Hello my fellow Mobians it is I Elias Acorn, King of the house of Acorn with fresh intel from Robtoniks Robotropolis. The dastardly Robotonik forces his overlander subjects to eat nothing but liquid soy feed in order to save money for his cruel schemes, but it seems his Soylent factories are starting to run out. One over lander notices:
Shortages, discounts at supermarkets, no refunds, service delays. Is this it?
To which this astute Overlander noticed:
When I posted my concerns about their financial health 3 months ago, soylent_team replied saying:
We promise we aren't going anywhere. There have been some bumps this year, but hang on with us, we promise we are here to stay! [1]
In August, their CEO said:
We have integrated and created efficiencies through our shared service platform for our brands over the course of 2023 and 2024 allowing the Company to now experience tremendous retail expansion, topline growth and higher margins. [...] If you look at any of our portfolio companies we are winning because we have extremely unique products and brands with defensive moats and scaling distribution [2]
However, their accountants sounded less upbeat when they wrote in a recent filing:
substantial doubt exists related to the Company's ability to meet its obligations as they become due within one year [3]
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/1fq0sju/comment/lp3iwpu/?context=8
[3] See "NOTE 2 β GOING CONCERN" here.
This overlander wonders how Doctor Robtonik's mean bean soylent machine could have ever run into problems:
Im sure eating nothing but soy feed and motor oil is nutritious
This sad overlander is so dependent on the soy feed he is now unable to eat normal food:
While Robtonik serves other forms of gruel to his subjects it seems they are somehow even worse then the dreeded soylent
This is why in the Kingdom of Knothole we only eat the finest real foods like Uncle Chuck's chili dogs rather then this technological abomination. Source Speed Freedom Fighters may you win in your quest to free these poor souls
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This is like that time in DS9 when they destroyed the ketracel white factory!!!
!trekkies
Who could have guessed that trying to elbow away shelf space in the supermarket from way bigger companies wouldn't work? They're pulling in tens of billions of dollars/yr because they're actually really good at all that business stuff in a market where the profit margins are pretty narrow.
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i'm not sure why they chose to expand into retail like that? didn't they have a good thing going doing direct to customer sales? who goes to a gas station and casually buys one soylent?
even though people make fun of them, they had a strong brand recognition.
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Redditors. But apparently that wasn't a big enough market.
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