What your grocery store is telling us about supply chains

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This Whaddya Wanna Know Wednesday, Kai and Kimberly are tackling your questions about the supply chain — from how we could look at shortages and backlogs as pandemic indicators to why it seems like processed foods are less likely to sell out at the grocery store. And we’ll make you smart fast on Elon Musk’s plan to purchase Twitter.

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

“Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’” from NBC News
“Materials and labor shortages continue to complicate construction industry” from Marketplace
The Pew Research Center’s data on social media use

Do you have a question for Whaddya Wanna Know Wednesday? Send a voice memo or email to [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART (508-827-6278).

Transcript

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0:00.0	And well, we're back into the swing of things.
0:03.7	We're back.
0:04.7	And there, I believe, is Trump.
0:07.0	I don't even know who that is.
0:08.0	It's probably Jake or something.
0:09.0	Anyway, everybody, I'm Kyle Rizzo.
0:10.6	Welcome back to Make Me's Minute Early by Keisha.
0:13.6	I'm Kyle Rizzo.
0:14.6	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:15.6	Where we make the day make sense.
0:17.8	Phew.
0:18.8	Well, at least make a generalized attempt.
0:21.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams back from vacation just in time for what do you want to know
0:26.3	Wednesday when we answer your questions.
0:30.0	And you can email us those questions to make me smart at marketplace.org or leave us a
0:35.1	voicemail.
0:36.1	Our number is 508UB smart.
0:40.1	And with that Kai-Sai, here's our first one.
0:42.4	Hey, make me smart team.
0:44.4	It's Melissa from San Francisco.
0:47.4	I'm not cool enough to have a Twitter account, but somehow you want less good all over
0:52.9	my new feed.
	...

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