Lightning Round: Turkey Day Hot Takes, Black Friday Hauls & Fashion Buzz | Fast Five Shorts
This Lightning Round segment from the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, gets personal with the Omni Talk crew's Thanksgiving and Black Friday plans!
Anne and producer Ella gang up on Chris's love of jarred gravy (spoiler: they're both anti-gravy). The team shares their Black Friday shopping strategies from Banana Republic to luxury consignment pop-ups. Plus, Anne weighs in on Bianca Censori's Kanye-funded fashion brand launch… is it ironic that someone famous for barely wearing clothes is launching a clothing line? Tune in for the fun, unfiltered takes!
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Transcript
Let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker A:Chris.
Speaker A:Let's rank the following shelf stable Thanksgiving products, from best to worst.
Speaker A:Jarred gravy, tinned cranberries, or instant mashed potatoes.
Speaker B:Oh, this one.
Speaker B:This one's super easy.
Speaker B:I mean, I think it's a battle for first place on this one.
Speaker B:And it's cranberries and gravy are neck and neck in my mind.
Speaker B:And the canned gravy.
Speaker A:The canned stuff, the jarred gravy.
Speaker B:Oh, gravy.
Speaker B:Gravy's just good.
Speaker B:Gravy's just good.
Speaker B:And, and, but, but way down the bottom is instant mashed pot.
Speaker B:Instant mashed potatoes are disgusting.
Speaker B:They never deserve to be on the table at all.
Speaker B:Ella Shaker.
Speaker B:Ella, come on in here.
Speaker B:What do you think on this one?
Speaker B:I want to know.
Speaker B:You're shaking your head here.
Speaker B:I want to know what you think.
Speaker B:What, what are your rankings here, Ella.
Speaker B:Producer.
Speaker B:Ella.
Speaker A:No, I'm with Ann.
Speaker A:Gravy is never on my list.
Speaker A:Cranberries also, Chris.
Speaker A:I don't, I don't know.
Speaker A:Not on my list.
Speaker B:Loves cranberries.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:All right, you too.
Speaker B:All right, well, them's fighting words.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Our friends at Planalytics say that winter storms could also be heading our way this week, disrupting Black Friday shopping.
Speaker B:What stores, if any, are you planning to hit up this week, Anne?
Speaker A:Well, I am really excited for the noise off Bazaar Pop up, which is a critically acclaimed New York Times fashion resale site that's based in Minnesota.
Speaker A:They're doing a pop up here in Minneapolis on Saturday for shop local Saturday or shop small Saturday.
Speaker A:So I'm excited about that.
Speaker A:I'm going to hit my local luxury consignment retailers at our neighborhood little shopping district.
Speaker A:Going to the Egan outlet centers down here in Southern, the southern part of the Twin Cities and probably more.
Speaker A:I can't wait.
Speaker A:I love, I love Black Friday shopping.
Speaker A:What about you?
Speaker A:Are you gonna go?
Speaker A:You're gonna do anything?
Speaker B:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:For sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I always hit up Banana.
Speaker B:Actually.
Speaker B:That's why I made that a joke about Banana before.
Speaker B:Like, banana's my place to go.
Speaker B:Like, I'm always a big fan of Banana on Black Friday.
Speaker B:So I'm gonna try to head over to South Del Mar and they got a lot of deals and see what else is going on over there too.
Speaker B:Like a lot of new shops over at Southdown Mall, the first indoor shopping mall in the history of America right down the street from us.
Speaker B:So, yeah, I'm gon check it out on Friday.
Speaker A:What describes Your Thanksgiving Day mood, Chris.
Speaker A:Turkey trot, morning 5k or sofa surfing?
Speaker A:Which one sounds more appealing to you?
Speaker B:Oh, ideally both.
Speaker B:I love to.
Speaker B:I'd love to turkey trot and sofa serve.
Speaker B:Turkey trot in the morning, sofa surf in the afternoon.
Speaker B:But, but, man.
Speaker B:And I, I haven't told you guys this, but, like, I think I've got sciatica now.
Speaker B:Like, I can't even run.
Speaker B:I can't walk.
Speaker B:I got to go to physical therapy today just to get, like, out of bed now.
Speaker B:So, like, so sofa surfing is going to be like, medically mandated, I think, for me.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:All right, anyway, last one.
Speaker B:As our resident fashion expert, this one's kind of off the beaten path from Thanksgiving, although I give thanks that it's actually a story.
Speaker B:Bianca Sensory is reportedly launching a new fashion brand with Kanye's money.
Speaker B:On how high does this story rank on the irony scale for you and what are your expectations of this new line?
Speaker A:I don't find it ironic at all.
Speaker A:I think it's just that I'm not surprised.
Speaker A:Like, again, yes, he's funding someone who has a very high presence, is already has significant virality based on the outfits that she's worn publicly for the last several years.
Speaker A:So I'm actually intrigued.
Speaker A:I think other people will be too.
Speaker A:I think it's going to be boundary pushing.
Speaker A:It will be daring and it's art, and I think that's the fun part of it.
Speaker A:So I'm, I'm all here for this next chapter in the Hollywood story of Bianca and Kanye.
Speaker A:And I think a lot of people will be looking forward to seeing what this collection actually looks like.
Speaker A:Now, how many people are going to be wearing this?
Speaker A:That might be another question.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But I'm excited to see what she pulls together.
Speaker B:So you don't see any irony at all in a woman who made her claims by not wearing clothing, having a clothing line?
Speaker B:I think that's.
Speaker A:I mean, she is still wearing clothing.
Speaker A:I mean, it's.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:I mean, the sheer trend is very popular in fashion right now.
Speaker A:It's not just her.
Speaker A:So I think that that's.
Speaker A:That it makes sense to me.
Speaker A:But yeah, she's.
Speaker A:I mean, why not?
Speaker A:You already got your bill.
Speaker A:You already have your built in followers who are going to pay attention to it.
Speaker A:So I don't know.
Speaker A:It wouldn't be the craziest thing that Kanye's ever done, that's for sure.
Speaker B:Definitely.
Speaker B:Definitely not.
Speaker B:Definitely not on.
Speaker B:On that scale.
Speaker B:It's very low.
Speaker B:On the crazy scale, yes.
Speaker B:100.
Speaker B:Yeah, but Connie does.
Speaker B:I mean, Connie has had an eye for fashion in the past.
