Oct 19, 2021

Can mediation hold off a wave of evictions?

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Plus: How clothing rental companies might fare as the economy reopens and P&G ups prices in response to the supply chain snafu.

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Procter & Gamble hikes prices, tries to ease supply chain clogs

by Justin Ho

Oct 19, 2021

P&G home goods, including skin and oral care, will cost more. Companies are getting creative about getting products to market.

Procter & Gamble, which owns household brands like Downy and Bounce, will raise prices as a result of higher costs and disruptions in its supply networks.

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Bitcoin fund hits the New York Stock Exchange

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Oct 19, 2021

The debut of the cryptocurrency ETF is a first. But like bitcoin itself, the value of the asset could be volatile.

A banner ballyhooes the newly listed bitcoin ETF outside the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

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Inside Philadelphia's eviction diversion program

by Amy Scott

Oct 19, 2021

Mediation aims to repair strained relationships and keep tenants in their homes.

Tenant activists hold anti-eviction signs outside a New York City marshal's office. In Philadelphia, the city's Eviction Diversion Program has conducted thousands of mediations and distributed rental relief.

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Federal pharma ingredient stockpile is under construction in Virginia

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Oct 19, 2021

The stockpile is a way to address shortages of some medicines. Some of the ingredients will be stored for emergency use.

Construction is underway in Petersburg, Virginia, on buildings to house a stockpile of pharmaceutical ingredients.

Nancy Marshall-Genzer

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Are people ready to step out in rented clothing again?

by Caroline Champlin

Oct 19, 2021

Rent the Runway prepares for its IPO at a time when the logistics around delivery and consumer demand is still in flux.

Shoppers look through Rent the Runway's West Coast flagship store in San Francisco in 2019. The clothing rental business is aiming for a valuation of up to $1.5 billion.

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There's an industry that handles our returns, and it's not pretty

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

Oct 19, 2021

Companies spend a lot of money processing those returns, and many items that are returned won't end up back on the shelf.

An Amazon delivery driver carries boxes into a van outside of a distribution facility in Hawthorne, California.

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Music from the episode

Aminals Baths

Baghdad Sun Apollo Brown

Hours Freddie Joachim

Brave New World The Foreign Exchange

Hard To Say Goodbye Washed Out

Cheap Sunglasses RAC, Matthew Koma

Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin) Maribou State, Khruangbin

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

Richard Cunningham Associate Producer I

Dylan Miettinen Associate Digital Producer

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