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On Thursday, March 7th, I invited my co-presenter Tom to the studio for a secret challenge.

Hi Tom.

Hey, Alice.

So, do you have any idea why we're here?

I do not.

It's a complete mystery to me what I am doing in the studio.

So the topic is Timu, which is this up-and-coming retailing Beham-Oth,

which is competing very aggressively to win over customers in America.

We thought it might be fun to have a race between it and the other Beham-Off retailer in America,

which is Amazon.

So we're going to order some bits from each retailer.

You're going to take Amazon.

I'm going to take Timu.

And we're going to see who

wins. I've made a competition. I'm going to send you a link. Here we go. Goody King,

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