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23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

Kteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already left the platform. “I think they hit on something viral, which was the concept of where you’ve come from. People found that so fascinating. But once you know that information, you’re not going to come back five years later and pay for a subscription,” he says.Sumit Nagpal, a serial entrepreneur in the health tech space and a self-described early adopter of 23andMe, says he was among the company’s subscribers but eventually stopped logging into the online platform. He says the reports didn’t…
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WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

On a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new in the fruit section: a single pineapple packaged in a pink and forest-green box. A picture on the front showed the pineapple cut open, revealing rose-colored flesh. Touted as the “jewel of the jungle,” the fruit was the Pinkglow pineapple, a creation of American food giant Fresh Del Monte. It cost $9.99, a little more than double the price of a regular yellow pineapple.I put the box in my cart, snapped a picture with my phone, and shared the find with my foodie…
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