Episode 103

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28th Sep 2024

Fast Five Shorts | A Res "ZA" me Lighting Round

In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Avalara, Mirakl, Ownit AI, and Ocampo Capital Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Res "ZA" me Lighting Round

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  MSP Airport, our hometown airport, was named travel and leisure's number one airport in the country. What would you say is the best thing about MSP Airport? Oh my God. There's so many things to choose from. I think, I think there's two things that come to mind. Well, number one is wayfinding. That is the most easy airport to navigate in the United States.

100%. And then secondly, and what, you know, is important to me, the bathrooms, the bat, they have the Minneapolis Airports has the cleanest bathrooms in the country, in my opinion. Yes, they are very, very well maintained. Also the new Delta sky lounge is amazing. So I was sitting outside is really nice. I like that a lot.

Okay. Yes. All right. Question number two and frozen meal. Does delivery service yellow formerly known as Schwann's will be permanently parking. It's yellow trucks this fall. The company announced on Monday. What is the best thing you remember you or your family ever purchasing from Schwann's? We never bought from Schwann's, it was too rich for our blood.

We just, we, we were not a Schwann's family, but our neighbors did get it. And they always had those orange push pops, you know, like in the tube, those frozen, like dessert treat things. I think it's like orange sherbet or something. And those were always so delicious. I would steal like three of them and bring them over.

I'm sure our neighbors love that. Um, a little theft. Who doesn't want a little theft? And also, I have a question for you. Would you call this the Schwann's song? It's a, it's the Schwann song. Yep. It definitely is. Schwann song headline. Good job. Yes. Um, all right, Chris, question number three, this weekend, the power went out multiple times in one of our favorite local grocery stores, Jerry's foods.

As someone who's managed target stores, when, and if the power goes out, what are the first food items that you're saving or getting on generator power? Like, is this a supermarket sweep thing where you're like grabbing the hams from the freezer or something, and like trying to, you Get them in a basket and get them out somewhere.

Like what happens? God, if memory serves, like you got like a 20 or 30 minute grace period where you're just hoping the power comes back on. Yeah. Like you can't, you can't like leave the stuff in the freezers for very long. And so, yes, you're, you're prepping the coolers in the freezers. If you got to take action, it sucks when this happens, it's just totally awful.

And you hope your generator is working too. Um, yeah, it happened to Target recently when I was, when I was there too. It was just, I've been having a lot of power outages here in the Minneapolis area. All right. Pizza hut has launched. Rez zah maze, which is spelled R E Z R E S Z A M E S. Rez zah maze. Yes.

Okay. Yes. Trying to get pizza into resumes. It's a little bit of a stretch, but it's a new offering aimed at helping professionals stand out in today's competitive New York city job market by delivering their resumes to prospective employers in a way that is sure to turn heads via Pizza Hut's iconic pizza boxes.

Where you, and my question for you is, Were you to send your resume to a prospective employer via a pizza box, who would be top of your list and what type of pizza would you send to them? I would send it to the team at Amazon for this, buy it now show. And I would want to be one of the judges on there.

And I would just say, I am the one for your one pizza team. And I would just send them a straight up pizza. Like you only need one person for this one pizza team. And it's me. Pick me as a judge. But would it be cheese? Pepperoni? Throw some anchovies on there? Like, what would you do? Oh, I don't know. I guess I do.

I do my favorite pizza right now, which is pepperoni, jalapeno, and hot honey. Ooh, yeah. Nice. I'm all in on that. I'm always in on anything with jalapenos. Gotta love that. Yeah. What kind of pizza would you send? What kind of pizza would I send? Ooh, yeah. If I was trying to get that. Who would you send your pizza to?

Oh, I didn't, I didn't think about my own answer to this. And, oh my God, uh, what was I, I, I don't know. I think, you know, maybe because we're local, I'd send it to target and be like, do your own show and let's let us be the judges. You know, that would be my thing. You know, give a big old slice of some pepperoni.

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Omni Talk Retail provides news, analysis, and commentary on the latest trends and issues in the retail industry. It covers a wide range of topics related to retail, including e-commerce, technology, marketing, and consumer behavior. The podcast regularly features industry experts, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga, as well as retail thought leaders who all share their insights and perspectives on the latest developments in retail.

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Anne Mezzenga

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Anne Mezzenga is an entrepreneurial Marketing Executive with nearly 20 years in the retail, experience design, and technology industries.

Currently, she is one of the founders and Co-CEOs of Omni Talk.

Prior to her latest ventures, Anne was most recently the Head of Marketing and Partnerships for Target’s Store of the Future project. Early in her career, Anne worked as a producer for advertising agencies, Martin Williams and Fallon, and as a producer and reporter for news affiliates NBC New York and KMSP Minneapolis.

Anne holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

When Anne is not busy blogging, podcasting, or sharing her expertise with clients, she loves spending time with her husband and two boys and partaking in all the Minneapolis food scene has to offer.

Chris Walton

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