Lightning Round: Alex Cooper Drama, AI Influencers & Cranky Neighbors | Fast Five Shorts
This week on the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, and Ocampo Capital, we rapid-fire through the week's quirkiest retail stories.
Morrison's limits colleague access to stock rooms to prevent "idling," Call Her Daddy's Alex Cooper gets booed at Wrigley Field, Nextdoor replatforms to cut cranky neighbor posts, and an AI influencer with 150K followers fools everyone at Wimbledon.
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⏩ Topics Covered:
📌 00:00 – Morrison's Stock Room Crackdown
📌 03:20 – Chad's Panini King Confession
📌 05:10 – Alex Cooper's Wrigley Field Disaster
📌 07:25 – David's Nextdoor Drama (Using Wife's Account!)
📌 10:30 – AI Influencer Tennis Sensation
📌 12:45 – When Will AI Models Hit Retail Stores?
📌 15:20 – Will Ferrell Birthday Celebration
For the full episode head here: https://youtu.be/sgweq_AtMms
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Transcript
All right, you guys, let's close it up with the lightning round.
Speaker A:Chad, you get question number one.
Speaker A:Morrison's recently announced that it will limit which colleagues it allows it in its stores back rooms to prevent what they're calling, quote, idling and promote more service on the shop floor.
Speaker A:Did you ever idle in a stockroom back in your early career days, Chad?
Speaker B:You know, my, my first real job was I worked at a grocery store in the grill area when I was in high school.
Speaker B:Chef's hat and everything.
Speaker B:Yes, I was the panini king.
Speaker B:You know, there were likely some.
Speaker B:There weren't.
Speaker B:There were likely some times that I idled in the back, maybe took a stroll through the, you know, refrigerated cooler room.
Speaker B:And I, you know, didn't want to maybe be next up for a customer order, you know, if I got through a long lunch crowd or something.
Speaker B:So, yeah, probably prone to happen a few times.
Speaker A:My gosh.
Speaker A:Played some games with this pricing sticker gun behind the scenes.
Speaker A:Sure, I, I, I see what you're doing there.
Speaker C:All right, next one.
Speaker C:Call her daddy.
Speaker C:Host Alex Cooper got booed mercilessly for her rendition of Take Me out to the Ball game at Wrigley Field last week.
Speaker C:David, I'm guessing you, you saw the video of this.
Speaker C:So if you were to serenade the crowd during the seventh inning stretch, how would you handle it?
Speaker C:Would you straight sing it or would you ham it up?
Speaker D:Yeah, you know, well, hey, I'm the world's worst singer, so I would never get asked to.
Speaker D:To sing it, but I think I'd have to go very.
Speaker D:It's one of the great traditions, and it's so classical.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:So I think you got to go straight sing it, engage the crowd, and do it by the book.
Speaker D:Otherwise you, it's just way too risky.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:And it's not as much fun.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right, David, you get question number three as well.
Speaker A:Nextdoor just announced that they're replatforming with the help of AI to focus on more real time news and safety.
Speaker A:Safety updates for neighbors and cut back on the cranky neighbor post.
Speaker A:Have you ever posted on the app, and if so, why?
Speaker A:And extra points here.
Speaker A:If it was to shut down one of those cranky neighbors.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So a little embarrassed to admit this, but I'll admit it anyways.
Speaker A:Are you the cranky neighbor?
Speaker D:I am not the cranky neighbor, but I have shut down a cranky neighbor using my wife's account.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:Nice.
Speaker D:Without her authorization, of course, which, when it was found out, did make me contribute to the luxury goods market as.
Speaker D:As a doghouse to get myself out of the doghouse.
Speaker D:But yeah, I actually think it's a really good thing like that they're re.
Speaker D:Platforming.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:Great story, David guy.
Speaker C:Yeah, I 100 agree.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:An influencer.
Speaker D:Zillou.
Speaker C:I think I'm pronouncing that name right.
Speaker C:An AI powered social media star who has amassed over 150 Instagram followers by sharing sexy pics of herself at various tennis events.
Speaker C:Took Wimbledon by storm last week.
Speaker C:But there's a catch.
Speaker C:If you caught that Mia is not real.
Speaker C:She is 100% AI generated.
Speaker C:I looked at the photos and I cannot tell the difference, folks.
Speaker C:Chad, how long do you think before AI influencers start popping up inside of retail stores like actual shoppers?
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:And I'm.
Speaker B:Well, I guess I'm glad that you're asking me a more professionally oriented question related to this.
Speaker B:Otherwise I don't even know what I would say.
Speaker B:Like, you know, do we get sexy AI and Lululemon?
Speaker B:What does that mean?
Speaker A:I.
Speaker B:Listen, I. I don't actually think AI modeling is that far off, honestly.
Speaker B:The economics of cutting down and marketing creative and photo shoots and all like the, the first ones who do it are going to get some, you know, public backlash for sure.
Speaker B:But I think it'll be short lived and.
Speaker B:And this actually will happen.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's probably.
Speaker C:It's probably closer than it appears.
Speaker C:The objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
Speaker C:Is that what you're saying, Chad?
Speaker B:But closer than maybe we'll realize given that no one even knew that this per.
Speaker B:You know, that this person, that.
Speaker B:That this wasn't a person.
Speaker C:So I, I honestly could not tell the difference.
