Axios PM

June 10, 2024
Happy Monday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Dave Lawler, is 601 words, a 2.5-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.
โ๏ธ Situational awareness: Jury deliberations have begun in Hunter Biden's criminal trial on federal gun charges. Go deeper.
๐ฝ Heads-up: Axios Chicago will be on the red carpet at the James Beard Awards โ the Oscars of food โ today 5โ7 p.m. ET. Tune in.
๐ 1 big thing: One-stop grocery shopping is over
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
The days of getting the weekly groceries at a single store are long gone, Axios' Kelly Tyko and Mimi Montgomery report.
- Why it matters: Consumers are increasingly hitting up multiple grocery stores as they stock the fridge to save money and find exclusive items. Blame it on inflation and the rise of the private store brand.
The Wall Street Journal recently dubbed the end of the era of the one-stop grocery shop as a move to "treasure-hunt grocery shopping."
๐งฎ By the numbers: The average shopper purchased grocery items at 20.7 unique retailers between March 2023 and February 2024, data company Numerator found.
- Grocery shoppers made 8% more trips in 2023 than they did in 2022, according to data AlixPartners shared with Axios.
- Online grocery orders are also increasingly in the mix.
Between the lines: The trend of shopping at multiple stores has been growing along with store loyalty programs.
- "I haven't [one-stop] shopped in years," Claire McDonough of Alexandria, Va., told us.
- McDonough buys staples online at Giant, using coupons and deals for gas discounts, then picks it all up. For everything else, it's Whole Foods โ the money she saves via Giant's discounts goes toward organic dairy, meat and produce, she says.
๐ 2. Apple's AI play: ChatGPT on every iPhone

Apple today unveiled Apple Intelligence โ its plan to harness advances in AI to improve the software that powers the iPhone, Mac and other products, Axios' Ina Fried writes from the launch event at Apple Park in Cupertino, Calif.
- Why it matters: Apple has been the slowest of the major tech companies to detail a generative AI strategy. Today's event was its broadest effort yet to hang the banner of modern AI over its popular products.
What's new: Apple is using generative AI to improve Siri, offer writing tips and create images.
- Apple is also using AI within mail to sort and summarize messages.

Apple customers will have free access to ChatGPT without needing to create an account. For especially challenging queries, Siri will ask users if they'd rather get a response from ChatGPT.
- That's why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (above) was on hand at the announcement.
3. Catch me up


- Gun suicides outpaced gun homicides in the U.S. every year for the past 25 years, CDC figures show. Gun suicides (a record 27,000 in 2022) are far more prevalent than gun homicides (19,700), Axios Ivana Saric reports.
- Sudan's civil war has pushed the number of internally displaced people over 10 million, the UN says.
- Teamsters President Sean O'Brien has requested to speak at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer, as Biden and Trump both seek the union's endorsement, the N.Y. Times scoops.
4. ๐ฟ Martha's Vineyard is running out of pot

It's legal to sell pot in Massachusetts, but illegal to transport it across the ocean. On Martha's Vineyard โ one of the nation's top summer destinations โ that means the only way to sell legal weed is to grow it yourself.
The only commercial grower on the island recently announced it's suspending operations and will close its last dispensary when supplies run out, by September at the latest, AP reports.
- Part of the problem: Visitors want more variety and lower prices, and often bring their own supply over on the ferry.
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