Slimmed down grocery sales
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Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
More Americans are using GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, for weight loss, and that’s impacting their grocery shopping habits. A new survey finds that GLP-1 use could shave up to 2.7% off grocery store sales this year. So, how are food companies adapting? Also on the program: a preview of major Supreme Court decisions coming up and a frank conversation about the costs of being in a wedding party, courtesy of the Marketplace podcast "This Is Uncomfortable."
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| 0:00.0 | For decades, companies built their procurement and supply chains around cost and efficiency. |
| 0:05.7 | Today, that's no longer enough. |
| 0:08.1 | Wars, trade conflicts, and the regionalization of trade have changed the rules. |
| 0:13.2 | Companies still need to control costs, but they also need to reduce risk and respond faster to disruptions and shocks. |
| 0:20.6 | GEP helps the world's leading enterprises do exactly that. |
| 0:24.8 | Through its AI-native quantum intelligence platform and services, |
| 0:28.8 | GEP helps companies gain visibility, predict and manage risk, |
| 0:32.9 | and make smarter capital investments across their global value chain. |
| 0:36.6 | More than 7,000 employees across 30 |
| 0:39.5 | offices support over 1,000 organizations worldwide. GEP combines agentic AI with three decades |
| 0:47.1 | of procurement and supply chain data and expertise. Learn more at gEP.com. |
| 0:55.1 | We're coming up on the season finale for the nation's highest court. |
| 1:00.1 | From Marketplace in Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 1:03.6 | The Supreme Court is poised to issue decisions on several major cases as it wraps up its current term. |
| 1:09.6 | Opinions could come as early as today on cases that |
| 1:12.4 | impact the independence of the Federal Reserve and Federal Regulatory agencies. Marketplace's |
| 1:18.1 | Nova Saffo has the details. Among the two most consequential cases in this term's docket are Trump v. Cook |
| 1:24.5 | and Trump v. Slaughter. As the name suggests, they have to do with the president's |
| 1:28.7 | assertions of executive authority. Trump tried to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. |
| 1:34.3 | It's the first time ever a president has tried to do so. Lower courts halted the move. |
| 1:39.5 | During oral arguments in January, justice has appeared inclined to also block Cook's firing, expressing |
| 1:45.3 | concerns about due process and the need to insulate the Fed from politics. |
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