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Our grocery money's gone, your honor!

Nov 11, 2022

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9 min read

Our grocery money's gone, your honor!

You don’t have to have seen 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' to get why this sucks ass!

How (and why) to destroy Big Alcohol
LockSimple

Nov 11, 2022

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29 min read

How (and why) to destroy Big Alcohol

A transcription of The Fingers Podcast with James Wilt, author of 'Drinking Up the Revolution'

The limits of American beer royalty
LockSimple

Nov 4, 2022

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8 min read

The limits of American beer royalty

"The Heiress Valentine" tests the present-day cachet of Busch bona fides in Missouri

The alcopop redemption arc
LockSimple

Nov 2, 2022

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7 min read

The alcopop redemption arc

Strip-mining soft-drink portfolios for booze crossovers is still a solid strategy... for now

7 people

Oct 31, 2022

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2 min read

7 people

From Monster Energy to Qanon in under 3 minutes
LockSimple

Oct 28, 2022

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10 min read

From Monster Energy to Qanon in under 3 minutes

How a 2014 video about energy drinks foretold the delusions of today's right-wing boomers

The Four Horsemen of the Bang-pocalypse
LockSimple

Oct 21, 2022

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9 min read

The Four Horsemen of the Bang-pocalypse

“LIVE FOR TODAY, PREPARE FOR TOMORROW! ​🙌​.”

"If you’re a craft brewer, I don't understand how this could possibly benefit you in a million years."
LockSimple

Oct 17, 2022

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12 min read

"If you’re a craft brewer, I don't understand how this could possibly benefit you in a million years."

Benjamin Lorr, author of 'Secret Life of Groceries,' on the Kroger/Albertson's merger

The supermarket sweep
LockSimple

Oct 14, 2022

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7 min read

The supermarket sweep

Kroger x Albertson's in the Fingers Grocery Games

Hire me, Bang Energy

Oct 12, 2022

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12 min read

Hire me, Bang Energy

Let Fingers (mis)manage The Bang-ruptcy. Plus: TikTok Sbagliato (with Prosecco)

Beers, beef, and betrayal
LockSimple

Oct 6, 2022

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13 min read

Beers, beef, and betrayal

Behold meat raffle, a glorious Minnesotan bar ritual that no one ever told me about

Why dive bars need ThirdPlacesTok

Sep 30, 2022

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12 min read

Why dive bars need ThirdPlacesTok

How a viral video resurfaced the case for community spaces to a whole new audience

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