Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Frequent travelers Rafat Ali of Skift and Meg Riley of the Martin Agency lament the industry's record levels of passive-aggression -- and how technology and innovation are giving customers more leverage and new choices.

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Kroger. Whole Foods. Wegman's. Publix. Ahold Giant. Lidl. Aldi. Trader Joe's. AMAZON! Old regional monopolies, be damned. The supermarket industry is in an arms race to scratch and claw for single-digit profit margins. Why is this otherwise sedate and mature business suddenly in hyper-expansion mode? Is it a bubble? Consider the case of Richmond, VA -- perhaps the country's most supermarketed city. Twitter @FullDRadio

Finally: veteran investing columnist Jason Zweig of the WSJ agrees to come on Full Disclosure. He talks about the markets, his career, Wall Street's rampant bullshattery and his handy little book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary. We're @FullDRadio on Twitter and Facebook.com/FullDRadio ...

Tess Vigeland, longtime Marketplace host, left her job, sold her belongings and is now traveling the world to reinvent. She authored the book Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want.

We patched her in from Vietnam.

Hyperinflation. Empty store shelves. A thriving black market for smugglers and dummy businesses. An angry street. Crippling debt. Five-cent gasoline.

Welcome to the dystopian economy of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez. Craig Shealy of BlackCreek Group guest hosts.

We're joined by Paul Barrett of BW, author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun; and investor Craig Shealy, a lifelong hunter who owns several guns but refuses to join the NRA.

Venture capitalist Mamoon Hamid, general partner and co-founder at Social Capital talks about his path to the industry, the path forward for technology, Yahoo, Tesla and the necessary audacity of startups like Uber and Airbnb.

My guests are Tarek Masoud, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and co-author of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (2015); and Roberta Oster-Sachs, a former NBC News producer who covered the 9/11 attacks and frequented Paris.

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, co-founders of ad giant (Publicis) Kaplan Thaler, talk about the state of advertising and their national bestseller GRIT to Great. Available on NPR One, iTunes, Stitcher and SoundCloud.

Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street Internet analyst who reinvented as a digital news mogul. On NPR One, WRIR, Stitcher and iTunes.

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