🐸 “Stop scanning my mangoes” — Self-Checkout’s leapfrogging. New York Times’ mealkit. Adobe’s $20B acqui-baby.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It’s not just you… The number of self-checkout machines have doubled in grocery stores, but they’re also facing “The Leapfrog Effect.” The New York Times’ newest product isn’t a newspaper, it’s a meal kit. And Adobe just dropped $20B to acquire website design startup Figma, because it’s a digital thing making digital things (for digital things). $NYT $ADBE $WMT Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack.
0:02.3	It's Friday, the real Friday, September 16th, and today's pod is the best one yet.
0:08.6	It's a T-boy.
0:09.8	It's a total T-boy. Jack, remember that train strike that we mentioned yesterday?
0:13.8	A deal was reached yesterday, so there's no railroad strike.
0:17.6	Jack, remember that Ethereum crypto merge that we mentioned two days ago?
0:21.7	It successfully merged yesterday with no glitches.
0:24.8	Jack, remember that Pickleball championship that your mom is playing in?
0:28.8	She won't stop talking about it.
0:30.1	She won!
0:31.2	With no e-bike involved.
0:33.2	It's a T-boy, Jack.
0:34.4	What's our first story for this Friday of Friday?
0:36.4	The most commonly used robot these days is the self-checkout kiosk at the grocery store.
0:41.5	But self-checkout innovation is about to get leap-progged.
0:45.0	Our second story is that Adobe just dropped $20 billion to buy Figma,
0:49.2	a design software company.
0:50.6	Because it's a digital thing for making digital things.
0:53.5	Our third and final story is The New York Times.
0:55.6	Their latest product isn't journalism.
0:57.6	It's not even a newspaper.
0:58.7	Uh-uh, what is it, Jack?
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