Lightning Round: Fanatics for Babies, Dating by Zip, and the Mayo Debate | Fast Five Shorts
This lightning round segment from the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, covers the quirkiest retail and consumer trends of the week.
Chris proposes adding Fanatics sports gear to baby registries (Target, are you listening?), debates the merits of "zip coding" in dating, absolutely refuses to try Frank's RedHot gummy bears, and reveals his preference for yellow potato salad. Anne shares her take on each topic, from her single-parent dating radius to why she'd never eat mayo-based salads at summer barbecues. It's retail insights meets rapid-fire fun!
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Let's go on to the lightning round then.
Speaker AAll right, question number one.
Speaker AChris Ninja has been working alongside Babyliss to get their products like espresso and coffee machines added to baby registries.
Speaker AWhat unconventional product would you have added to your baby registry?
Speaker BOh, man.
Speaker BThis is where I'm like, feel like I'm giving away my merchandise savvy for free.
Speaker BAnd, like, actually came up with this idea.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd I think.
Speaker BI mean, I don't know why this hasn't been done.
Speaker BIf I was.
Speaker BIf I was a baby registry, I'd call up fanatics and get a partnership with them.
Speaker BBecause every dad wants to buy his kid, you know, some onesie.
Speaker BAnd mom, whatever.
Speaker AAnd mom.
Speaker BAnd mom.
Speaker BAnd mom.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker BAnd their kid could be a boy.
Speaker BWhat?
Speaker BYou know, whatever.
Speaker BI'm not gonna go that.
Speaker BDown that road.
Speaker BBut, you know, everyone wants to buy.
Speaker BNot everyone, but actually, I shouldn't say everyone.
Speaker BLarge, majority of parents will buy their kids a Wednesday onesie to support their local favorite team or whatever.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BPro sports team, college team that they happen to root for.
Speaker BSo that would be what I would do.
Speaker BSo target, if you're listening, go do.
Speaker BDo a deal with F to get fanatics to get a baby gear on your registry.
Speaker AAwesome.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BAnd in the dating world, people are zip coding a practice that involves dating only people within a particular zip code.
Speaker BIs this a practice you have ever used in the past?
Speaker BI'm curious.
Speaker BAnd would you advise it now, or do you think it limits love?
Speaker ANo, I think this is a great idea.
Speaker AI think really back in the.
Speaker AYeah, of course, back in the day when I was doing Tinder when I was single, like, I definitely put like a 20 mile radius.
Speaker AI don't want to be driving an hour like that.
Speaker AIt's too much.
Speaker AIf.
Speaker AI mean, maybe if you were trying for years and you couldn't find the right person, then sure.
Speaker ABut I think zip coding feels like, especially in this day, in this day and age and if you are a single parent with kids, which I was like, you know, no way.
Speaker AI do not have time to drive two hours away to find love.
Speaker ASorry.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker BWell, I got.
Speaker BI got two Omnitok juniors that would totally disagree with that because if I had taken that approach, I would not have met my wife.
Speaker BFor those that know, you know, I married, I dated and married my wife long distance.
Speaker BSo zip coding, if I had practiced it, my life would be very, very different.
Speaker BSo I don't know.
Speaker BI feel like it limits love.
Speaker BThat's my take.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AAll right, Chris, question Number three, Frank's Red Hot, just released a line of gummy bears.
Speaker AWill you try them?
Speaker AYes or no?
Speaker BAbsolutely not.
Speaker BI hate gummy bears.
Speaker AOh, no.
Speaker ACinnamon bears.
Speaker BNope.
Speaker BI hate them.
Speaker BI hate them.
Speaker BI love Frank's Red Hot, too.
Speaker BLike, I'm all in on Frank's Red Hot, but the.
Speaker BThe fact that the gummy bear supersedes that.
Speaker BMy distaste for it.
Speaker BNo, absolutely not.
Speaker BI take it you would.
Speaker BYou would try these.
Speaker AI mean, I love a cinnamon bear, and I feel like they wouldn't be too far off from a cinnamon bear.
Speaker ASo, yes, I would try them.
Speaker AOr like those.
Speaker AThose Tajin covered, like, mango slices.
Speaker AThose are really good too.
Speaker ASo I.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AI'm all for the spicy.
Speaker AThe spicy and sweet together.
Speaker AI'll do it.
Speaker BFrank's Red Hot isn't at all cinnamony, though.
Speaker BIt's more vinegary.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker AYeah, but I think I could do it like Gummy bear.
Speaker AOh, I'd try it.
Speaker AI'd give it a shot.
Speaker BTry it.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BI don't.
Speaker BNo.
Speaker BNot.
Speaker BNot.
Speaker BNot touching my palate and.
Speaker BAll right, last one.
Speaker BKroger had to recall two varieties of deli pasta salads because of possible listeria contamination.
Speaker BRank the following salads you would eat in order of preference at a summer barbecue.
Speaker BPasta salad, egg salad, and potato salad.
Speaker BOne through three.
Speaker BWhich ones would you most likely eat?
Speaker AI would not eat any of these.
Speaker AI'm not a salad person at a barbecue because that.
Speaker AIt just grosses me out.
Speaker ABut if I had to, I would do pasta, potato and egg, probably, and in that order.
Speaker AWould you eat it?
Speaker AWould you eat.
Speaker ANo, they're just out in the sun and people touched them and licked the spoons.
Speaker AI just know.
Speaker BDoes your answer change if you're not at a barbecue?
Speaker BWhat if you just happen to be, like, shopping and putting them in your fridge at home?
Speaker BOkay, what's that answer?
Speaker ASo that answer would probably be egg potato pasta.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BThe reverse order, potato, egg pasta.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI feel like it's.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AThe.
Speaker AThe heat and summer barbecue with all the mayonnaise base and all of those things.
Speaker ANo, thank you.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AIt's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BYeah, yeah.
Speaker BDo you like.
Speaker BDo you like a yellow potato salad or a white potato salad?
Speaker AOh, I do either.
Speaker AI'm not, like, a huge potato salad person, so I'm.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker ADo you care?
Speaker ADo you have a preference?
Speaker BI like a little.
Speaker BDefinitely like some egg in my potato salad.
Speaker BYou know, like the potato salads that aren't very eggy.
Speaker BNot my thing.
Speaker AOkay, so, like, mustard based.
Speaker ALike, you want the potato salad to be, like, mixed with mustard, mayonnaise, and the egg yolks so that it's like a yellow hue?
Speaker BI think so, Yeah.
Speaker BA yellow hue.
Speaker BA yellow hue always works better for me, I think.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BGives me the confidence that it's in the range of things that I want.
Speaker AYeah, Fair.
Speaker AFair enough.
Speaker AFair enough.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AGood to know in case you want to buy crisp potato salad.
Speaker BYeah, yeah.
Speaker BYou know, please send them my way.
Speaker BI love a good potato salad.