Fast Five Shorts | A Suitcase Full Of Sunshine 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 are joined by special co-host and Shoptalk and Groceryshop’s VP of Original Content and Strategy Ben Miller. In this clip, the group discusses: A Suitcase Full Of Sunshine Lightning Round
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Transcript
McDonald's is bringing back uncle oh, Grimacey, the slightly larger, greener and Irish version of Grimace.
Speaker A:They're bringing it back from the archives to help promote their Shamrock shake and mint McFlurry.
Speaker A:Which family member of your own, Ben, would you choose to help you and the team promote Shop Talk?
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:I had no idea where you go with that.
Speaker B:Okay, so I grew up in a small rural town in the north of England in Yorkshire.
Speaker B:My dad is a proud Yorkshireman and there's some great cliches.
Speaker B:So Yorkshiremen are famously straight talking, they're famously cynical, and they're famously really tight with their money.
Speaker B:So I can imagine.
Speaker B:So never mind.
Speaker B:Startup picture Shop Talk.
Speaker B:I was kind of imagining like, it's almost like challenge, Alan.
Speaker B:If you could get my dad, if you could get my dad to spend money, then you've got an absolute winner because that's a really high bar.
Speaker B:So challenge.
Speaker B:I mean, that's where we go.
Speaker A:That's amazing.
Speaker C:It's so funny.
Speaker C:I literally said to Ann last week, we don't hear the name Alan anymore either, didn't I?
Speaker C:And I literally said that to you?
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:All right, then.
Speaker C:The teaser trailer for the new Fantastic Four film debuted this week.
Speaker C:If you could have any of the Fantastic Four's superpowers, which one would you choose?
Speaker B:Oh, that's an easy one.
Speaker B:Fly.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker C:Johnny Storm.
Speaker B:Johnny.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, I'm not.
Speaker B:I'm not there on the bursting into flames, but.
Speaker B:But flying, yeah, that would be so cool.
Speaker B:Wouldn't that, wouldn't that be brilliant?
Speaker B:I'd love to hear that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker C:Plastic Man.
Speaker C:I wouldn't mind be Plastic man too.
Speaker C:That's pretty cool.
Speaker A:Again, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker A:Listeners will not be surprised at all that I have could not name a single Fantastic Four.
Speaker A:Is that what they're called?
Speaker A:Fantastic Four people?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:All right, let's go to question number three.
Speaker A:Ben.
Speaker A:Tariffs are on the minds of retailers and consumers these days.
Speaker A:And some retailers are reporting that they're seeing out of stocks because customers are starting to stockpile goods.
Speaker A:If you could bring an extra suitcase with you to Vegas during shop talk to stockpile some US products to take home to the uk, what would it be?
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker B:And it's not.
Speaker B:Not a suitcase full of shops or branded swag.
Speaker B:I've been lucky enough.
Speaker B:I spend a lot of time in the US as you guys know.
Speaker B:I've been worked us a long time.
Speaker B:So I have, I've got.
Speaker B:There's lots of things that I really enjoy when I'm over.
Speaker B:But if I could bring one thing, I'd love to bring back.
Speaker B:A huge suitcase full of west coast sunshine just to brighten the dower London screen.
Speaker C:That's amazing.
Speaker C:Better that than Parliament lights.
Speaker C:All right, last one.
Speaker C:Te Voodoo Tay Voodoo.
Speaker C:A term Taylor Swift fans coined to describe the outsized effect Taylor appears to have on the universe.
Speaker C:This is real.
Speaker C:Could be on full display at this weekend's Super Bowl.
Speaker C:Ben.
Speaker C:So who's it going to be?
Speaker C:The Chiefs or the Eagles?
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:We almost got for a whole podcast without mentioning Taylor Swift.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:It was close.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That was close.
Speaker B:I think it's gonna be really.
Speaker B:It's gonna be really, really close.
Speaker B:What can I be sure of?
Speaker B:I think New Orleans is going to be put on a really good show.
Speaker B:I think the halftime show will be good, but not as good as the Choctaw beach party, that's for sure.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Look, history tells us doing three times is really, really, really hard.
Speaker B:But we know that if you've got the best quarterback, you probably win.
Speaker B:So I'm going for the Chiefs and the three peat.
Speaker C:The Chiefs and the three peat.
Speaker C:Oh, man.
Speaker C:I know our Philly fans, like Evan Gold, will be very disappointed to hear you say that.
