Lightning Round Chaos: Dum-Dums, Snack Wars & Sydney Sweeney Celebrity Soap ⚡🧼👔
This week’s Lightning Round delivers a sugar rush of retail absurdity — from Mondelez pulling products over pricing beef with Aldi, to mistakenly buying 70,000 lollipops, and Sydney Sweeney selling out her soap line. Retail’s never been this entertaining — and we couldn’t bring it to you without the support of our amazing sponsors: A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand — the brands powering the future of retail.
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Transcript
Now let's go to the lightning round, Chris.
Speaker A:Oreo maker Mondelez is suing Aldi, alleging that grocery chain copies its packaging to confuse customers.
Speaker A:What own brand product do you think is better than or as good as the original?
Speaker B:Oh, man, you know, I don't, I don't, for some reason I don't, I don't buy that many own brand products.
Speaker B:I think because our grocery stores don't have a big own brand assortment because Minnesota groceries is kind of unique in that way.
Speaker B:But you know, for me, I guess I'd go with like the standard, like OTC drugs and you know, Mucinex, Benadryl, like Prilosec, like I'm buying all the generics of those.
Speaker B:Those things are always at least as good or at least my body tells me that they are.
Speaker A:Great.
Speaker A:I'm glad that they work for you.
Speaker A:Yes, right.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:No, Trader Joe's, you don't do any of like the Trader Joe's dupes or anything.
Speaker A:I guess it's more of a beauty thing too.
Speaker B:Trader Joe's is just like a.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's just kind of like it's, it's, it's, it's label, you know, I don't think of it like the same way for some reason.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:But okay, I mean, I guess, yeah, you do like peanut butter and stuff, you know, but, but no, yeah, yeah, no, I think, you know, I like, I like the way the private label Mucinex, you know, clears my lungs.
Speaker B:And a Kentucky mom found herself in a sticky situation when her 8 year old son ordered 70,000 Dum Dum lollipops Dum dums on her phone?
Speaker B:What have you accidentally purchased that is almost as ridiculous as 70,000 dum dums?
Speaker A:The first thing that I thought of was one summer when I was home from school.
Speaker A:My mom was working and we were bored and there was a.
Speaker B:How old, how old were you?
Speaker A:Probably eight or nine.
Speaker A:I mean it was, it was like in elementary school and my brother and I were bored.
Speaker A:So there was an ad during the daytime soap operas for, for the Book of Mormon and they said they would send you a free book.
Speaker A:And I was like, yes, I, I'll take a free book.
Speaker A:Like, let's check it out.
Speaker A:We're bored.
Speaker A:And sure enough, they sent us the Book of Mormon and we had visitors from the LDS Church at our house for maybe the next five years, calling, stopping by the house, trying to talk to my mom and, and get her on board.
Speaker A:And she was not thrilled.
Speaker A:She would not let Me live that one down.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Didn't cost her as much as 70,000 dum dums.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:No, just her time and patience.
Speaker B:Yeah, that must have been one hell of a bill, the 70,000 dum dums.
Speaker B:My God.
Speaker A:All right, Chris, question number three.
Speaker A:The creator of Succession reportedly skewers tech billionaires in his latest film, Mountainhead.
Speaker A:Will Mountain Head be must see TV for you?
Speaker B:Oh, my God, yes.
Speaker B:100.
Speaker B:I'm actually dying to watch this.
Speaker B:I've been.
Speaker B:I might even fire it up tomorrow if I can get it here in Spain.
Speaker B:But, yeah, I can think of no one better who needs skewering or deserves it more than tech billionaires.
Speaker B:And that's.
Speaker B:That's my take on that.
Speaker A:What is it?
Speaker A:On what's.
Speaker A:What's.
Speaker A:Like, I don't know.
Speaker A:Find it.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I gotta look that up.
Speaker B:Fans, let us know if.
Speaker B:If you know where it is or have watched it and give it.
Speaker B:Let us know your review, too, so.
Speaker B:All right, last one.
Speaker B:Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker B:This one's great.
Speaker B:Sydney Sweeney is selling soap that contains her own bathwater.
Speaker B:Whose bathwater would you most want infused into your soap?
Speaker B:Sign me up for this.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:And you, bath water would you most want.
Speaker A:No one's.
Speaker A:No one.
Speaker A:No one's.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker A:You honestly want somebody's bath?
Speaker A:Like, I have my own bath water.
Speaker A:Why do I need Sydney Sweeney's bath water?
Speaker A:This is like onlyfans gone to another level that I am not comfortable with.
Speaker B:Like, only fans got to another level.
Speaker A:Like, that is.
Speaker A:That is like the.
Speaker A:I mean, I think that's the origination of this concept.
Speaker A:Like, it wasn't until a platform like OnlyFans where you start selling bath water to, like.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker A:I cannot say no enough.
Speaker B:Well, you must use bath water.
Speaker B:You must use water in the production of soap.
Speaker B:So, like, what's the big deal if it's somebody's bath water?
Speaker B:Like, it's got to be.
Speaker B:Well, it's got to be cleaned, you know?
Speaker B:You know?
Speaker A:Are you sure?
Speaker A:I don't know about that.
Speaker B:I think I.
Speaker B:It's gotta be like, I don't know.
Speaker B:It's gotta pass fda.
Speaker B:I don't know, but.
Speaker B:Well, I guess.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Yeah, maybe not.
Speaker B:Who knows?
Speaker A:Are you gonna buy Sydney Sweeney's soap?
Speaker B:No, I'm not gonna buy it.
Speaker B:Are you kidding me?
Speaker B:God, no.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker B:Such a discerning shopper.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna fall for this marketing gimmick.
Speaker B:Although, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, love Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker A:But I don't want her.
Speaker A:She's still the human.
Speaker A:And I don't want her dirty bath water.
Speaker B:Everything she does turns to gold in my mind.
Speaker B:But I'm not buying her soap.
Speaker B:No way.
