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fucking blind, particularly the already financially vulnerable and even Fox Business, along with the New York Times, has taken notice.

Fox Business wrote this article that I think, did we say it was going a little viral?

Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah. It is.

Yeah. By now, pay later. Usage for groceries nearly doubles as consumers struggle with food costs.

And, I mean, they say lots of things in a Fox business type of way.

They just point out that data from an April lending trees report shows that 25% of such users have used the service to buy groceries

up from 14% a year ago.

And look, my takeaway initially, I think is the same as everyone else's.

They were like, oh, my God, that means people are financially stressed because if they're

using Buy Now Pay Later for their groceries, they must be in a bad

situation. You know, journalists for the Times went and interviewed people, and that is definitely

the case for some. But I'm just now in the moment realizing that the doubling from 14 to 25

or nearly doubling, that's also cultural because what we were going to get to in the conversation today

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