Tanya Mosley

You call them suspiciously like bribes.

Yes.

What are slotting fees?

Sorry about that.

Because it's a staple, so they know you're going for milk and eggs and meats.

So to have to walk through the entire store to get there, then you go through all of that ultra-processed stuff and all of the packaged stuff.

It's great for your step counts, too.

You mentioned something about camera research.

This is so fascinating.

When you say camera research, you mean the cameras that are in the store, but also the cameras that are in the self-checkout.

You have this handy little list of the top grocers in the U.S., and the list is from 2023, but I think the list still stands even in 2025.

And the names won't surprise many.

Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Publix.

But there's also one on the list that's relatively new, and that's Dollar General.

How did dollar stores get into the food business?

These dollar stores, they're everywhere, but they're also concentrated in very specific places and poor and urban neighborhoods.

You know, I grew up with a grocery store chain in the Detroit area called Farmer Jack.

And it was there for many, many decades.

And then, poof, I think it was the early 2000s, they just disappeared.

And it seemed to be that way throughout the country in places, in major cities.