Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

The laws of the office revisited adds Horowitz-Ghazi as the reporter in the episode’s Parkinson’s Law test. The hosts give him one day rather than a week to produce a segment, and the later 2026 framing says the constraint was stressful but taught him to get out, talk to people, and make the story make sense.

Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines adds Horowitz-Ghazi as the source’s field voice for Uniqlo’s self-checkout system. The segment uses his New York store recording to show RFID Checkout as a case where automation can reduce checkout friction instead of making customers scan items one by one.

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is the Planet Money reporter in There’s no business like dough business. The episode follows his reporting from the initial Hyperfixed listener question to Wetzel’s Pretzels corporate strategy and then to Ricky Alam’s franchise operation.

His role is to connect the abstract economics of impulse purchases with field reporting. By interviewing John Fisher, locating Ricky, and checking the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center operation, the source turns a funny storefront cluster into a grounded Retail Site Selection and Impulse Retail Clustering case.

BOOKstore Economics adds Horowitz-Ghazi as the reporter following the Planet Money Book from bookstore buying to launch day. His visit to Carmichael’s Bookstore is not neutral in the story: Fisher Nash says the reporting visit itself increased expected local demand, making the episode a reflexive case in how media attention can affect Bookstore Buying.

Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain adds Horowitz-Ghazi as the reporter following the same book into physical manufacturing. His visits and interviews connect W. W. Norton production decisions to the factory-floor process at Lakeside Book Company, making Book Manufacturing Supply Chain part of the Planet Money book arc.

Connections

• Planet Money - show context.
• Parkinson’s Law and Workplace Incentive Design - deadline and constraint branch added by the new episode.
• Uniqlo and RFID Checkout - retail-technology branch added by the Valentine episode.
• Hyperfixed, Alex Goldman, and Jed Kronfeld - question pipeline.
• Wetzel’s Pretzels, John Fisher, Ricky Alam, and Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center - reporting subjects.
• Impulse Retail Clustering and Shared-Kitchen Satellite Retail - concepts surfaced by the reporting.
• Fisher Nash, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Stephen Pace, W. W. Norton, and Planet Money Book - reporting subjects in the bookstore economics source.
• Bookstore Buying, Book Returnability, Book Print-Run Strategy, and Retail Shelf Placement - publishing and retail concepts surfaced by the reporting.
• Julia Druskin, Tom Mayer, Alex Goldmark, Alex Maiassi, Mito Habe Evans, Lakeside Book Company, Book Manufacturing Supply Chain, Book Printer Selection Risk, and Domestic Book Printing Flexibility - manufacturing subjects and concepts surfaced by the reporting.