically the airline merger of Alaska |
| 0:46.1 | with Hawaiian. We are going to talk about podcasting and whether the podcasting bubble has burst. |
| 0:53.5 | We have a Slate Plus segment on meetings that should have been emails. |
| 0:59.1 | It's all coming up on Slate money. So Elizabeth, have you done your holiday shopping yet? |
| 1:07.0 | Did you do that thing that Americans are meant to do on Black Friday and go out and buy lots of Christmas |
| 1:12.0 | presents? |
| 1:13.2 | I've done some of it, but I did it all over the internet so far. |
| 1:17.4 | According to the numbers, about 16%, I think, 17%, something like that of all shopping these days in America is done on the |
| 1:28.8 | internet. But there seems to be this kind of narrative that everything has moved online. |
| 1:37.0 | So Emily, do you understand this, I feel like there's a disconnect here that like all of the buzz and the |
| 1:46.0 | discourse is surrounding e-commerce even though good old-fashioned bricks and |
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