“Skip medical school. Spend $1B instead” — Walgreens launches 700 doctor’s offices. Rocket Mortgage’s IPO. Kroger’s surprise meat strategy.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business, News, Finance, Pop Culture, Business News, Tech

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The lending artist formerly known as Quicken Loans has filed to IPO, calling themselves “Rocket Companies”. Walgreens is quitting medical school and pursuing a $1B investment in 700 doctor’s offices instead. And Kroger’s figured out a surprise strategy to boost sales of its own plant-based meat brand: Stick it next to real meat.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack, and this is Snacks.
0:04.0	Daily, it is Friday, July 10th.
0:06.6	I just taught River the profit puppy how to sit and stay.
0:09.9	Beautiful.
0:10.9	Good finishing move before I head into the weekend.
0:12.9	Fetching into the weekend, Jack, first story, what do we got for this T-B-O-Y?
0:17.0	This is the best one yet.
0:19.1	Walgreens is skipping seven years of medical school, gonna spend a billion dollars instead.
0:23.4	So what's easier the way you put it, Jack?
0:24.8	The company announced surprisingly bad earnings, but a surprisingly interesting move.
0:29.4	Walgreens is adding 700 doctors offices.
0:32.3	Yes, they're pharmacists.
0:33.5	That's seven million minutes of waiting times we did the calculation for you.
0:36.5	Second story, Jack.
0:37.5	Kroger just revealed a juicy secret about plant-based meat sales.
0:41.3	Thirds out if you stick pea protein-based burger patties in the meat aisle, you end up selling
0:45.3	a lot more of them.
0:46.3	If your sales are struggling, just trick consumers to thinking it's something else.
0:50.7	The old slippery pea move.
0:51.7	Is that the slippery pea move, Jack?
0:53.2	Third and final story.
0:54.2	The unicorn of the day is rocket mortgage, Detroit's combination of Wall Street and Silicon
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