South Korea’s ‘dopamine sites’ let you shop, order food, and spend nothing

Fake shopping carts, food orders, and delivery trackers are becoming a strange new way to scratch the spending itch.
The Business Journals

Whole Foods plans store in new Fishtown development

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The store would become the only ...
The Guardian

Big tobacco uses cigarette playbook to help sell ultra-processed foods, journal reveals

New issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on parallels between marketing for cigarettes and UPFs The new issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on ultra-processed ...

FIFA World Cup Has An Unofficial Second Economy, And It’s Gastronomic

If there’s a will to make money during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, there’s a way to design marketing campaigns skirting the line ...
Grocery Dive

Meet the automated cart builder used by Kroger and Wegmans

The grocers both offer conversational shopping assistants using agentic technology provided by AI startup Cooklist.
NPR

Big Tobacco hooked us on ultra-processed foods. It might teach us how to cut back

Tobacco companies spent decades honing marketing strategies, flavor engineering and processing technologies that helped addict consumers to cigarettes. Then, in the 1980s, they started buying up large ...