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Sugar Rush

Consumer · Commerce · Culture

Monday, May 18

Updated 8:02am PT

Brian Sugar

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Young Hollywood wages stay frozen while grocery costs climb back to 2023 peaks, a tax on waiting that hits hardest when you can't move. Jack Harlow added six dates to the Monica Tour because one song earned the room, which is how commerce works when the original actually lands. The margin lives in who still gets paid, and who still does the work.

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What NextEra and Dominion's giant utility merger means for your electric bill

NextEra and Dominion's merger consolidates utility monopoly at the exact moment Americans stopped trusting their power bills, which is not a coincidence.

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    Lululemon hits back at its founder after months of attacks, saying he's just jealous

    Lululemon's public pivot to defending against Chip Wilson is a founder's nightmare, the moment when the company you built becomes too big to let you keep talking about it.

    MarketWatch
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    Stephen Colbert to Host Wrap Party Following Final 'Late Show' Taping With 'Fired and Festive' Dress Code

    Colbert's final taping ends not with silence but with a wrap party invitation marked "Fired and Festive," converting a professional exit into cultural event. Late night learned long ago to script its own endings.

    Variety
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    Elon Musk vows to appeal OpenAI verdict, saying there's 'no question' Sam Altman enriched himself

    Musk's appeal of the OpenAI loss is a public record of a man who started the company, left it, and now argues the person who stayed enriched himself, the suit as grudge formalized.

    Business Insider
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    Chinese economy stalls on oils

    China's chemical output collapsed while property stayed predictably broken, signaling a hard pivot toward rationing and long-term scarcity planning. Australia's steel story just got darker.

    Macrobusiness
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Sugar Rush is the daily commerce + culture brief from Sugar Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of consumer, commerce, and culture.

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