Fast Five Shorts | A Laminated Croissant Lamp Lightning Round

 New Starbucks CEO, Brian Nichols announced that one of his plans for the future of Starbucks under his leadership is making the stores community gathering spaces once again, were you, did you influence him? I don't know, maybe. I mean, it feels like he wrote, it feels like he dictated what dictated my thoughts in that letter.

But yeah. I know, I know. Okay. So I want to know though, if. If you were advising him or if you did advise him, and we don't know it yet, um, what would you say is the first thing that Brian should do to make Starbucks great again? Oh, that's so easy, Ann. I would prioritize in store order making. If you come in, if you come in store to order your coffee, you get, you get to the front of the line.

You get, you bypass every mobile order that's out there because you can just put that in your algorithm for mobile orders. Like, okay, you're just, you know, it's not ready yet. Do that now? I feel like it depends. I think it's probably like variable by Starbucks. Cause I think some of them. It sure as hell doesn't seem like it a lot of the time because I've waited a hell of a long time for my, My Americano and I'm like the first one in line.

So yeah, no. All right. A TikToker recently discovered that a crescent shaped lamp purchased from Timu was an actual pastry covered in resin. What is the more disturbing part of this story that a, the TikToker discovered this from a train of ants it found going towards the lamp. Or B, that someone wanted a croissant shaped lamp to begin with.

Oh my God. Where's the de minimis exception for this? Like where, how are we? This is proof positive of why. Yeah. How are we shipping products in that are resin covered croissants? Oh God. It's so disgusting. Um, I'm going to say that. The a, a, the most disturbing part is the train of ants. Like that makes, I'm actually like dry heaving as I'm talking right now.

It's so disgusting. Oh, um, okay. Chris question number three target announced this week that they plan to hire. I'm still like gagging. Yeah, it is really gross. Like to think that you bought a lamp and then you open it up and there's an actual croissant pastry inside of it. But this is the kind of stuff that, I mean, it's real and you've been Got to put regulations on this.

Like this is why regulations exist, people. Okay. Um, so Target announced this week that they plan to hire a hundred thousand new team members for the holidays. Because of your experience in running Target stores, I want to know what the most difficult part of onboarding a hundred thousand temporary employees is.

I don't know. I mean, I don't know. It's a little bit rinse and repeat. These stories are always interesting when they come out because every year the company announced the same thing. They're going to hire more people. Yeah, of course you are. It's the holidays. Right. So, but I think there's two things that come to mind.

One, you got to ramp up hiring. Um, so you got to get people into the chairs to be interviewed. That's never easy. And then the second part is once you get them, you have to train them and they're, you know, You know, they're going to potentially temporarily be there, but oftentimes you can find some good employees to that end up working for you into the next year.

So it's, it's a good training ground as well. All right, last one. And Neiman Marcus, this one's good. This one's good. Neiman Marcus and Christian Louboutin. Hope I said that right have come together on a collection of on trend leopard print shoes and bags What was the last occasion in which you recall wearing leopard print?

like last weekend Shoes but I mean, you know like Mob wife was like the trend. You say mob wife is how he said mob wife. Yeah. And apparently it's coming back again. So sounds like, yeah, I think this is just, come on, like leopard print. It's always going to be in fashion in some form or another, like head to toe leopard print.

That's too much, but a little, a little taste is always, I think a little classy with like the right outfit. So for men and women or just women. Um, I guess I was thinking of women's fashion. I've never worn leopard print. Honestly, I've never ever worn any leopard print. I'm sure some guys have. We need to change that.

How do we get that? Maybe like a shoe or something or like a handbag. We need to get you like a merce. That's leopard print, I think. Merce. No, you're not changing my spots for that.