Dina Shanker
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370 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Feb
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Marketplace All-in-One · What if Trump does roll back steel and aluminum tariffs? · 16 Feb 2026
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When Seinfeld was going off the air, we came up with this idea that if someone sent us nothing, you know, because it was like a show about nothing, that we would send them a free bag of chips.
We got so many things, thousands and thousands and thousands of nothing.
It was like, you know, empty envelopes, empty cassette tapes, like big boxes of air.
Her father sold Cape Cod chips to snack company Lance in 1999.
Dawes moved on to found successful organic snack brand Late July, and more recently, the sparkling beverage brand Nixie.
Although it's been years since she worked for Cape Cod chips, the recent news of Campbell's decision to close the factory still feels like a loss.
My heart breaks for the people who lost their jobs because, you know, this is a tough time to lose a job.
It's a tough time to get a job.
And
American food factory jobs are incredible jobs.
Dawes cites the ability of workers to move up within a factory as one of the reasons that closures like this are a loss to the community.
Campbell says 49 jobs will be affected when the factory shuts down in April.
The company said it's moving operations to more modern, efficient facilities in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
The news is also a personal loss for Dawes, who still calls Cape Cod home.
I will admit it hit me pretty hard.
My father passed away a number of years ago.
And there was just something about, you know, every time I would drive by that plant and smell the potato chips cooking, it just felt like a little piece of home.
And when I found out that it was closing, you know, it did feel a little bit like losing like that kind of last piece of my dad.
Dawes won't see the factory where she grew up continue on.
But she says every time she smells a freshly fried slice of potato,
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