Lightning Round: Alex Cooper Drama, AI Influencers & Cranky Neighbors | Fast Five Shorts
This week on the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, and Ocampo Capital, we rapid-fire through the week's quirkiest retail stories.
Morrison's limits colleague access to stock rooms to prevent "idling," Call Her Daddy's Alex Cooper gets booed at Wrigley Field, Nextdoor replatforms to cut cranky neighbor posts, and an AI influencer with 150K followers fools everyone at Wimbledon.
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⏩ Topics Covered:
📌 00:00 – Morrison's Stock Room Crackdown
📌 03:20 – Chad's Panini King Confession
📌 05:10 – Alex Cooper's Wrigley Field Disaster
📌 07:25 – David's Nextdoor Drama (Using Wife's Account!)
📌 10:30 – AI Influencer Tennis Sensation
📌 12:45 – When Will AI Models Hit Retail Stores?
📌 15:20 – Will Ferrell Birthday Celebration
For the full episode head here: https://youtu.be/sgweq_AtMms
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All right, you guys, let's close it up with the lightning round.
Speaker AChad, you get question number one.
Speaker AMorrison's recently announced that it will limit which colleagues it allows it in its stores back rooms to prevent what they're calling, quote, idling and promote more service on the shop floor.
Speaker ADid you ever idle in a stockroom back in your early career days, Chad?
Speaker BYou know, my, my first real job was I worked at a grocery store in the grill area when I was in high school.
Speaker BChef's hat and everything.
Speaker BYes, I was the panini king.
Speaker BYou know, there were likely some.
Speaker BThere weren't.
Speaker BThere were likely some times that I idled in the back, maybe took a stroll through the, you know, refrigerated cooler room.
Speaker BAnd I, you know, didn't want to maybe be next up for a customer order, you know, if I got through a long lunch crowd or something.
Speaker BSo, yeah, probably prone to happen a few times.
Speaker AMy gosh.
Speaker APlayed some games with this pricing sticker gun behind the scenes.
Speaker ASure, I, I, I see what you're doing there.
Speaker CAll right, next one.
Speaker CCall her daddy.
Speaker CHost Alex Cooper got booed mercilessly for her rendition of Take Me out to the Ball game at Wrigley Field last week.
Speaker CDavid, I'm guessing you, you saw the video of this.
Speaker CSo if you were to serenade the crowd during the seventh inning stretch, how would you handle it?
Speaker CWould you straight sing it or would you ham it up?
Speaker DYeah, you know, well, hey, I'm the world's worst singer, so I would never get asked to.
Speaker DTo sing it, but I think I'd have to go very.
Speaker DIt's one of the great traditions, and it's so classical.
Speaker DI.
Speaker DSo I think you got to go straight sing it, engage the crowd, and do it by the book.
Speaker DOtherwise you, it's just way too risky.
Speaker DRight.
Speaker DAnd it's not as much fun.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AAll right, David, you get question number three as well.
Speaker ANextdoor just announced that they're replatforming with the help of AI to focus on more real time news and safety.
Speaker ASafety updates for neighbors and cut back on the cranky neighbor post.
Speaker AHave you ever posted on the app, and if so, why?
Speaker AAnd extra points here.
Speaker AIf it was to shut down one of those cranky neighbors.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DSo a little embarrassed to admit this, but I'll admit it anyways.
Speaker AAre you the cranky neighbor?
Speaker DI am not the cranky neighbor, but I have shut down a cranky neighbor using my wife's account.
Speaker COh, okay.
Speaker CNice.
Speaker DWithout her authorization, of course, which, when it was found out, did make me contribute to the luxury goods market as.
Speaker DAs a doghouse to get myself out of the doghouse.
Speaker DBut yeah, I actually think it's a really good thing like that they're re.
Speaker DPlatforming.
Speaker CWow.
Speaker CGreat story, David guy.
Speaker CYeah, I 100 agree.
Speaker CAll right.
Speaker CAn influencer.
Speaker DZillou.
Speaker CI think I'm pronouncing that name right.
Speaker CAn AI powered social media star who has amassed over 150 Instagram followers by sharing sexy pics of herself at various tennis events.
Speaker CTook Wimbledon by storm last week.
Speaker CBut there's a catch.
Speaker CIf you caught that Mia is not real.
Speaker CShe is 100% AI generated.
Speaker CI looked at the photos and I cannot tell the difference, folks.
Speaker CChad, how long do you think before AI influencers start popping up inside of retail stores like actual shoppers?
Speaker BI.
Speaker BAnd I'm.
Speaker BWell, I guess I'm glad that you're asking me a more professionally oriented question related to this.
Speaker BOtherwise I don't even know what I would say.
Speaker BLike, you know, do we get sexy AI and Lululemon?
Speaker BWhat does that mean?
Speaker AI.
Speaker BListen, I. I don't actually think AI modeling is that far off, honestly.
Speaker BThe economics of cutting down and marketing creative and photo shoots and all like the, the first ones who do it are going to get some, you know, public backlash for sure.
Speaker BBut I think it'll be short lived and.
Speaker BAnd this actually will happen.
Speaker CYeah.
Speaker CWow.
Speaker CYeah, it's probably.
Speaker CIt's probably closer than it appears.
Speaker CThe objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
Speaker CIs that what you're saying, Chad?
Speaker BBut closer than maybe we'll realize given that no one even knew that this per.
Speaker BYou know, that this person, that.
Speaker BThat this wasn't a person.
Speaker CSo I, I honestly could not tell the difference.
