Checking prices carefully, but not always the volume or quantity. Shrinkflation is costing us and that is a Sign of the Times.

Annalise Frank, Axios, explains how international students — a growing piece of Michigan's workforce — can help narrow the state's talent gap.

Even in these tough economic times is expected to be at record levels. All this increased spending is particularly enlightening in that people are making Halloween a priority and that is a Sign of the Times.

The crew recaps the weekend in sports with highlights from the Pistons win, the World Series, and the Wolverine win. As well as the incident in the tunnel with the MSU Spartans.

Jennie Durant explains: Temperature change and extreme weather events, can affect the timing of flowers blooming and the availability of pollinators to pollinate that flower which help plants create fruits that we eat and that other animals eat.

The $10B business of Halloween and $3B of that is in candy. The crew discusses the list of most popular and worst candy as listed by CandyStore.com

Travis just won the World Championship pumpkin contest with his pumpkin named Maverick weighing in at 2,560 pounds. Not only the biggest pumpkin grown this year, Maverick is the largest pumpkin ever grown in North American history.

Empty tables and declining customer satisfaction are becoming more of an issue in the restaurant industry. And because of higher costs and pinched margins, the funds in many cases just aren't available to hire more staff and that is a Sign of the Times.

Fewer kids on college campuses this year is for real as they seek other paths to set themselves up for the future.

Paths that don't have a stop along the way in a college is a Sign of the Times.

The crew talks about the stock market arrows pointing up, gas prices down, the low interest in the COVID booster, and petitioning halloween be moved to the last Saturday of October.