Unilever hates virgin-plastic, Harley’s e-bike isn’t connecting, and Walmart tries to return its ecommerce acquisitions

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The owner of Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever is making an epic sustainability pledge: cut 400K tons of virgin plastic per year. Harley designed an electric bike to desperately snag millennial customers, but it turns out they’re not interested. And after diving deep into ecommerce, Walmart is undoing the parts that are too unprofitable.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 daily.
0:04.8	It is T-boy toothed, the October 8th.
0:07.3	We're bringing a good one.
0:08.3	We got three incredible stories.
0:10.3	Jack, is this the best snack daily we've ever done?
0:12.4	The best one, yeah.
0:13.4	We're kicking it off with Unilever, which is an enormous European company that's going
0:17.4	aggressively green.
0:18.4	It owns Ben and Jerry's and is cutting 400,000 tons of plastic per year.
0:23.8	And it actually thinks that's going to boost its profits.
0:26.7	Second story that's get right to it, Harley Davidson.
0:29.4	It also wants to go green and it's been an electric bike that just isn't working.
0:34.1	We're looking at why people aren't that into you right now, Harley.
0:37.3	Third and final story, Walmart bought a bunch of e-commerce companies, and now it's asking
0:41.4	about the return policy because it doesn't want them anymore.
0:44.2	The first victim here, Bonobo's khakis, always the case.
0:47.8	But let's get right to hashtag T-boy Tuesday, which is right now.
0:52.4	Thank you Jack for kicking it off.
0:53.9	We noticed last week on Snacks that Corona was releasing a heart-selter.
0:58.0	And the name, really boy name, Corona Heart Seltzer.
1:01.2	Yeah, that was pretty brutal.
1:02.2	Corona could have done way better on this kind of thing.
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