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It's Tuesday January 28th and I'm your host Emily Flippin. We have a lot of

consumer goods industry news to cover over the past week

and joining me today to talk about them is Dan Klein. Dan, thanks for joining.

Oh, thanks for having me. There's a lot to cover and we're going to get to some interesting

bankruptcies and some changes that we're seeing and the way that companies maybe manage

their assets, but first we have to start with the big story or at least what I perceive

to be as the big story and that's McDonald's rolling out a chicken breakfast

biscuit across the nation.

Well I'm doing this episode dressed as this biscuit across the nation.

Well, I'm doing this episode dressed as grimace, so I'm in a big purple suit as far as anybody knows.

So there is a chicken sandwich war going on, and McDonald's is firing sort of the latest

salvo and this is a little bit odd to me though I do live in the south where

the chicken biscuit like you if you go to boj, you can get a chicken biscuit for breakfast and fried chicken as a breakfast food is considered normal.

As someone who's from the Northeast, that is a bit of a culture shock for me.

And what McDonald's is doing is nationwide they're going to

roll out a chicken breakfast biscuit and a chicken breakfast

McGriddle and this is all about having an answer for chick-fil-a and really giving consumers sort of more options

and saying hey you know what if you come to McDonald's at 1030 in the morning you

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