Lightning Round: Tourist Traps, European Imports, & CEO Dinner Dates | Fast Five Shorts
This Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Lightning Round segment closes out the show with Arizona travel recommendations, European retail innovations, retail leadership discussions, and a hilarious attempt to predict what The Rock's new cologne actually smells like.
Chris Walton and Shelley Huff discuss must-see destinations in Arizona, why European grocery stores may have the best scan-and-go experiences in the world, the retail executives they'd most like to sit down with today, and how Walmart's delivery network is reshaping convenience retail.
There's also plenty of laughs along the way, including Shelley describing The Rock's cologne as a mix of teakwood, protein powder, and truck tire, Chris comparing it to various types of rocks, and a debate over whether Sedona is actually more beautiful in person than it is on Instagram.
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All right, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker AIt's June, the kids are out of school.
Speaker AThe Grand Canyon excluded, what is the number one must see tourist attraction in the state of Arizona?
Speaker BWell, I would probably say Sedona.
Speaker BAnd the reason is it's one of say, yeah, Sedona.
Speaker AIt is.
Speaker BIt is one of the unique places in the world that is actually more beautiful in person than on Instagram.
Speaker BSo definitely Sedona.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AThat's funny.
Speaker AI was thinking of that answer to that question myself, how I would answer that question.
Speaker AAnd that's what I would say.
Speaker AYeah, Sedona.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AAmazing.
Speaker ARed rocks.
Speaker BRed rocks.
Speaker BAll right, Chris, your question is, you are about to spend three weeks in Europe.
Speaker BWhat is the one retail concept overseas that you wish America would adopt immediately?
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AI think the way that Europe does scan and go in its grocery environments is just really smart.
Speaker AAnd I don't know why that's not come over here in a way that, you know, makes any sense, like with a controlled exit, it just seems so straightforward.
Speaker AIt's available in almost every grocery you go into for the reasons we talked about or alluded to in the robotics headline.
Speaker ASo that would be my answer.
Speaker AShelley, do you have one?
Speaker BNo.
Speaker BProbably.
Speaker BSimilarly, I also am always interested in, you know, fast checkout.
Speaker BI think customer service there is fantastic.
Speaker BSo some of those concepts similarly.
Speaker AYeah, right.
Speaker AAll right, so this one's great.
Speaker AThe Rock dropped his first ever Papa Tui.
Speaker AI hope I'm saying that right.
Speaker ALuxury cologne collection this week at target.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AFor $40, everyone, you too can smell like the Rock.
Speaker AShelley, what would you expect a Rock sanctioned cologne to smell like?
Speaker BThis is interesting.
Speaker BIn terms of how he's building his brand, I wouldn't have expected him to launch a cologne first.
Speaker BSo I'm gonna go with teakwood, protein powder and maybe a truck tire.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker AProtein powder.
Speaker AThat's fantastic.
Speaker AI was.
Speaker AThat was funny.
Speaker AI was going igneous, sedimentary, you know, volcanic.
Speaker AWhatever rocks there are, you know, whatever.
Speaker AThose smell like quartz.
Speaker AIt smells like quartz.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker ASandstone.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AIt's so crazy.
Speaker AWhat a crazy story.
Speaker BIt is.
Speaker BWell, now I. I'll have to go in and smell it to see what it actually smells.
Speaker ARight, right.
Speaker ATake a whiff.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAll right, Chris, if you could have dinner with one retail CEO today, who would it be and why?
Speaker AOh, man, I'd love to get.
Speaker AI'd love to get back on John Furniture's docket, you know?
Speaker AYou know, I haven't seen him in a while because now he's been so busy.
Speaker ABut, you know, that's the easy answer.
Speaker AYou know, I think, you know, this is going to be random, but because it was in the news this week, I think I'd also like to sit down with J.J. fleeman.
Speaker AHe's been a long follower of our stuff, but he's going to transition into Dollar General.
Speaker AI'd love to talk to him about the transition from how he's thinking about transitioning from traditional grocery, which he's got a long history into running the dollar stores at a time when the macroeconomic tailwind is clearly, clearly at his back.