Thrilling Tales: The Story of Dollar General
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the |
| 0:06.0 | Best Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title. |
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| 0:21.4 | Last month alone we were joined by Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, |
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| 0:42.8 | I'm Seth Stevenson, the host of Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism. |
| 0:53.2 | Last week our episode was about Whole Foods and Amazon's efforts in the world of groceries. |
| 0:58.4 | As part of our reporting on that world, one of the people we spoke to was Stacey Mitchell, |
| 1:02.7 | a co-director at the Anti-Konglamorate Nonprofit Group Institute for Local Self-Reliance. |
| 1:08.3 | And Stacey told us something interesting, that there's another type of huge national |
| 1:12.2 | player in groceries, expanding its footprint wildly in a different part of America. |
| 1:17.8 | If you live in Whole Foods land, you probably never much run into a dollar general or a family |
| 1:24.4 | dollar. |
| 1:25.8 | But for a lot of Americans, that's a primary source of grocery shopping. |
| 1:30.1 | I mean, those stores are really prevalent. |
| 1:32.9 | There is Whole Foods land and there is dollar store land. |
| 1:35.7 | And those two geographies don't really intersect at all. |
| 1:40.6 | Whole Foods targets a relatively high-income customer. |
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