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In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Avalara, Mirakl, Ownit AI and Ocampo Capital Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, along with guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group David Ritter and Chad Lusk discuss 2024’s Retail Awards. In this short, they discuss which retail headlines deserve the Hollywood treatment, including a $200M cocaine-in-bananas scandal, Starbucks' four-minute turnaround story, and Macy's mysterious auditor fraud case. See why these real-world retail dramas would make compelling entertainment.
0:08 - Initial movie pitch discussions
0:34 - Jeff Bezos character transformation concept
0:51 - Porch Pirates action-comedy pitch
1:32 - Starbucks turnaround story concept
2:45 - Introduction of cocaine-in-bananas scandal
3:41 - Macy's auditor fraud story analysis
4:31 - Final verdict on most filmable story
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Transcripts
Retail headline of the year that you most want to see turned into a movie.
Speaker A:Chad, since you're wearing a Batman sweater, I'm going to go to you first on this one.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Headline to movie.
Speaker B:So David likes good character play.
Speaker B:There's no doubt about it.
Speaker B:I already talked earlier about his, you know, kind of image overhaul for.
Speaker B:For Zuckerberg.
Speaker B:And yeah, he's.
Speaker B:Is he.
Speaker B:He likes the thread of the Jeff Bezos story, you know, and here he is again with what he's calling.
Speaker B:I don't know if you can read it, Jeff Bezos from geek to mob boss mentality, which is, you know, kind of like a Walter White to Heisenberg transformation.
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Should play him.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I'm not going to explore that one too deeply.
Speaker B:Personally, I'd love to see an action comedy about a gang of porch pirates and how one neighborhood community with an NFL player as their leader decided to strike back.
Speaker B:You know, kind of.
Speaker B:Kind of like Shaun of the Dead meets the Purge meets the burbs, you know, something like that.
Speaker B:And that could be really a good one.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Chad, you've thought that through.
Speaker A:The screenplay is being written currently, so Chad will be accepting offers from any major studios.
Speaker A:Chris, this is your favorite category, so I'm going to you next.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What was your pick?
Speaker C:It is my favorite category.
Speaker C:It's my favorite answer of today's show that I personally came up with.
Speaker C:And mine goes back to what Chad said before.
Speaker C:And the title of the movie is Four Minutes or Less, the story of what it took to bring back the Starbucks brand with the role of Brian Nichols being played by.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Being played by Jason Bateman.
Speaker C:I think.
Speaker C:I think that would be so great.
Speaker C:And, And.
Speaker C:And you know, too, both, all y'all, you know what I went into.
Speaker C:I went into the Starbucks store this weekend and.
Speaker C:And ordered a coffee and like, old.
Speaker A:Style, like, you just walk old style.
Speaker C:Like, I went up to the cashier, ordered a coffee.
Speaker C:Like, I ordered an Americano.
Speaker C:Not just a.
Speaker C:Not just a drip coffee, because that always comes out quick, but Americano.
Speaker C:I got my order in less than a minute and way before all the other people that were waiting there for their mobile order.
Speaker C:So my hunch is they're prioritizing in store ordering over mobile ordering based on my experience, which is what we have long said they should do on this show.
Speaker C:So, yes, Four Minutes or Less, the Brian Nichols story.
Speaker C:That's my.
Speaker A:That's my magic is already happening for you, and you just want to see this in an AMC in the next year or so is what you're saying.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Or it could just come direct to Netflix.
Speaker C:I'm fine with that too.
Speaker C:And you're not just streaming.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay, Dave Ritter.
Speaker A:Where what's yours.
Speaker A:Where what's your.
Speaker A:What's your retail headline you most want to see turned into a movie?
Speaker D:Okay, so this is a true headline off of the BBC and I want to read it first.
Speaker D:Just so you know, I'm not making this up.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker D:Over $200 million of cocaine in banana boxes.
Speaker D:So the way I want this, I want this turned into a movie.
Speaker D:Colombia, the Medellin cartel meets Sainsbury's Morrison's executives in a global banana cocaine thriller.
Speaker D:And the takedown by Interpol.
Speaker A:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker A:That is.
Speaker A:Seems like it's made up.
Speaker A:I can't believe that's a real thing.
Speaker C:It's probably in production already.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:He said banana cocaine thriller.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker A:That's the first time that.
Speaker C:Is there any other kind?
Speaker A:That's hard.
Speaker A:Even we've seen cocaine bears.
Speaker A:Now we're doing banana cocaine thrillers.
Speaker A:Okay, I'll close this up here.
Speaker A:Mine was a movie about the Macy's auditor that somehow swindled $1.5 million and nobody caught this individual.
Speaker A:And then now Macy's coming out just a couple weeks ago and be like, yeah, we figured it out.
Speaker A:It's not a big deal.
Speaker A:Nothing was impacted.
Speaker A:Nothing.
Speaker A:I think there's so much more to that story.
Speaker A:So to me, it's like maybe a true crime documentary more than it is a thriller.
Speaker A:But I still think that we're going to.
Speaker A:I can already see the like blurred out faces and the altered voices with all the people in the Macy's organization that definitely knew what was going on and what this person.
Speaker A:Person was doing with all this money that they.
Speaker A:They swindled.
Speaker A:So we'll see.
Speaker A:We'll see who wins though.
Speaker A:Chris, you're.
Speaker A:I'm gonna give you this.
Speaker A:The say, oh, you can't make me.
Speaker C:Pick my favorite category.
Speaker A:And yes, that's why I'm making you pick it.
Speaker C:I'm going with.
Speaker C:I'm going with the coke.
Speaker B:What was it?
Speaker A:The cocaine Banana.
Speaker C:Banana what it tastes.
Speaker A:Thriller.
Speaker A:Cocaine banana thriller.
Speaker C:The cocaine banana thriller.
Speaker C:Because those are just three words that I've never said in my life together and we'll never say again.