Kaf I Am six. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Moe Kelly. I am not Mo Kelly. You probably can tell that by now because Moe is out of town. I am Tiffany Hobbes with you tonight, filling in for Moe, who's back on Monday, being Bope, air horns, Bio ba Po. We're gonna be fine, don't worry. Everything is gonna go justice planned, maybe even better. We're gonna do great. So it's practically a lady's night takeover.
The guys are still here. They're still here. They're there, They're in the shadows, but I'm here. Producer Keanna is here. Hello. Nautica de la Cruz will be here to do her Friday Nights with Nautica as normal, and again Steph is on the boards. We're definitely hopefully going to get some print because today is Prince's birthday. I put in a special request. That's what Moe would have done in the spirit of mo. We're going to play some prints for sure, and then we have the Mark Ronner in the
KFI News booth. I got you back. You're going to do great back and the front, and you will have a variation of the Runner Report around eight fifty a little more casual this week, a little more casual. So we're going to get to it. I'm usually here on Fridays anyway, so it's not necessarily uncommon to hear my voice, but it may be for some of you to hear it at length. Right. I'm also here on Wednesdays. I do the Viral Load, which is the segment that is weekly with
MO where we get into all things social media. There will be some stories today about social media. From social media, we're going to get into local stories. We've put together a lot of interesting news items for you, including local stories. Of course, what are the consequences of California raising the minimum wage to twenty dollars. There's an app that'll help you find the cheapest Big Mac in all of your city. We need that there are new high rise
apartments on skid Row for people experiencing homelessness. We'll get some cool features about those apartments and why you and I won't be able to afford them if we tried. TJ Max popular store is putting body cameras on their employees. Question Mark, we'll find out, and a popular La grocery chain that thinks that you really enjoy the taste of sunblock so much so that you'll want to enjoy
it in your smoothie. What a very La story. We're going to get into all of that, but before we do, I want to say again hi to producer Keianna. Hello. Hello, She's been wonderful and want to make sure that I highlight that because I hit her just a couple of minutes ago with some really sad breaking news. So before we get into this story or into the stories, the sad news that just broke is that the Apollo eight astronaut William Anders was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Washington
just earlier today, and this has been confirmed by his son. William Anders was ninety years old. He's famous for being one of the three to walk on the Moon, one of the first people ever to walk on the Moon, and he also took that beautiful picture of Earth kind of in a half moon shape from the lunar orbit that was entitled Earth Rising, Earth Rise,
and that picture is something that has been seen since the nineteen sixties. The posters made about it It's been everywhere, and his name has been synonymous with spacexploration and that sort of innovation. And unfortunately today he was piloting a small plane that apparently he may have been at this point the only person inside of the details are still emerging. The USGS again has confirmed that William Anders has
passed. So we're definitely sending our thoughts and prayers and condolences to his family and all who knew and respected him. I know I did. What a sad story to start with, and as details and more information emerges about that story, we'll be sure to bring it to you. Let's get into something a little bit more light, right, let's move away from that again. Sun block. You're thinking about maybe enjoying a summer day out. The temperature
is warming up, as it does during this season. The sun is out, it may not be out. June gloom is there. This is a pivotal time that we all should be focusing on our skincare You should be wearing sunblock, whether the sun is out or it's not. That's just a non sequitor. However, there's a little strange twist to this sun block urgency. There is a popular grocery store Aerwine. You might have heard of it. There are ten stores in this LA based chain, and Arawine is known to
be on the priceier end of grocers. They have smoothies that are upwards of twenty dollars. They really break the bank when it comes to their goods, and carrying their bags is more or less a social status, a symbol of social status. Well, Arawin has partnered with another brand called Vacation aptly named Vacation And what does vacation do? Vacation actually manufactures sun block and other skincare
goods. Vacation and Arowin the grocery store have teamed up not to offer you a limited edition sunblock, but instead to offer you, you, beautiful patrons in southern California, a sunblock flavored smoothie. What a sunblock flavored smoothie? You heard me right? You will be essentially eating something that tastes in their minds like sunblock. Now why would you want to do that? Right?
Well, Arilon and Vacation believe that you enjoy the taste of sunblock when it's when you're sweating and it gets into your mouth on accident or you're in the ocean and it starts to move about your skin, or you accidentally somehow get it on your face in a way that ingests. That causes you to ingest some block that you love it so much that you are willing to fork over money to buy a food item that tastes like sunblock. Now, I, like anyone, am nostalgic, and it comes to things that are related to
summer. Sunblock immediately puts me in the summer feeling. I feel like I'm at the beach. I can be wearing sunblock and walking around my neighborhood and it just makes me feel good. But I don't want to eat sunblock. Airline feels like you do vacation. The sunblock manufacturer assured Araline that you want
to taste sunblock. We're going to get into what the ingredients are in this smoothie, how much this smoothie is for members and non members, because you have to be a member of Arawine to really enjoy the fruits of this grocery store, right, no pun intended. And we're going to also get into how long this sunblock flavored smoothie will be available. We'll also talk a little bit about TJ Max arming employees with body cameras and a store owner who took
it upon herself to stop a thief in her tracks. Will have audio from both of those stories when we come back. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. Last we talked about in the previous segment is a smoothie introduced by luxury grocery store Arawan. You might have heard of it. You might have seen the bags carried by people as status
symbols. I know I've seen them. You see people packing their lunches and making sure that the insignia from the grocery store is showing that it's front facing. You want to be seen carrying these bags, right, They're the pricey grocery store that puts whole foods to shame. Well. Arawan and another brand, a manufacturer of some block called Vacation, very aptly named, have teamed
up to introduce a sun block themed smoothie. Yes, and so I was get into the details of the ingredients of this smoothie and here they are again. It's available in all ten Arewon locations. The ingredients include a refleshing blend of coconut banana sounds, good so far right alovera Tahitian vanilla. That's what makes it so expensive, the Tahitian vanilla, blue pool water, Spiroalna,
pul water Spirillina. I don't know about you, but whenever I've accidentally had some pool water, it's not something that I've wanted to add to anything that's going into my body. I'm trying to get it back out as soon as possible. And a sprinkling of sea salt that makes it fancy, and it says that one can expect the same leisure enhancing experience as Vacations Classic Lotion with
every sip. They released this information on their Instagram because that's where brands break their newest products social media, and they appeal to all of their followers again, wanting to create a sense of nostalgia. You like sunblock, so why not drink it? I can think of many reasons, but for them, they feel that you are willing to spend a modest in their minds nine dollars
if you are a non member. So if you are not a member of Arawan, you will be forking over nine dollars for this smoothie, and that is a deal. They want you to know that that is a huge deal because they're normal smoothies, they're non vacation themed smoothies can cost an upward of twenty dollars. Twenty dollars, so the sunscreen smoothie is actually a deal, a deal nine dollars and if you are a member, you can try your
first smoothie for free until next Friday, June fourteenth. So if you are just interested in, you know, trying this thing out or having someone taste test it, maybe you're nil Sevadra and you want to do it for the Fork Report. It is nine dollars if you're a member and it is or excuse me, a non member and it is free if you are a member. Let me know how you like it. You can follow me on Instagram find me there at tiff Hobbs on here because I love to know what you
think of the Vacation Leisure Enhancing Sunscreen Smoothie at Arawan. I don't think i'll be getting that mark. Are you getting that? What color is the pool water? One? It is Spirrilina blue, Okay, not yellow? Then we're okay, exactly exactly. I mut this doesn't make me feel good. It doesn't make me want to run to Arawine. It actually makes me want to call their corporate office and say, what are you thinking? This is
crazy. But it's all about branding, and it's all about what's gonna go viral, and they know that people are gonna get that smoothie and probably put it into their Stanley cup to keep it, you know, keep it cold. And it's the most la thing you can do. You want to go viral, you take that pool water one, you put a baby roof in it. The chocolate enhanced Yes leisure enhancing sunscreen smoothie. The chocolate costs you
an extra couple of dollars. Staying with what's happening locally, if you are a shopper at some of these big box clothing stores and home goods stores like TJ Max or Home Goods and Marshals, you might have noticed that many of the items are locked up behind glass cases, everything from certain items of clothing to handbags to perfume whom perhaps there are other items that you're interested in that
you have to get an employee over to on lock well. As we know, and as we've covered here on the Mokelly Show, those are effects of the rampant uptick in theft in retail theft, and TJ max has a parent company that is hoping to curb shoplifting with a new tactic that is often seen on police and other law enforcement officials body cameras body cameras. Tj Max's parent company, TJX, which also parents home Goods and Marshals, announced that it
will be arming certain employees, not all. They want to make sure they make that distinction, certain employees with body cameras in an effort to crack down on all of this thievery. The owner said that body cameras will be worn to deter thieves. And what employees will get to wear these body cameras Not the sales associate actually checking you out, not the one unlocking the place where you try on your clothes back there, or the one trying to give you
your perfume. No, the loss prevention associates will be trained and able to wear those cameras while they're in the store. TJX actually said that the associates who are eligible to wear the cameras will be the loss prevention associates, which makes me wonder, what is the eligibility criteria? What separates the loss prevention associates from the associates on the floor doing the other day to day operations.
They're all there, and we have another story coming up about an associate who's not a lost prevention associate, but who took matters into her own hands to reclaim some of the items that were being thefted. But these loss prevention associates will be wearing the cameras while they are in the store. So can anyone obtain the security footage? Answer is no, Only police and other law enforcement officials will be able to end legal representatives will be able to obtain this footage
with a subpoena. So you can't go ask for the footage for your Instagram, You can't go ask for the footage for your own just records. No, you have to be a law enforcement official or a lawyer. And if you have that, or you're in that sort of situation and you're probably already behind the gun, as they say, you're already probably guilty. What's the company's main goal again, Well, they say that this implementation is to promote
a safer environment for all shoppers as well as their associates. If you've ever been in these stores or any store as there is a theft going down, then you know, like me that it can be somewhat of a paralytic. You freeze and you assess, and you don't really know what to do.
You're really just an onlooker. How many of us are going to step in and try and thwart physically or even verbally some sort of altercation or thievery and process, No, we don't do that, as much as you may feel you want to, or you might think you could while you're in the shower and you're rehearsing the lines you might say to a thief, and process, most times, you're not going to do anything. I know I haven't, I've looked, I've shaken my head, but I'm not going to put my
body between a thief and that front door. So this is what they're aiming to do. They're aiming to create a safer environment for the employees and the other shoppers. They also hope that this will lessen crime, of course,
and be a preventative measure so that crime just stops altogether. They're hoping that this will be enough of a deterrent that these loss prevention associates will have this camera on the front, and these potential thieves will see that and think to themselves, Hmm, I shouldn't do this here because they're going to see my face. Which makes me wonder, what are the cameras in the store doing. Their cameras in all of these stores, their cameras often at some of
the registers. What are these cameras doing that these body cameras may do differently or better. Instead of perhaps arming these people with cameras, there may be another strategy to stop this sort of theft. I don't know what it is, but it feels like a lot of this is very reactive, and I know they want this to be an effort of proactivity, but it feels kind of redundant, and it feels like it could set these loss prevention associates up
for situations that could escalate. Again, this isn't an effort to crack down. There are other stores like Target that are implementing a new sort of strategy called true scan that will detect if bar codes aren't scanned when a customer is in a self checkout line, self checkout lines, or a completely different animal altogether. We'll get into another story we come back about the woman who stopped a thief in process. We're gonna hear what happened and we'll dissect that story
in a little bit. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. Shortly we have Friday Nights with Nautica coming up. Just saw her walking around. Can't wait to hear what she's gonna bring us. It's always informative. I last was talking to you about this Tjmax situation and all of these security measures, all of these new strategies are being implemented across different stores, small and large, mom and pop, brick and mortar,
whatever it is to curb this uptick in theft. We're in Socow. It is likely you have seen theft happen in front of you, or you've been a victim of theft yourself, and I'll tell you a little bit about my own experience with that in a moment. But this crackdown on retail theft again is causing a lot of innovation, and it may be technological, it may be more digitally based. Well, there's a woman who took it upon herself to go old school with her theft prevention. Steph. Can we play
the clip you want to get to give me my jacket right now. I'm not gonna have you steal it from my store. Give it to me. You on video, and you are going to get arrested, you know. Give it that my jacket right now. You're to give me back my jacket. Here, give me the other one jump steal from my floor. Give me the other one. That is, let me look at your back. Yeah, well that's let me look at your back. So that's the voice of Amber Jolly asking for items back. Amber Jolly is a store manager at
a store in Santa Monica right over here. It's called grammar Cy Boo Tique. And this confrontation happened in April in an alley outside of the store. The other voice you heard was the thief, and this thief attempted to steal five hundred and fifty dollars worth of clothing, and that included three jackets worth
more than five hundred and fifty dollars in total. So just under what would be what it's within the parameters what is kind of uncommonly known as being allowed as far as the amount of money that can be theft or amount of items that can be thefted, but this five hundred and fifty dollars was not going to go away with ease. Amber Jolly, this store manager, as you heard, got physical with this thief. The thief is unnamed, but Amber
Jolly actually grabbed the items started chasing her, she says. She says, quote, I chased her because I needed the jackets back. Either I have to explain why I didn't get them back, or it's a total loss for us. Amber Jolly's like, look, this is my job, and I'm not going to stand by and just let someone come in and think that they are entitled to the goods within this store. She put all things aside. The risk the ROI for her was right there. She said, I don't
care what happens. I'm getting these jackets back, and she did. She got two of the three items back. The third one wherever it went, didn't come back to the store. But Amber Jolly was pleased with her ability to reclaim the two items because she is like many people in this city, many people around the country, if not the world at this point, because it's just it's all over the place. But we're talking about a local story here. Many people around the city are just fed up, fed up with
retail theft. Amber Jolly says that the woman was not arrested, she was not even located after she walked off. At the end of the confrontation. Amber went on to file a police report, but she was told, unfortunately by Santa Monica PD, that little could be done. Here in lies my story. I have now been, as of this previous weekend, a victim for the third time of a my car being broken into. My car was broken into for a third time just this past Saturday. I didn't have anything
in there. The thieves or thief didn't take anything, but they broke out my window, which is a huge inconvenience, one of the little small windows that are usually broken out to get to your lock or try to get to your lock, leaving glass everywhere in my locked parking garage at my apartment complex, which is supposed to be secured by video camera right digital deterrents. I called the police. I called two police stations in my area, and I
was told essentially little can be done on security camera. Is this person who has covered up all you can see is his eyes, so little can be done. I in my apartment complex also had my car broken into all and when I went to the leasing office to ask for security cameras, they said that they didn't have security cameras anywhere in the complex for the privacy of their tenets. So in my complex there is no security, no security nothing. Do you feel secure? No? Are you looking to move at this point?
I mean, once I get out on my lease, that's it. How can you live comfortably without security? That's our living situation, shopping and being an employee or a manager and owner of a store of a business. How can you be secure or feel secure if you know that people can essentially come in and take what they want without repercussion in the majority of the time.
So again Amber Jolly says that you know, it's terrible, and she's also really incensed that this woman was saying if you touch me, if you touch me, and it's illegal to touch me, and kind of saying all these catchphrases, bus phrases that people have been armed with or arming themselves with because they know that they are largely un touchable. When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit more about what's going on around southern California.
We're going to get into some news about fast food restaurants and again, why you need the app that tells you where to find the cheapest Big Mac If that's your thing. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty California fast food restaurants. Oh man, do you like fast food? Do you find yourself going through the drive through absent mindedly or
for whatever reason? Is that your thing? It may not be. No, A lot more people are cooking at home or trying to cook at home because the price of groceries has also shot up, and so has food at fast food restaurants. And let's find out why. Essentially two months ago, California increase the minimum wage to twenty dollars. Now there's an a total data and evidence that reflects the casualties in the wake of this significant wage bump.
Not only have prices at major brands like Chipotle, McDonald's and even our beloved In and Out, which does not like to change its prices. They like to keep their bottom line and everything else very low. But let me tell you, In and Out's gone up about twenty five cents fifty cents in the last few months. And I'm not happy about that, and I want to talk to a manager, but until then, let's talk about this story. So, these major brands have all bumped up their prices since April first.
The California Business and Industrial Alliance CABA, for short, says that another casualty besides prices in increasing is that nearly ten thousand jobs have been cut. Ten thousand people have been removed from their positions at fast food fast food restaurants in the wake of minimum wage going up to twenty dollars in the last two months. So if we're just spreading it out evenly, that's five thousand jobs per month. That's a big hit. In California. That's a huge hit.
And because of that there are all sorts of ideas and all sorts of predictions about what's to come. Well, CABYA actually took out a mock obituary in the USA today which essentially made rest in peace or or put to bed the idea of popular fast food brands. They say that fast food brands are dying, so this obituary was to reflect this imminent death because they say it is
an unsustainable industry at this point. Again, not only are prices out of touch for large for a large portion of America, but wages do not match the cost of living, and again, these jobs are being cut. So all of these things combined to make the fast food industry a really volatile space, a really volatile space, and it says that it just puts these businesses
in future jeopardy. So Governor Knewso signed this law in an effort to make wages a bit closer to what he considered as being fairer and to create safer and healthier working conditions by giving fast food workers a voice, by amplifying their causes and highlighting their needs. But instead it's had a reverse effect. What was meant to be a positive change has led to some pretty dire circumstances. And not only are you seeing this, but again, rising prices for food
is now affecting the rest of everyone who's subjected to this economy. No one wants to pay twenty dollars for a big mac, but around southern California you'll see that if you just try and buy a singular burger. Gone are the days of the three dollars, four dollars, five dollars hamburger cheeseburger. You're now looking at a ten dollar Big Mac at McDonald's and if you have a
family, then you're seeing your prices just balloon. And if you're trying to subvert all of that by buying groceries and good luck, we're sol in many ways. One of the things that happened is that a digital company, an app company, created something called the mic Cheapest Map. Mic Cheapest Map. It's been all around the country, but right here in southern California. You
can put it to use to help you find the cheapest Big Mac. So if you are driving and you use maps just to navigate, this is something similar. You can plug into this app that you want the cheapest big Mac nearest to you, and it will direct you to that cheapest big Mac. This makes me worry because there are all these other apps that are about person to person sharing or large scale sharing and kind of giving insider baseball tips about
traffic or where to go to navigate these police or whatever it is. Ways is a really popular one, right but when you sign on to these you see this kind of inundation. It becomes very busy, very crowded with people and what could be a short line for a cheap big Mac that you think that you can obtain because of this app then turns into something longer. Right, you all are going toward the same cheap alternative, and that's where the
app does really well. It really is predatory in my mind, because while it is a free app right now, it runs off of ads. There will be incentives to get you to scribe in some way and pay some sort of nominal fee, and then you'll get hooked, and then you'll increase that pay so that you can save money. It is playing on this really volatile and unstable economy so that you can get the cheapest big mac. If you're on the ninety and you're driving through Massachusetts, you'll see that a whopper is
eight dollars and nine cents from Burger King. A whopper, excuse me, not a whopper, A big mac. Oh, shame on me. Is that a whopping in nine dollars? But it's a big mac. We're not talking about Burger King here. We'd never do that. A big mac is eight dollars and nine cents in Massachusetts. If you go to Stigler, Oklahoma, I don't even know where that is. I know Oklahoma, I don't know about Stigler. A big Mac is three dollars and forty nine cents,
so it's less than half of what's that in Massachusetts. If you are in New York City, the price is very even more. You can get a big Mac for a little over five dollars and thirty cents in locations in the Bronx and Queens. This is speaking to Natica for sure, But the priceiest big Mac is six dollars and sixty nine cents at a Westchester Avenue location in the Bronx. So why the variation? Why are we paying so differently across
even city lines, not just state lines but city lines. Why is a big Mac six dollars there but five dollars here, ten dollars there, but three dollars there. It's like gas, right, we pay the most expensive gas tax. We have the highest gas here in California. You look at other places, probably like Stigler, Oklahoma, and you're paying two dollars or
three dollars in gas, where we're paying close to six. Yeah. So here in Burbank, for reference, for so Cal prices, one big Mac is six' oh nine and then the meal is ten eighty nine, ten eighty nine. I don't know if that's coming for medium. That's a medium if you want to get and that's a medium is now and they skimp. They definitely don't give you everything you want right now. I'm not a proponent of fast food. I'm an in and out snob. I don't consider that as
fast food. But when it comes to fast food, I feel like, hey, get what you need. Long as you have some exercise and you're kind of balancing it, then do your thing. I'm not here to shame, but the fact that fast food meals are more expensive than meals that you can prepare at home is a complete contradiction. Right They're expected to be fast and cheap, but now they are more expensive and perhaps longer lines and longer it takes it for you to prepare your own food at home. So it
feels very counter productive, would you say. And the fact that it's that price here, it's likely different across city lines going down into the South Bay. The variations are again just a reflection of this very unstable economy. Prices are unstable. When we come back, we are going to get to the not a Cadela cruise and Friday nights with Nataka and see what she has going on It is Later with mo Kelly on Tiffany Hobbs, right here on kf
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