Fast Five Shorts: A Splash Of Coconut Milk 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 Splash Of Coconut Milk Lightning Round
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00:00 - Untitled
00:00 - Starbucks Eliminates Milk Alternative Charges
00:11 - Celebrating with Non-Dairy Drinks
02:00 - Ballpark Dogs and Bad Choices
02:55 - Oregon Trail Nostalgia
03:38 - Dysentery and Childhood Memories
Tomorrow, Starbucks is eliminating the extra charge for milk alternatives, which will cost the coffee giant an estimated $1 billion a year and save its customers 10% off their drinks.
Speaker A
What non dairy drink will you be getting to celebrate it?
Speaker B
Ooh, and easy, easy, easy.
Speaker B
Iced coffee.
Speaker B
Grande iced coffee with a splash of coconut milk.
Speaker B
That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker B
I'm going to put a splash of coconut milk.
Speaker A
So you're not even going to make the barista put the non dairy milk in.
Speaker A
You're going to do it.
Speaker B
Splash the coconut and splash the coconut.
Speaker B
That's what I'm going to do myself at the condiment bar.
Speaker B
Yes.
Speaker B
And probably make a huge mess because you know, I have a history of spilling coffee everywhere I go, especially on expensive rugs at Friends of Ours Place of business.
Speaker B
All right, tops.
Speaker B
The famed baseball card maker is partnering with the Westminster Kennel Club to release a line of cards named Stars of the show which feature champion pooches from the names with the names of like Sage the Miniature Poodle to Trumpet the Blood.
Speaker B
Those are real names.
Speaker B
And what breed of pooch would you most want in the first pack of Stars of the show that you opened?
Speaker A
Okay, I guess a mini golden doodle like for my little kid who loves like he'll probably be.
Speaker A
We're gonna have so many of these dog baseball cards in our lives in no time.
Speaker A
I just know it.
Speaker A
He loves so much though.
Speaker B
What would.
Speaker B
What would said name of mini golden doodle be?
Speaker B
And do you have that picked out yet as well?
Speaker B
I'm curious.
Speaker B
I don't want to put you on the spot, but I feel like it's an appropriate question, dog dawg.
Speaker B
All right.
Speaker B
Yeah.
Speaker A
Yes.
Speaker B
Yeah, that actually makes sense.
Speaker B
I like that.
Speaker B
I like that for you.
Speaker A
Oh, God.
Speaker A
All right, Chris.
Speaker A
Last weekend's SNL featured Pete Davidson purchasing a questionable gallon of milk set in a cooler among room temperature.
Speaker A
Any drinks?
Speaker A
Energy drinks from the Duane Reade at the Port Authority Bus Station.
Speaker B
Chris.
Speaker A
What is the Chris Walton equivalent of buying milk from the Duane Reade at the Port Authority Bus Station?
Speaker B
Oh my God.
Speaker B
Oh, this one's so easy for me.
Speaker B
And I once bought a hot dog off a roller from the downtown Minneapolis target at like 2:30 in the afternoon.
Speaker B
Oh, I did it once and I will never ever do it again.
Speaker B
In fact, and I will never eat a hot dog again.
Speaker B
I swear to God.
Speaker B
I've not had a hot dog since Sense.
Speaker B
I will not eat hot dogs.
Speaker A
Why?
Speaker A
Why did you eat.
Speaker A
Why would you choose that?
Speaker A
You're.
Speaker A
I was there another Option.
Speaker B
I was craving hot dogs for some weird reason, because I don't even generally like hot dogs, but I was craving it.
Speaker A
Yeah.
Speaker B
So I knew where I could get when I was working downtown on a Saturday, which tells you a little bit about me and my personality.
Speaker B
And I decided to go get a hot dog off the roller and.
Speaker B
Yeah, no, I.
Speaker B
I can never, ever, ever go back, Ann.
Speaker B
It was.
Speaker B
It was not a good experience.
Speaker B
So that is my.
Speaker B
That is my buying Dwayne milk from the Duane Reed at the Port Authority bus Station analogy.
Speaker A
Oh, no, thank you.
Speaker B
I know, right?
Speaker B
All right, last one.
Speaker B
A new Oregon Trail action comedy movie is in development at Apple.
Speaker B
And I don't.
Speaker B
Did you play Oregon Trail?
Speaker B
And I'm curious, what was your favorite part about playing it as a kid?
Speaker A
I was just.
Speaker A
When I was like, if I think about Oregon Trail, I remember, like, the beep, beep, beep, you know, where, like, your carriage is slowly out on the green screen, black and green screen, like, going into the river, and then you.
Speaker A
You are dead.
Speaker A
You've drowned.
Speaker A
This is over the river.
Speaker B
Yeah, that was the part I remember, too, the river part.
Speaker B
Like when you're fording the stream, right.
Speaker B
That's what, like.
Speaker A
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A
So you have to be like, what are you going to get rid of in your cart?
Speaker A
What are you going to leave behind?
Speaker A
What animals are you going to leave behind so that you can float across the stream and we always drown.
Speaker B
Yeah, that.
Speaker B
That and dysentery.
Speaker B
The second dysentery drop of the show, Ed.
Speaker B
That was the other thing I remember.
Speaker B
I always died of dysentery, you know, and.
Speaker B
And had to go out hunting and shooting little squirrels and stuff.
Speaker B
I think that's what.
Speaker A
Now we know what dysentery is.
Speaker A
We can thank Oregon Trail in our childhood for that, right?
Speaker B
Yes.
Speaker B
And it's really the only time I ever use that word, so it's probably why it was top of mind before.
