The Quirks of Grocery Loyalty

This chapter explores the challenges of maintaining customer loyalty in grocery shopping, blending personal anecdotes with humorous insights. The speakers share their favorite stores and the unique experiences that shape their shopping preferences, ultimately highlighting the delicate balance of trust in the grocery industry.

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Woo boy! It's hot out there, why don't ya grab a nice glass of ice cold lemonade and listen in on everything you did and didn't want to learn about sweat. Are humans the sweatiest of them all? Do fish sweat? What lives in the ecosystem between two people holding hands for the first time? What is it all even for!??

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Sources:

[Truth or Fail]

Sweat sucking spiders supplementing salts

Polar bears follow sweaty paw paths in search for love

A new bacteria-infecting cure for extra stinky sweaty feet

[Trivia Question]

NASA’s ECOSTRESS measures evapotranspiration aka plant sweating

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ecosystem-spaceborne-thermal-radiometer-experiment-on-space-station-ecostress

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/watching-plants-water-use-is-no-sweat-for-ecostress

[Fact Off]

Charles Blagden experiments with “super-sauna” that cooked steak but made humans sweat

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-and-observations-in-a-heated-room-1774/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/106218?seq=1

https://royalsociety.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/