Lightning Round: Halloween in July, Wing Day, & Katy Perry’s Canadian Rebound | Fast Five Shorts
The fun finale! In this Lightning Round from the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Infios, Clear Demand, and Ocampo Capital, Chris and Anne rapid-fire through the week's quirkiest stories.
From Aldi's "Summerween" products and chicken wing preferences to party attendance data and celebrity gossip, discover the lighter side of retail trends and consumer behavior. Plus, find out which host prefers drumsticks vs. flats and who they think "leveled up" in the Katy Perry-Justin Trudeau dinner drama!
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Chris, let's go to the lightning round here.
Speaker AQuestion number one.
Speaker AAldi and other retailers are rolling out a range of summer wean summerween products, bridging the gap between midsummer and Halloween.
Speaker AWhat Halloween products release would you like to see moved up to mid summer?
Speaker BOh, wow.
Speaker BThat's a tough question.
Speaker BGod.
Speaker BThe only thing I can think of, Ann, is I love when they bring out the chocolate twizzlers at Halloween, but I feel like those have now been available year round near me, so.
Speaker BSo I don't know if I can think of one.
Speaker BI feel like all candy that I like to partake in is available year round.
Speaker BIs there something on your mind that spurred that question?
Speaker AI mean, I wouldn't mind candy corn being.
Speaker AI do love candy corn.
Speaker BYeah, but.
Speaker ABut yeah, I don't.
Speaker AI'm not.
Speaker AI can't get into Halloween until it's at least like very cold out.
Speaker AAnd pumpkin spice lattes too early when it's 99 degrees out.
Speaker AYou.
Speaker AI'm not.
Speaker BI definitely don't need a pumpkin spice latte in July, that's for sure.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BYesterday was National Chicken wing.
Speaker BOne.
Speaker BDid you celebrate?
Speaker BAnd two, what is your favorite cut of the buffalo wing?
Speaker BIs it the wing or the drumstick?
Speaker AI did not celebrate.
Speaker AI did on Friday.
Speaker AI guess last Friday had.
Speaker AWe had wings, so I had some wings.
Speaker AClose enough.
Speaker AYeah, close enough.
Speaker ABut I would say definitely a drummy.
Speaker AYou've got to go for the drummy.
Speaker BOh, wow.
Speaker BI like the wing.
Speaker BI'm a wing guy.
Speaker AThe flats.
Speaker AYou're a flat.
Speaker BThe flats, yeah.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AChris.
Speaker ANew data suggests that in an effort to support our happiness, health and careers, Americans need to attend more parties than they are currently.
Speaker AAs party attendance in our country has gone down 50%.
Speaker AWhat was the very best party that you've ever attended?
Speaker BOh, wow, that's easy.
Speaker BAnd so when I.
Speaker BIn 1999, it was a holiday Christmas party thrown by the investment bank Robertson Stevens.
Speaker BAnd my buddy, a woman I knew from college, invited me to the party.
Speaker BHer name was Evren Dogan.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd I went.
Speaker BAnd it was in the City hall of San Francisco.
Speaker BYou want to talk about opulence and wealth on display in the height of money just rolling into a city.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BIt was unbeatable and unbeatable.
Speaker AWhat was there?
Speaker AWhat was it?
Speaker BOh, they had like orchestras there and like just all these different rooms serving drinks and food and.
Speaker BAnd dance floor and it was.
Speaker BIt was crazy.
Speaker BLike, if you've ever seen the movie Milk, it was like filmed right there, and we're, like, all standing in there just, like, having this wild party.
Speaker BIt was.
Speaker BWe're all dressed up.
Speaker BTies, evening gowns.
Speaker BIt was great.
Speaker BSuch a good time.
Speaker BAnd, yeah, it was.
Speaker BIt was a blast.
Speaker BAll right, this one's a fun one.
Speaker BKaty Perry and Justin Trudeau stepped out for dinner in Montreal one month, just one month after she announced her split from Orlando Bloom.
Speaker BOf the two, who do you think leveled up the most?
Speaker ASo, just so I understand this question, you're saying, like, is, did Katy Perry level up or did Justin Trudeau level up?
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AOkay, so I'm going to say Justin Trudeau for sure, because Katy Perry is stunning.
Speaker AHe's fine, but he's.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker BOrlando Perry's on an echelon higher than Justin Trudeau, even though Justin Trudeau leads a country.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BI'm just making sure.
Speaker ALed a country.
Speaker ANow he's.
Speaker ANow he's a dealer celebrity.
Speaker ASo, yes, I do think that Katy Perry is definitely much in a.
Speaker AMuch higher.
Speaker ALike, he.
Speaker BHe got his fear.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AHe got lucky.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BI would not disagree with you.
Speaker AI cannot believe she.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI don't know what Orlando Bloom's deal is, but I would.
Speaker AI would say Orlando Bloom all day, every day over Justin Trudeau.
Speaker ASorry, sorry.
Speaker ACanada.