Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of Slate and the Times and

such places. Hello. With Emily Peck of Axios. Hello, hello. We are going to talk about shopping,

since it's the shopping season. We're going to talk about online versus physical shopping. We're going

to talk about self-checkout. We're going to talk about shrinkage and theft and organized retail crime. We're going to talk about self-checkout. We're going to talk about

shrinkage and theft and organized retail crime. We are going to talk about airline mergers,

and specifically the airline merger of Alaska with Hawaiian. We are going to talk about

podcasting and whether the podcasting bubble has burst. We have a Slate Plus segment on meetings that

should have been emails. It's all coming up on Slate Money.

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