Nov. 23, 2024

Fast Five Shorts | A Rockin' Rollerblading Lightning Round

Fast Five Shorts | A Rockin' Rollerblading Lightning Round

In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Avalara, Mirakl, Ownit AI, and Ocampo Capital Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Rockin' Rollerblading Lightning Round

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Chris

Chris.


Chris

The home owned by the man who invented rollerblades is now up for sale in Bloomington, Minnesota, for 575,000.


Chris

It comes complete with a silo bachelor pad.


Chris

And atop the silo, Chris, is a rooftop observation deck.


Chris

I feel like I'm reading the prices right right now.


Speaker B

Is that a silo like a.


Speaker B

Like a grain silver silo?


Chris

Yes.


Chris

The founder of rollerblades was inspired by silos that he saw in pastures of.


Chris

Of fields down in northern Minnesota.


Chris

So as one does, there is.


Chris

As one there is an actual silo.


Chris

Chris, I want to know when was the last time, if ever, that you rollerbladed?


Speaker B

Oh, my God.


Speaker B

That's such a great question.


Speaker B

And I remember the year like it was yesterday, actually.


Speaker B

Ad because.


Speaker B

Very memorable experience.


Speaker B

It was 1996, summer between freshman and sophomore year at Stanford.


Speaker B

Was back home in Arizona.


Speaker B

And I used to strap on the blades, the D pads, the elbow pads, the wr.


Speaker B

Oh, my God, the neighborhood for exercise every single day.


Speaker B

And I will add, and usually.


Speaker B

Usually I was alone.


Chris

That does not surprise me.


Chris

I really.


Chris

I want.


Chris

I want Mary to find us a photo of you rollerblading through the hills of Arizona.


Chris

What color were your rollerblades?


Chris

Were they, like, hot pink?


Speaker B

No, but they were purple.


Speaker B

That's so good.


Speaker B

That's so good.


Speaker B

That's such a good thing.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Speaker B

Rollerblades are always weird colors, weren't they?


Speaker B

All right, all right, next one.


Speaker B

Targets really hot Santa.


Speaker B

Ad campaign was getting quite the buzz last week.


Speaker B

Are you pro or con?


Speaker B

The ad campaign or said another way.


Speaker B

Would you like to ride in Santa's sleigh tonight?


Chris

And, I mean, Chris is kind of my type.


Chris

I like a.


Chris

I like a salt and peppery beard and whatever, but I don't get what the big deal is.


Chris

Like.


Chris

So Santa's a zaddy this year.


Chris

That's cool, right?


Chris

Like, I don't understand what the big deal is, I guess I think he.


Speaker B

Looks like Ryan Fitzpatrick, but.


Speaker B

Yeah, I don't know.


Speaker B

I don't know.


Chris

Okay.


Speaker B

Okay.


Speaker B

Target will take all the buzz it can get this week, Right?


Speaker B

And Target will take any buzz it can get right after today's earnings announcement.


Speaker B

Whoa.


Chris

All right, Chris, let's go to question number three.


Chris

Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.


Chris

I want to know, will this be enough to convert you from physical books like the giant monstrosities I've seen you bring on planes into audiobooks?


Speaker B

Chris, Absolutely not.


Speaker B

No way.


Speaker B

No way in hell.


Speaker B

And Nothing, nothing competes with the joy I get from reading a physical book, closing it and staring at the front cover.


Speaker B

I just love doing that.


Speaker B

It just gives me some innate like, feeling of joy and happiness.


Speaker B

It's like such an accomplishment when you, when you close that book, you stare at and you're like, yeah, I just read you, I took you to town, you know what I mean?


Chris

Like, I dominated you.


Chris

Yeah, I just read dominated.


Speaker B

That's, that's the type of experience I have with great American literature and, or literature in general, I should say.


Speaker B

All right, last one.


Speaker B

Pepsi's latest ad campaign, Undercover Cups, a send up of undercover cops has Pepsi agents barging into locations of the three largest US burger chains, McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's, to snag customers drinks and replace them with Pepsi.


Speaker B

It's a, it's a great watch too.


Speaker B

I watched it the other day.


Speaker B

It's some great, some great video footage.


Speaker B

So.


Speaker B

And I might have asked you this question before, but I did not remember the answer.


Speaker B

So I'm going to ask you it again.


Speaker B

When was the last time you actually remember ordering a Pepsi?


Speaker B

Like actually ask for a Pepsi?


Chris

When I ordered a Diet Coke and they were like, we don't.


Speaker B

No, no, no, no.


Speaker B

I'm talking like, no, no.


Chris

And I said, I'll take a Diet Pepsi.


Speaker B

Okay, so you ordered a Diet.


Speaker B

No, but that's like.


Speaker B

But you didn't want, you wanted the Diet Coke.


Speaker B

When did you first and foremost ask for a Pepsi?


Chris

Not only in that scenario.


Chris

When I have to.


Speaker B

You've never asked for a Pepsi ever?


Chris

Not that I can ever recall.


Chris

I mean, I don't.


Speaker B

Wow.


Chris

It's never been, we've never been a Pepsi family.


Chris

Like, we were always a Coke family.


Chris

So.


Speaker B

Wow.


Chris

I couldn't even tell you the last time I asked, I asked or requested a Pepsi.


Chris

It was only by default when they're like, we don't have Diet Coke.


Chris

Is Diet Pepsi okay?


Chris

And I'm like, I'll have a Diet Pepsi then.


Speaker B

Really?


Speaker B

Wow.


Speaker B

Wow.


Speaker B

So you, are you old enough to have taken the Pepsi Challenge?


Chris

Yeah.


Chris

Yes, you did.


Speaker B

You remember taking the Pepsi Challenge?


Chris

I remember doing the Pepsi Challenge.


Chris

I think it was like in grade school and they put them out and that was like, hey, we're going to do the Pepsi Challenge.


Speaker B

And you're like, I'm all in on Coke.


Speaker B

You still are all in Coke?


Chris

I think so.


Chris

Sorry.


Chris

Oh, sorry.


Speaker B

See, I went through a five year period where I was like big into Pepsi.


Speaker B

Like I liked Pepsi.


Speaker B

Coke.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Chris

I mean, I guess I guess there's.


Chris

There is, like, if we're going to go deep on this, I do think that I typically drink Diet Coke, and I think Diet Pepsi is a substitute for Diet Coke.


Chris

No way.


Chris

Pepsi on its own is okay, but I just.


Chris

That's, like, never a cola like that.


Chris

I.


Chris

I don't go to cola in that way, I guess.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Speaker B

Yeah.


Speaker B

I can't remember the last time I've heard somebody order a Pepsi.


Speaker B

Like, can I have a Pepsi, like, anywhere in my par land?


Speaker B

So, so good for them for trying to go undercover cups and show the great taste that Pepsi potentially does have.