The real home of Stranger Things’ Byers family is for sale in Georgia. The house is listed for $300k, but reportedly needs serious renovations.

🎧 On the go? Listen to today’s podcast to hear about our current butter problem, the 2011 Norwegian butter shortage, Avatar’s return, and more.

This holiday season, grandma’s favorite sugar cookies might be missing a crucial ingredient.

While inflation has infiltrated much of the grocery store, few items have been affected more than butter, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, could spell a holiday disaster.

Rising costs for feed and labor have led farmers to reduce their cattle herds, causing a series of ripple effects:

Making matters worse, butter churns usually produce most of their butter in the first half of the year, storing it in preparation for the holidays (AKA baking szn).

Some might say we’re nearing a meltdown:

Butter producers are telling retailers not to offer heavy discounts during the holidays in case they can’t replenish supply, and some bakers are now hoarding butter to build up their own “butter army” for the holidays, per WSJ.

On top of all this, the latest foodie trend, with 10.5B+ views on TikTok, is charcuterie-style “butter boards.”

Of course, a solution to all this would be turning to margarine.

JK, we’re not insane.

Haha: Clips of a new trombone rhythm game are popping off. It’s probably not what Beethoven intended, but it is incredible.

FedEx will hike delivery rates and make several cost-cutting moves in 2023. The company shook the market last week after reporting global declines in package volume.

Epic Games built an ultra-lifelike digital alter ego of NBA player Luka Doncic, dubbed Luk.AI, to take over his TikTok.

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, is launching an initiative to study social media’s harms and identify ways to improve.

James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar returns to theaters today ahead of its upcoming sequel in December.

Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” averaged 13m viewers, per Nielsen, though Amazon — paying ~$1B/yr. for the streaming rights — claims it got 15.3m.

Kittyhawk, Google co-founder Larry Page’s electric air taxi startup, is done. Wisk, its air taxi partnership with Boeing, is still on.

Instagram is testing a filter that will prevent users from DMing each other unsolicited nudes.

Tesla recalled nearly 1.1m cars due to quick-closing windows that could pinch fingers. It will fix the issue with an over-the-air update.

Digital marketing time-savers: Peep this megacompilation of case studies from Trendsters who know their shit, including keys to six-figure product launches, nailing TikTok ads, and more.

There are few things more awkward than a self-checkout machine announcing to the whole store that you’ve placed an “unexpected item in the bagging area,” requiring a human worker to remedy the situation.

Even as two-thirds of shoppers say the machines have failed them, food retailers are adding more tech to the in-store grocery experience, with self-checkout front and center.

The machines, with $14k-$40k price tags, can cut costs for retailers and may be necessary — grocery employee turnover was 48% in 2021. It also offers customers some extra speed and reduced human interaction.

We, for one, are pro-self-checkout because of the hilarious comedy sketches it has inspired.

All you need to start scrutinizing your customers and competitors is a keen eye and some good WiFi.

Take HubSpot’s five-piece market research kit and start competitively analyzing like a beast.

Keep your product in focus with these frameworks.

… Recs to pair with your Friday margs, Saturday cup o’ joe, or Sunday bacon soda.

🪐 On this day: In 1846, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered Neptune at the Berlin Observatory.

🧠 That’s interesting: Why we get distracted — AKA “mind wandering.”

🎧 Podcast: Find out how Abstrakt CEO Greg Reffner learned to prioritize and manage up on this episode of Blissful Prospecting.

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