Fast Five Shorts | A Lovely-Scented Lightning Round
In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Simbe, Ocampo Capital and Scratch Event DJs Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Lovely-Scented Lightning Round
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The car fragrance category is growing so quickly that luxury fragrance houses like Jo Malone, for example, known for personal scents, are now offering signature scents for your vehicles.
Speaker A:Chris, which luxury scent would you want consistently piped into your car?
Speaker A:Or are you more of a hanging tree kind of guy?
Speaker A:And if so, what's the hanging tree scent?
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:And this is funny.
Speaker B:Like, I'm generally not a scents guy in general.
Speaker B:Like, I don't.
Speaker B:You know, I don't wear cologne.
Speaker B:I don't really like perfumes that much.
Speaker B:But I will say this.
Speaker B:Yeah, this is funny.
Speaker B:There was a perfume that my flight attendant was wearing on my flight out to Vegas on Monday, where I found it so intoxicating that I almost went up to her and said, in a.
Speaker A:Good way or a bad way?
Speaker B:Yeah, in a good way.
Speaker B:Like, I was like, wow, that is amazing.
Speaker B:And I almost went up to her.
Speaker B:I wanted to go up to her and ask, like, hey, what is that perfume you're wearing?
Speaker B:But I did it because I didn't want to be the old guy creeper because I'm probably, like, 20 years older than her.
Speaker B:And I'm guessing.
Speaker A:I guess.
Speaker B:Guessing that's probably the smart move.
Speaker B:This is where I regret not traveling out with you, because I could have sent you to do that task.
Speaker B:You could have, and it would have been great.
Speaker B:But, you know.
Speaker A:Yes, but.
Speaker B:Yeah, that.
Speaker B:So I don't.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker B:But I did like the perfume that to flight attendant.
Speaker A:So random Delta Flight Attendant perfume would be what you would pipe into your car.
Speaker B:Some perfume that will remain undiscovered for the rest of my life.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:On Friday, Triunion Seafood sent out a statement explaining it has voluntarily recalled select lots of canned tuna products sold under the Genova Bandcamps, H E B and Trader Joe's brand names over potential botulism contamination.
Speaker B:And Costco was also on that list.
Speaker B:So tread carefully.
Speaker B:And my question for you is, do you like Chunk Like Tuna, or are you strictly an albacore kind of girl?
Speaker A:I like all kind of tuna.
Speaker A:Oh, I don't.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't discriminate.
Speaker A:I mean, I guess if I had to pick, I would pick albacore.
Speaker A:Actually, I have started eating more mackerel because I was told by a medical professional that mackerel has more protein and less mercury than tuna.
Speaker A:It's just a little bit more costly.
Speaker A:Um, but, yeah, I don't.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker B:So you, like.
Speaker B:You eat Chunk Like Tuna, the hot dog of tuna that's so.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker B:It turns my stomach.
Speaker A:If you put enough.
Speaker A:If you put enough mayo and mustard and stuff in, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker A:It's just like protein.
Speaker A:Like, I just need to get protein.
Speaker A:And it's a very easy way to do that.
Speaker A:So unless you're eating it on a plane, don't eat it on the plane next year.
Speaker A:Nice smelling.
Speaker B:No, you shouldn't.
Speaker B:You should not eat tuna in mixed company.
Speaker B:In general.
Speaker B:I think that's a good rule, too.
Speaker B:You don't bring tuna to the office.
Speaker A:No, you do not.
Speaker B:Is also a major faux problem.
Speaker A:Unless it's cold.
Speaker A:Cold is fine.
Speaker A:Hot.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:No way.
Speaker B:Hot tuna.
Speaker B:What's hot tuna?
Speaker A:Like a tuna melt?
Speaker A:You can smell that?
Speaker A:You can smell hot tuna?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Cold tuna?
Speaker A:Nobody can really.
Speaker A:Or like a tuna pasta salad or something like.
Speaker A:Nobody's.
Speaker A:You're not bugging that many people, I don't think, but.
Speaker B:Oh, no.
Speaker A:But I work alone, so I'm not in an office environment anymore.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Good thing we got rid of that office.
Speaker A:All right, Chris, question number three.
Speaker A:DoorDash has partnered with Hustler to provide.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Product and sweet and spicy flower displays just in time for this Friday, Valentine's Day.
Speaker A:What other holiday do you most wish DoorDash would offer a last minute shopping dealer partnership for?
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:You know, I think.
Speaker B:I don't think they have this, but I think what's coming to my mind is actually like last minute birthday ideas.
Speaker B:You could have like an actual, like, you know, merchandising category for that alongside all their other categories.
Speaker B:They have, like, just things you need to get really quickly.
Speaker B:And it could be like packages, it could be gifts, it could be anything.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker B:That would be my idea because I know, Anne.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Your birthday is one of your top five holidays that you like to celebrate every year.
Speaker B:So that's why I included it as a holiday in answering this question.
Speaker A:Yes, yes, I think that's a great idea.
Speaker A:They do have a gifts category, but I do think they could get even more specific in that area.
Speaker A:So Doordash, do they have a gifts category?
Speaker B:Okay, yeah, that's good.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:But it's light.
Speaker A:It's light on ideas.
Speaker B:Not merchandise, right?
Speaker B:It's not merchandise.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's like flowers and that kind of thing.
Speaker A:But you know, man, flowers.
Speaker B:Dime a dozen.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker B:Literally.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you are the doordash machine.
Speaker A:Not this time of year.
Speaker A:Not a dime a dozen this time of year.
Speaker B:Definitely not.
Speaker A:More like a dozen.
Speaker A:A dozen dollars per per rose or whatever it is this time of year.
Speaker B:And if you read the inflation report that just came out, nothing's a dime a dozen anymore.
Speaker B:That came out this morning.
Speaker B:My God.
Speaker B:All right, recent, a recent review links three potentially blinding eye conditions to GLP1 drugs like Ozempic.
Speaker B:Do you think news like this will do anything to slow down the Ozempic and GLP1 train?
Speaker A:Anne oh not a chance.
Speaker B:Not a chance.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:In fact eye blindness you think is is not a, is not a no.
Speaker A:I think the, I think the government better start preparing to do you know, reinstallations of the like loud blinking it's safe to cross signs because we're going to have a lot more, a lot more infrastructure that needs to support the recently blinded if that's the case.
Speaker B:God between cannabis and GLP1 we're going to have stone people that can't see.
Speaker B:This is going to be great.
