Hey there, it’s Friday, so it only makes sense for you to be back for another week of weird retail news. As usual, retailers got up to a lot of interesting stuff, and as usual, we have all the tea.
For instance, one purported Chipotle employee named “Lucy” is getting a lot of heat from customers on Yelp…for stealing their husbands? Meanwhile, some ice cream shop employees have decided to take part in a really weird social media challenge that involves lobbing soft serve at each other.
- British Airways resorted to serving its passengers chicken from an airport KFC on a 12-hour flight after a catering mishap.
- A Chipotle in Florida has been flooded with bad Yelp reviews blaming an employee called Lucy for “stealing” married men.
- Ice cream shop employees are throwing soft serve at each other as part of a TikTok challenge.
And our loyal newsletter readers will remember a juicy bit of “news,” which sadly is completely false. You know when we told you that Ryan Gosling is disguising himself as a barista at random coffee shops across the US as part of a Barbie promotion? We know Barbieland isn’t real, as much as we all wish it was, and sorry to disappoint, but nor is Ryan Gosling showing up as your barista…at least not anytime soon.
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