Weekly Update - November 5th

Week ending on November 5, 2023.

Carry over from last week

Hot Sauce

• Wholesale pricing for AAPES with existing businesses.

• Others were "minted" or purchased, but never listed.

Completed this week

• Found an issue in the wholesale pricing for some customers.

  • Finalized a separate wholesale site for wholesale orders.

  • Hosting a Twitter space on the evening of the 6th to reveal all of the details.

    • https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRvoknBvxl

• Continued to onboard the new CFO.

  • Looking at the tax warnings within Shopify.

• Researched options to accept crypto payments within Shopify.

  • This is looking like it will be possible in the next couple of weeks.

• Had several calls with other communities for business opportunities.

• Continued alternative packaging and product configuration testing for major retailers.

  • Research and testing for environmentally friendly packaging options.

• The good news is that we continue to receive communication from the retail distributor who has advised us that they are in discussions with three new stores. Some well-known. Due to NDAs, we cannot disclose much more but we are very excited to see this escalating.

• More small stuff and business development and discovery phone calls.

To do

• Remove some elements of Pepe sauce on the apocalypticapes.com site.

• Discuss with Fity how to handle the Hot Sauce NFTs.

  • The Custom Hot Sauces has replaced this process.

• Hot Sauce

  • Continue to work through the backlog of sauces.

Challenges

• Hot Sauce

  • How to pay royalties?

    • Group rev share/royalties.

      • How to allocate?

      • How to claim?

Other updates

• Part of the ThrillKicker team is out for part of next week.