Crumbl faces franchise crisis as sales slide
Average store sales cratered from $1.84M to $1.14M in three years, customer visits down 32 percent year over year, the math that expansion was supposed to hide.
- 02Barilla acquires GOODLES mac & cheese for $750M
Barilla paid for a $190M revenue business because the better-for-you margin holds, but only if you control the growth pace and the franchise model doesn't.
CPG launch scanner - 03Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall
Claude pulled Georgia vote data from behind a paywall, surfacing the awkward truth that AI training doesn't recognize paywalls as friction, only as data, and that's a problem no TOS will solve.
Investing.com Markets2026-10-26 - 04Wonder Plans IPO and Aims to Be Fully Autonomous by 2040
Wonder is running the IPO playbook while betting that Americans will rent automated kitchens like they rent scooters, a subscription model that works only if the labor math stays broken long enough to justify the capex.
PYMNTS2026-10-26 - 05REM Makes Its Ambitious Debut at City of Dreams Macao
REM's Macao debut banks on the suite as lifestyle anchor, not room-service afterthought, positioning City of Dreams against the regional glut of tower-stacking convention plays and testing whether hospitality has learned to sell experience instead of occupancy.
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