Episode 94 - Peloton Price increases, layoffs, delivery changes, new weekly schedule, All For One lineup, new coach Assal Arian & more

Welcome to Episode 94 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week we cover the following topics: The price of the Bike+ and Tread is going up. However, Peloton will honor the old price for 1 week for current members. Over 200 customer service employees were laid off. Peloton is transitioning to all third party delivery (like XPO) moving forward. Peloton is looking at closing a large number of showrooms & retail stores next year. Read the full memo Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy sent to employees on Friday. A new weekly class schedule was announced with the goal of more consistency. Peloton had another outage on Wednesday. Assal Arian is a brand new German language Peloton strength coach. The full lineup & schedule for the 2022 All For One Music Fest was announced this week. There will be no live classes Mon-Thur (Aug 15-18) this week as Peloton prepares for AFO. There is a new “Welcome to Tread” in German to introduce the German community to running. There are reports that a new “auto-incline” feature for Tread is being tested (similar to auto-follow on Bike+). The next several weeks of in-person classes at the studios were made available for booking on Monday. An email went out offering some members the chance to buy a refurbished Peloton Bike for under $1000.` In Germany, Peloton has started offering refurbished bikes through eBay. Some members are able to buy a 2 year warranty outside the normal 1 year time frame. The Q4 2022 earnings call will take place on August 25th, 2022. Tunde Oyeneyin has a billboard in NYC. Happy Birthday to Olivia Amato, Christine D’Ercole, and Rebecca Kennedy this week. John & Amanda share their, and the community's, class picks of the week. You can find links to full articles on each of these topics from the episode page here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/pelo-buddy-tv-episode-94/ The show is also available via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeloBuddy This episode is hosted by Amanda Segal (#Seglo3) and John Prewitt (#Kenny_Bania).