Who’s winning the dollar store wars?
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Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As shoppers remain price-conscious, why is one U.S. dollar store chain thriving while another one flounders? Plus, SpaceX builds spy satellites for the Pentagon, and environmental protests impact operations at Tesla’s EV factory in Germany.
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| 0:36.7 | I'm David Brancaccio and St Paul today. |
| 0:38.7 | First, the news agency Reuters is reporting that SpaceX |
| 0:42.4 | is building spy satellites for the Pentagon. |
| 0:44.7 | SpaceX has been promoting a new Star Shield unit. |
| 0:47.6 | Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has more. |
| 0:50.3 | On a splashy page of its website, SpaceX says Star Shield will quote |
| 0:54.6 | support national security efforts. Now Reuters is reporting that Star Shield is |
| 0:59.6 | creating a network of spy satellites for the U.S. military consisting of hundreds of satellites. |
| 1:05.3 | Reuters cites five sources familiar with the program, adding that the network would enable the |
| 1:10.3 | U.S. to track movements on the ground almost anywhere in the world. |
| 1:14.8 | SpaceX says Star Shields technology can be integrated onto partner satellites, |
| 1:19.6 | implying that other countries could use it. |
| 1:21.9 | SpaceX hasn't responded to a request for comment. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. |
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