but, the similarity is, there are a lot of women in the locker room, are there? no, reporters are in the locker room but not in the sense you would expect them working side by side. a lot of the similarities are the same. the important thing that s going to come out of this, is that some of the culture that we re hearing about is going to change. it s going to change because there s an awareness about it. just like seven years ago, there wasn t an awareness about the importance of concussions. yeah, yeah. the awareness of treating your teammates the right way i think is the benefit of this miami dolphins situation. i think locker rooms are the wall street of the 80s. i think you ll see changes again. tiki, nice to see you. lee, thank you for a fascinating conversation. get ready to party like 2010. gas prices are at a two-year low. set to keep falling. walmart says lower gas prices are helping its core customer. and walmart this week revealed
gallup says shelling out 700 on gifts and down from last year. stocks may be rallying to consumer highs but they are feeling a strain than in october. i was on a conference call with the walmart ceo yesterday. they are talking about pressures on their core customer. number one pressure jobs and job security ooven even though gas prices have been going their way. mcdonald s its quest to build a fatter bottom line from taking a cue from smash burger who has premium offerings like toppings and cooked to order formaformat. they are growing fast. mcdonald s would change in test restaurants in illinois and california. those mcdonald s you can build your own burger with more than 20 toppings and sauces and find employees wearing chef aprons and using ipads.
they have this new menu that came out that really targeted higher prices, new like refined menu with better beef. now they re trying to focus on that dollar menu. they want to go back to that core customer and target that person. you know that $12 coffeemaker? it might be good. because the price of coffee has fallen but not in toempls what we pay. what s that about? i know you re a fan of starbucks. i am, too. starbucks is not going to drop their prices. wholesale prices have dropped, but because of the reason why is because columbian production is going gang bust ers. but brazilian production in 2012 had 6.6 billion poubds of production of coffee if you could believe it. starbucks, they raised their prices 1% last year and they raised it 17% in 2011. all right. but we addicts continue paying. it is what it is. thank you. straight ahead, could the
it comes from a start-up named square. jack dorisy is a ceo. who s the primary user? the core customer? it s really any small business in the united states. you can imagine you know, hairdressers. tax accountants. small business owners. you know, any sort of professional service like a piano teacher or golf instructor. it makes money by getting a cut of the transaction. we take a fee of 2.75% and pay the banks and credit card companies out of that, so the user just pays that amount. setting up requires you download the free square app. you ll have to input info including your banking account number. brandon has a small cupcake store in san francisco. he said square solved when he
money. starbucks has done something pretty innovative here where can you pay for your products using your blackberry or iphone. what they have done is created a digital version of the gift card so if you have the app it s very easy to set up. once you get to the register, you see the barcode reader here. the barcode is right here on the app, the digital version of your gift card. boom, just swipe it, and your coffee is paid for. now the mobile payments industry is something that is really growing a lot of the one of the hottest silicon valley startups is a company called square. they have created an attachment that goes into the head phone jack of the iphone, and it allows anybody, and i mean anybody, to accept a credit card payment, whether you re a small business or even a baby-sitter. we spoke to the ceo of the company, jack dorsey. who is the primary user of the square? who would the core customer be? you can imagine, you know, hairdressers, tax accountants. we send you a reader