Whole Shopping List
Slate Technology
Slate
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Whole Foods based its brand on a certain standard of quality—but there are some things that shoppers nevertheless want. Amazon believes it has found a way to keep the shelves looking like Whole Foods, while getting you the Tide PODS and Cheez-Its you deeply desire.
Guest: Peyton Bigora, staff reporter for Grocery Dive
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| 0:00.0 | This festive season of McDonald's |
| 0:01.7 | Get Grinched deals every day. |
| 0:03.2 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:04.1 | With a sausage sandwich for just... |
| 0:05.4 | Let's see, 9-9-N-P? |
| 0:06.6 | Six chigger macnuggets for just... |
| 0:07.9 | Nine and ap! |
| 0:09.6 | Fine. |
| 0:10.3 | Get Grinch deals every day in the McDonald's app. |
| 0:15.1 | 18 plus app only. |
| 0:16.3 | Ends 24th of December. |
| 0:17.2 | One use per offer. |
| 0:17.9 | Fees apply to delivery. |
| 0:18.7 | Participation varies. |
| 0:19.4 | Please and C seize apply. Hello, everyone, it is Lizzie. I want to tell you a story about a time I did something |
| 0:25.5 | incredibly stupid. It was a couple of years ago, and I got an Instagram message from a woman I went to |
| 0:31.5 | college with. I didn't know her all that well, but enough to follow each other on social media. |
| 0:36.1 | She had DM'd me a link about her new |
| 0:38.9 | business, which I clicked on and promptly got hacked. My account was taken over by crypto scammers, |
| 0:45.8 | who started posting pictures of my kid and somehow also links to invest in Bitcoin on top of them. |
| 0:52.8 | I was locked out, the scammers tried to scam my friends, the whole thing |
| 0:56.5 | was a huge mess. And despite emailing and emailing and following all the supposed right protocols, |
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