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We're doing the Rogan style with the screen here if you're watching this on YouTube or Spotify.

So check this out, right? So the Australian fitness industry and this is a benchmark from IBIS World, is growing by 1.4%.

Now, what does that include in that? Because you pulled out to that.

What does that include?

So the company has been struggling in the US, and that's in the face of higher beef prices and lower income co- uh, consumers cutting back on dining out, and that has actually seen its share price fall by about twenty-one percent over the last year.

Joshua Campbell, who's a senior analyst at IBISWorld, says that McDonald's stores in the Australian market have feel-- have actually fared better, and its focus on chicken burgers has been noticed.

McDonald's highlighted the Korean barbecue McCrispy on its recent earning call as an example of successful Australian chicken innovation.

Yesterday's investor day reinforced that broader strategy, identifying Mc-McCrispy and chicken as major growth platforms for M-McDonald's in the next couple of years.

And it comes straight from the federal business records.

So IBIS World tracks businesses by federal industry code.

And under that code for beer, wine, and liquor stores, there are currently 43,973 businesses.

stores that qualify as a liquor store in the U.S. in 2025.

So let's look at a couple other things here as we wrap up these statistics, so bear with me.

Number of bookstores in the US, which was an interesting one, is this goes, this actually counters the idea that the bookstores are dying The count is actually going up.

IBIS World found that 54,045 bookstores were in the U.S. in 2025.

That's up 3.4% from 52,283 in 2024, which is up about 4% since 2020.