Lightning Round: Turkey Day Hot Takes, Black Friday Hauls & Fashion Buzz | 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, gets personal with the Omni Talk crew's Thanksgiving and Black Friday plans!
Anne and producer Ella gang up on Chris's love of jarred gravy (spoiler: they're both anti-gravy). The team shares their Black Friday shopping strategies from Banana Republic to luxury consignment pop-ups. Plus, Anne weighs in on Bianca Censori's Kanye-funded fashion brand launch… is it ironic that someone famous for barely wearing clothes is launching a clothing line? Tune in for the fun, unfiltered takes!
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Let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker AChris.
Speaker ALet's rank the following shelf stable Thanksgiving products, from best to worst.
Speaker AJarred gravy, tinned cranberries, or instant mashed potatoes.
Speaker BOh, this one.
Speaker BThis one's super easy.
Speaker BI mean, I think it's a battle for first place on this one.
Speaker BAnd it's cranberries and gravy are neck and neck in my mind.
Speaker BAnd the canned gravy.
Speaker AThe canned stuff, the jarred gravy.
Speaker BOh, gravy.
Speaker BGravy's just good.
Speaker BGravy's just good.
Speaker BAnd, and, but, but way down the bottom is instant mashed pot.
Speaker BInstant mashed potatoes are disgusting.
Speaker BThey never deserve to be on the table at all.
Speaker BElla Shaker.
Speaker BElla, come on in here.
Speaker BWhat do you think on this one?
Speaker BI want to know.
Speaker BYou're shaking your head here.
Speaker BI want to know what you think.
Speaker BWhat, what are your rankings here, Ella.
Speaker BProducer.
Speaker BElla.
Speaker ANo, I'm with Ann.
Speaker AGravy is never on my list.
Speaker ACranberries also, Chris.
Speaker AI don't, I don't know.
Speaker ANot on my list.
Speaker BLoves cranberries.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BAll right, you too.
Speaker BAll right, well, them's fighting words.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BOur friends at Planalytics say that winter storms could also be heading our way this week, disrupting Black Friday shopping.
Speaker BWhat stores, if any, are you planning to hit up this week, Anne?
Speaker AWell, I am really excited for the noise off Bazaar Pop up, which is a critically acclaimed New York Times fashion resale site that's based in Minnesota.
Speaker AThey're doing a pop up here in Minneapolis on Saturday for shop local Saturday or shop small Saturday.
Speaker ASo I'm excited about that.
Speaker AI'm going to hit my local luxury consignment retailers at our neighborhood little shopping district.
Speaker AGoing to the Egan outlet centers down here in Southern, the southern part of the Twin Cities and probably more.
Speaker AI can't wait.
Speaker AI love, I love Black Friday shopping.
Speaker AWhat about you?
Speaker AAre you gonna go?
Speaker AYou're gonna do anything?
Speaker BYeah, I.
Speaker BFor sure.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BI always hit up Banana.
Speaker BActually.
Speaker BThat's why I made that a joke about Banana before.
Speaker BLike, banana's my place to go.
Speaker BLike, I'm always a big fan of Banana on Black Friday.
Speaker BSo I'm gonna try to head over to South Del Mar and they got a lot of deals and see what else is going on over there too.
Speaker BLike a lot of new shops over at Southdown Mall, the first indoor shopping mall in the history of America right down the street from us.
Speaker BSo, yeah, I'm gon check it out on Friday.
Speaker AWhat describes Your Thanksgiving Day mood, Chris.
Speaker ATurkey trot, morning 5k or sofa surfing?
Speaker AWhich one sounds more appealing to you?
Speaker BOh, ideally both.
Speaker BI love to.
Speaker BI'd love to turkey trot and sofa serve.
Speaker BTurkey trot in the morning, sofa surf in the afternoon.
Speaker BBut, but, man.
Speaker BAnd I, I haven't told you guys this, but, like, I think I've got sciatica now.
Speaker BLike, I can't even run.
Speaker BI can't walk.
Speaker BI got to go to physical therapy today just to get, like, out of bed now.
Speaker BSo, like, so sofa surfing is going to be like, medically mandated, I think, for me.
Speaker BBut.
Speaker BAll right, anyway, last one.
Speaker BAs our resident fashion expert, this one's kind of off the beaten path from Thanksgiving, although I give thanks that it's actually a story.
Speaker BBianca Sensory is reportedly launching a new fashion brand with Kanye's money.
Speaker BOn how high does this story rank on the irony scale for you and what are your expectations of this new line?
Speaker AI don't find it ironic at all.
Speaker AI think it's just that I'm not surprised.
Speaker ALike, again, yes, he's funding someone who has a very high presence, is already has significant virality based on the outfits that she's worn publicly for the last several years.
Speaker ASo I'm actually intrigued.
Speaker AI think other people will be too.
Speaker AI think it's going to be boundary pushing.
Speaker AIt will be daring and it's art, and I think that's the fun part of it.
Speaker ASo I'm, I'm all here for this next chapter in the Hollywood story of Bianca and Kanye.
Speaker AAnd I think a lot of people will be looking forward to seeing what this collection actually looks like.
Speaker ANow, how many people are going to be wearing this?
Speaker AThat might be another question.
Speaker ABut.
Speaker ABut I'm excited to see what she pulls together.
Speaker BSo you don't see any irony at all in a woman who made her claims by not wearing clothing, having a clothing line?
Speaker BI think that's.
Speaker AI mean, she is still wearing clothing.
Speaker AI mean, it's.
Speaker AYeah, it's.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AI mean, the sheer trend is very popular in fashion right now.
Speaker AIt's not just her.
Speaker ASo I think that that's.
Speaker AThat it makes sense to me.
Speaker ABut yeah, she's.
Speaker AI mean, why not?
Speaker AYou already got your bill.
Speaker AYou already have your built in followers who are going to pay attention to it.
Speaker ASo I don't know.
Speaker AIt wouldn't be the craziest thing that Kanye's ever done, that's for sure.
Speaker BDefinitely.
Speaker BDefinitely not.
Speaker BDefinitely not on.
Speaker BOn that scale.
Speaker BIt's very low.
Speaker BOn the crazy scale, yes.
Speaker B100.
Speaker BYeah, but Connie does.
Speaker BI mean, Connie has had an eye for fashion in the past.