McDonald's Spicy McMuffin, Furniture Eulogies & Dating Trends - Fast Five Lightning Round
Our lightning round covers McDonald's spicy breakfast innovation, Bob's Furniture's quirky "Furniture Eulogies" social campaign, and the new dating trend "Banksying." Plus Chris shares his furniture design advice and grocery shopping habits. Brought to you by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, and Ocampo Capital.
📌 McDonald's spicy pepper sauce breakfast
📌 Bob's Furniture social programming
📌 Consumer behavior trends
📌 Personal shopping insights
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Transcript
Let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker A:Chris, question number one.
Speaker A:Grocery deals.
Speaker A:Who we just mentioned.
Speaker A:The new gas app for groceries is the free app that helps visitors compare the cost of groceries at a variety of nearby outlets and then builds virtual carts for them to save money on their groceries.
Speaker A:I'm curious, what three grocery items you would use this app for?
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker B:And you know, God, I gotta think about this.
Speaker B:So when I think about, like, what are my grocery staples?
Speaker B:The things I'm going to the grocery store.
Speaker B:I go to the grocery store a lot.
Speaker B:I go almost every day.
Speaker B:And I think the three things that are in my cart the most are.
Speaker B:This is gonna.
Speaker B:It's gonna crack you up.
Speaker B:Red Vines.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:Red Vines.
Speaker B:Dried dates, pitted dried dates, and coconut milk.
Speaker B:Those are the three things that I'm purchasing the most often.
Speaker B:So if I could get a good deal on those and just, you know, I. I'd be all for it.
Speaker B:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker A:You're messing the algorithm, man.
Speaker A:That algorithm is like, we don't know what to make of this guy.
Speaker A:He's maybe healthy, but then also still consumes Red number five on a regular basis.
Speaker A:What'?
Speaker A:What is going on?
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm an enigma.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Word on the street is that McDonald's is turning up the heat on breakfast this summer.
Speaker B:And starting July 8, you can add some kick.
Speaker B:Oh, this might be up your alley.
Speaker B:You can add some kick to your morning routine with the sizzling debut of the spicy McMuffin breakfast sandwich.
Speaker B:The limited time glow up includes everything you already love about the iconic Egg McMuffin, plus a fiery, delicious twist, a shot of McDonald's signature spicy pepper sauce.
Speaker B:And will you or anyone in your family give a spicy McMuffin a whirl?
Speaker A:What's the signature spicy pepper sauce?
Speaker A:Does this exist already?
Speaker A:This is chick fil, a sauce that.
Speaker A:That McDonald's has and they just don't know about it.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker B:No idea.
Speaker B:It doesn't hook me at all.
Speaker A:We are, I would say our family is pretty exclusively Starbucks breakfast eaters because it's just more convenient.
Speaker A:Like, I couldn't tell you the last time I had a McDonald's breakfast, but, I mean, I'm intrigued.
Speaker A:I love.
Speaker A:Who doesn't like, love a spicy sausage breakfast sandwich?
Speaker A:That sounds interesting.
Speaker B:You might give it a shot.
Speaker B:You might give it a shot.
Speaker A:Yeah, maybe.
Speaker A:I just.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:We don't have a McDonald's that we are frequenting ever, so I don't know.
Speaker A:I'd have to be the right time and place.
Speaker B:There isn't a real.
Speaker B:There isn't a McDonald's that's really close by to us.
Speaker B:That's a good point.
Speaker B:Which is kind of odd when you think about there aren't a lot of fast food restaurants in our neighborhood.
Speaker A:Actually, no, not a bad thing, though.
Speaker A:I'll take it.
Speaker A:Okay, question three, Chris.
Speaker A:Bob's Discount Furniture is starting a new series of social programming, including one segment called Furniture Eulogies, which will give heartfelt shout outs to questionable design choices within your home.
Speaker A:Which design element or item in your house needs to be eulogized?
Speaker A:Chris?
Speaker B:Oh my God.
Speaker B:That is such a wonderful question, Ann.
Speaker B:And I know the exact answer for me, in my house, it's our dining room table.
Speaker B:I frickin hate the thing.
Speaker B:It's huge.
Speaker B:It's wooden.
Speaker B:I got.
Speaker B:I got a tip for you all, okay?
Speaker B:Never ever buy a table that you can't write on with a paper and pen.
Speaker B:Like, it's so frustrating.
Speaker B:It's so annoying.
Speaker B:I want to get rid of it since the day I got it.
Speaker B:And that's my advice for anyone listening.
Speaker B:And it's just, it's such a bad move.
Speaker B:You don't want to do it.
Speaker B:Even if it looks cool, don't do it.
Speaker A:Okay, noted.
Speaker A:So the dining room table, no, like, art or anything that you gotta be a flat surface.
Speaker B:Couches gotta be a flat surface.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:No, I'm ready to burn that thing in effigy and.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:A new dating trend known as Banksying involves slowly withdrawing emotionally from your partner without telling them that that's what you're doing when the time comes to finally break up the Banks year.
Speaker B:Not the Banksy.
Speaker B:Banksy E. The Banksy er often feels better having mentally checked out of the relationship long ago while the other partner is left blindsided and confused.
Speaker B:This is so great.
Speaker B:Have you or have, have you or have you ever been Banksy?
Speaker A:I have Banksy somebody.
Speaker B:You Banks.
Speaker A:My first real boyfriend, Phil.
Speaker A:I still feel so bad about it.
Speaker A:Like, I still have dreams where I feel bad, but I was at college and I found it.
Speaker A:I was like, whoa, college is great.
Speaker A:My high school boyfriend.
Speaker A:Are we hanging on to this?
Speaker A:I don't think so.
Speaker A:I want to explore the world here at college.
Speaker A:And I was a real jerk, and he was the most kind person.
Speaker A:So, Phil, if you're listening, I'm real sorry.
Speaker B:No, I guess it's kind of cool that we have a name for it.
Speaker B:Like, it's not anything new, but it's, like, kind of interesting that we have a name for it now, right?
Speaker B:Like, it's something that probably everybody's done, I guess.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm not sure.
Speaker A:I love the name, but we'll go with it, I guess.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Bank Seed, right?
Speaker B:The connection, Right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I agree.
Speaker B:All right, well, happy birthday.
Speaker B:It sounds like a straight.
Speaker B:Yeah, it does sound like a stretch to me, too, but it sounds like something that could catch on, too.
