Hey Snackers,
From Dalgona coffee to frog bread, TikTok-viral foods embody the creative renaissance of Gen Z's quarantine. The best one yet: Baby Yoda pancake cereal. Taste cuteness, you must.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq closed over 10K for the first time ever, lifted by Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft which hit all-time highs Tuesday. Combined, they're worth almost $5T. Tesla also hit a record price, becoming the world's 2nd most valuable carmaker (just shy of Toyota).
Speak now or forever hold your pizza... Back in May, Uber was courting Grubhub for an engagement that would marry the two food delivery giants into a market leader (surpassing DoorDash) — now a European stud has swooped in to steal Uber's thunder.
Parents prefer this marriage... US regulators aren't so thrilled about the consolidations coming out of the hyper-competitive delivery wars (where the best promo code wins).
This defeats the purpose of the consolidation plan... Grubhub and Uber hoped to merge to reduce aggressive price competition (and "promiscuous" customers). But the Just Eat/Grubhub merger combines two leaders in separate markets — domestic competition stays the same. No delivery fee-jacking is expected as a result of this deal. This merger is more about cost synergies (lowering duplicate costs) than revenue ones (being able to increase prices).
When the weed killer is also the weed grower... The green thumb takes on a new meaning. Scotts Miracle Gro stock is up 84% since mid-March, when the lockdown-driven home makeover frenzy took hold. Since decking out the house extends to the yard, Scotts' lawn/garden care sales have surged (pesticides are the rosé of summer gardening):
Side hustle smokes the main hustle... A few years ago, Scotts decided it wanted a piece of the cannabis market (minus the cannabis). Enter...
In the cannabis gold rush, you can be a miner or a shovel-maker... Cannabis producers are the "miners" who take the biggest risk: their success depends on striking gold (cannabis sales). Scotts makes the "shovels". They get a smaller upside with less risk, but enjoy more consistent success along the way — as long as there's still a rush.
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