Feb. 15, 2025

Fast Five Shorts | A Lovely-Scented Lightning Round

Fast Five Shorts | A Lovely-Scented Lightning Round

In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Simbe, Ocampo Capital and Scratch Event DJs Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Lovely-Scented Lightning Round

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Speaker A

The car fragrance category is growing so quickly that luxury fragrance houses like Jo Malone, for example, known for personal scents, are now offering signature scents for your vehicles.


Speaker A

Chris, which luxury scent would you want consistently piped into your car?


Speaker A

Or are you more of a hanging tree kind of guy?


Speaker A

And if so, what's the hanging tree scent?


Speaker B

Oh, my God.


Speaker B

And this is funny.


Speaker B

Like, I'm generally not a scents guy in general.


Speaker B

Like, I don't.


Speaker B

You know, I don't wear cologne.


Speaker B

I don't really like perfumes that much.


Speaker B

But I will say this.


Speaker B

Yeah, this is funny.


Speaker B

There was a perfume that my flight attendant was wearing on my flight out to Vegas on Monday, where I found it so intoxicating that I almost went up to her and said, in a.


Speaker A

Good way or a bad way?


Speaker B

Yeah, in a good way.


Speaker B

Like, I was like, wow, that is amazing.


Speaker B

And I almost went up to her.


Speaker B

I wanted to go up to her and ask, like, hey, what is that perfume you're wearing?


Speaker B

But I did it because I didn't want to be the old guy creeper because I'm probably, like, 20 years older than her.


Speaker B

And I'm guessing.


Speaker A

I guess.


Speaker B

Guessing that's probably the smart move.


Speaker B

This is where I regret not traveling out with you, because I could have sent you to do that task.


Speaker B

You could have, and it would have been great.


Speaker B

But, you know.


Speaker A

Yes, but.


Speaker B

Yeah, that.


Speaker B

So I don't.


Speaker B

I.


Speaker B

I don't know.


Speaker B

I don't have an answer for that.


Speaker B

But I did like the perfume that to flight attendant.


Speaker A

So random Delta Flight Attendant perfume would be what you would pipe into your car.


Speaker B

Some perfume that will remain undiscovered for the rest of my life.


Speaker B

All right.


Speaker B

On Friday, Triunion Seafood sent out a statement explaining it has voluntarily recalled select lots of canned tuna products sold under the Genova Bandcamps, H E B and Trader Joe's brand names over potential botulism contamination.


Speaker B

And Costco was also on that list.


Speaker B

So tread carefully.


Speaker B

And my question for you is, do you like Chunk Like Tuna, or are you strictly an albacore kind of girl?


Speaker A

I like all kind of tuna.


Speaker A

Oh, I don't.


Speaker A

I don't.


Speaker A

I don't discriminate.


Speaker A

I mean, I guess if I had to pick, I would pick albacore.


Speaker A

Actually, I have started eating more mackerel because I was told by a medical professional that mackerel has more protein and less mercury than tuna.


Speaker A

It's just a little bit more costly.


Speaker A

Um, but, yeah, I don't.


Speaker A

It is.


Speaker B

So you, like.


Speaker B

You eat Chunk Like Tuna, the hot dog of tuna that's so.


Speaker A

I mean, yeah.


Speaker A

Why?


Speaker B

It turns my stomach.


Speaker A

If you put enough.


Speaker A

If you put enough mayo and mustard and stuff in, it doesn't even matter.


Speaker A

It's just like protein.


Speaker A

Like, I just need to get protein.


Speaker A

And it's a very easy way to do that.


Speaker A

So unless you're eating it on a plane, don't eat it on the plane next year.


Speaker A

Nice smelling.


Speaker B

No, you shouldn't.


Speaker B

You should not eat tuna in mixed company.


Speaker B

In general.


Speaker B

I think that's a good rule, too.


Speaker B

You don't bring tuna to the office.


Speaker A

No, you do not.


Speaker B

Is also a major faux problem.


Speaker A

Unless it's cold.


Speaker A

Cold is fine.


Speaker A

Hot.


Speaker A

No.


Speaker A

No way.


Speaker B

Hot tuna.


Speaker B

What's hot tuna?


Speaker A

Like a tuna melt?


Speaker A

You can smell that?


Speaker A

You can smell hot tuna?


Speaker B

Yeah, yeah.


Speaker A

Cold tuna?


Speaker A

Nobody can really.


Speaker A

Or like a tuna pasta salad or something like.


Speaker A

Nobody's.


Speaker A

You're not bugging that many people, I don't think, but.


Speaker B

Oh, no.


Speaker A

But I work alone, so I'm not in an office environment anymore.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Speaker B

Good thing we got rid of that office.


Speaker A

All right, Chris, question number three.


Speaker A

DoorDash has partnered with Hustler to provide.


Speaker B

Oh, my God.


Speaker A

Product and sweet and spicy flower displays just in time for this Friday, Valentine's Day.


Speaker A

What other holiday do you most wish DoorDash would offer a last minute shopping dealer partnership for?


Speaker B

Oh, my God.


Speaker B

You know, I think.


Speaker B

I don't think they have this, but I think what's coming to my mind is actually like last minute birthday ideas.


Speaker B

You could have like an actual, like, you know, merchandising category for that alongside all their other categories.


Speaker B

They have, like, just things you need to get really quickly.


Speaker B

And it could be like packages, it could be gifts, it could be anything.


Speaker A

That.


Speaker B

That would be my idea because I know, Anne.


Speaker B

Yes.


Speaker B

Your birthday is one of your top five holidays that you like to celebrate every year.


Speaker B

So that's why I included it as a holiday in answering this question.


Speaker A

Yes, yes, I think that's a great idea.


Speaker A

They do have a gifts category, but I do think they could get even more specific in that area.


Speaker A

So Doordash, do they have a gifts category?


Speaker B

Okay, yeah, that's good.


Speaker A

But it's.


Speaker A

But it's light.


Speaker A

It's light on ideas.


Speaker B

Not merchandise, right?


Speaker B

It's not merchandise.


Speaker A

Yeah.


Speaker A

It's like flowers and that kind of thing.


Speaker A

But you know, man, flowers.


Speaker B

Dime a dozen.


Speaker B

Really?


Speaker B

Literally.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Speaker B

And you are the doordash machine.


Speaker A

Not this time of year.


Speaker A

Not a dime a dozen this time of year.


Speaker B

Definitely not.


Speaker A

More like a dozen.


Speaker A

A dozen dollars per per rose or whatever it is this time of year.


Speaker B

And if you read the inflation report that just came out, nothing's a dime a dozen anymore.


Speaker B

That came out this morning.


Speaker B

My God.


Speaker B

All right, recent, a recent review links three potentially blinding eye conditions to GLP1 drugs like Ozempic.


Speaker B

Do you think news like this will do anything to slow down the Ozempic and GLP1 train?


Speaker A

Anne oh not a chance.


Speaker B

Not a chance.


Speaker B

Really?


Speaker A

No.


Speaker B

In fact eye blindness you think is is not a, is not a no.


Speaker A

I think the, I think the government better start preparing to do you know, reinstallations of the like loud blinking it's safe to cross signs because we're going to have a lot more, a lot more infrastructure that needs to support the recently blinded if that's the case.


Speaker B

God between cannabis and GLP1 we're going to have stone people that can't see.


Speaker B

This is going to be great.