Episode 143

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9th Nov 2024

Fast Five Shorts: A Splash Of Coconut Milk Lightning 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 and Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Splash Of Coconut Milk Lightning Round

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Speaker A:

Tomorrow, Starbucks is eliminating the extra charge for milk alternatives, which will cost the coffee giant an estimated $1 billion a year and save its customers 10% off their drinks.

Speaker A:

What non dairy drink will you be getting to celebrate it?

Speaker B:

Ooh, and easy, easy, easy.

Speaker B:

Iced coffee.

Speaker B:

Grande iced coffee with a splash of coconut milk.

Speaker B:

That's what I'm going to do.

Speaker B:

I'm going to put a splash of coconut milk.

Speaker A:

So you're not even going to make the barista put the non dairy milk in.

Speaker A:

You're going to do it.

Speaker B:

Splash the coconut and splash the coconut.

Speaker B:

That's what I'm going to do myself at the condiment bar.

Speaker B:

Yes.

Speaker B:

And probably make a huge mess because you know, I have a history of spilling coffee everywhere I go, especially on expensive rugs at Friends of Ours Place of business.

Speaker B:

All right, tops.

Speaker B:

The famed baseball card maker is partnering with the Westminster Kennel Club to release a line of cards named Stars of the show which feature champion pooches from the names with the names of like Sage the Miniature Poodle to Trumpet the Blood.

Speaker B:

Those are real names.

Speaker B:

And what breed of pooch would you most want in the first pack of Stars of the show that you opened?

Speaker A:

Okay, I guess a mini golden doodle like for my little kid who loves like he'll probably be.

Speaker A:

We're gonna have so many of these dog baseball cards in our lives in no time.

Speaker A:

I just know it.

Speaker A:

He loves so much though.

Speaker B:

What would.

Speaker B:

What would said name of mini golden doodle be?

Speaker B:

And do you have that picked out yet as well?

Speaker B:

I'm curious.

Speaker B:

I don't want to put you on the spot, but I feel like it's an appropriate question, dog dawg.

Speaker B:

All right.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

Yes.

Speaker B:

Yeah, that actually makes sense.

Speaker B:

I like that.

Speaker B:

I like that for you.

Speaker A:

Oh, God.

Speaker A:

All right, Chris.

Speaker A:

Last weekend's SNL featured Pete Davidson purchasing a questionable gallon of milk set in a cooler among room temperature.

Speaker A:

Any drinks?

Speaker A:

Energy drinks from the Duane Reade at the Port Authority Bus Station.

Speaker B:

Chris.

Speaker A:

What is the Chris Walton equivalent of buying milk from the Duane Reade at the Port Authority Bus Station?

Speaker B:

Oh my God.

Speaker B:

Oh, this one's so easy for me.

Speaker B:

And I once bought a hot dog off a roller from the downtown Minneapolis target at like 2:30 in the afternoon.

Speaker B:

Oh, I did it once and I will never ever do it again.

Speaker B:

In fact, and I will never eat a hot dog again.

Speaker B:

I swear to God.

Speaker B:

I've not had a hot dog since Sense.

Speaker B:

I will not eat hot dogs.

Speaker A:

Why?

Speaker A:

Why did you eat.

Speaker A:

Why would you choose that?

Speaker A:

You're.

Speaker A:

I was there another Option.

Speaker B:

I was craving hot dogs for some weird reason, because I don't even generally like hot dogs, but I was craving it.

Speaker A:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

So I knew where I could get when I was working downtown on a Saturday, which tells you a little bit about me and my personality.

Speaker B:

And I decided to go get a hot dog off the roller and.

Speaker B:

Yeah, no, I.

Speaker B:

I can never, ever, ever go back, Ann.

Speaker B:

It was.

Speaker B:

It was not a good experience.

Speaker B:

So that is my.

Speaker B:

That is my buying Dwayne milk from the Duane Reed at the Port Authority bus Station analogy.

Speaker A:

Oh, no, thank you.

Speaker B:

I know, right?

Speaker B:

All right, last one.

Speaker B:

A new Oregon Trail action comedy movie is in development at Apple.

Speaker B:

And I don't.

Speaker B:

Did you play Oregon Trail?

Speaker B:

And I'm curious, what was your favorite part about playing it as a kid?

Speaker A:

I was just.

Speaker A:

When I was like, if I think about Oregon Trail, I remember, like, the beep, beep, beep, you know, where, like, your carriage is slowly out on the green screen, black and green screen, like, going into the river, and then you.

Speaker A:

You are dead.

Speaker A:

You've drowned.

Speaker A:

This is over the river.

Speaker B:

Yeah, that was the part I remember, too, the river part.

Speaker B:

Like when you're fording the stream, right.

Speaker B:

That's what, like.

Speaker A:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker A:

So you have to be like, what are you going to get rid of in your cart?

Speaker A:

What are you going to leave behind?

Speaker A:

What animals are you going to leave behind so that you can float across the stream and we always drown.

Speaker B:

Yeah, that.

Speaker B:

That and dysentery.

Speaker B:

The second dysentery drop of the show, Ed.

Speaker B:

That was the other thing I remember.

Speaker B:

I always died of dysentery, you know, and.

Speaker B:

And had to go out hunting and shooting little squirrels and stuff.

Speaker B:

I think that's what.

Speaker A:

Now we know what dysentery is.

Speaker A:

We can thank Oregon Trail in our childhood for that, right?

Speaker B:

Yes.

Speaker B:

And it's really the only time I ever use that word, so it's probably why it was top of mind before.

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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.

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