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This Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Lightning Round segment closes out the show with rapid-fire questions, unexpected takes, and a few laughs.
Chris Walton and Shelley Huff debate the greatest Arizona Wildcat of all time, react to Berlin’s famous Currywurst, discuss trusting AI with packing lists and payments, and swap Kentucky Derby advice along the way.
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Go to the lightning round.
Speaker A:First question.
Speaker A:Since I'm currently in Berlin, explain what you think a CurryWurst is in five words or less.
Speaker A:And you cannot Google this live time or chatgpt or whatever.
Speaker B:Okay, a currywurst.
Speaker B:I'm literally going to break it down.
Speaker B:Yep, probably a sausage with a curry adjacency.
Speaker A:A curry adjacency.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Spoken like a true merchant.
Speaker A:And by curry adjacency, you mean like a curry sauce?
Speaker A:Maybe, Maybe, Maybe.
Speaker B:All right, there's curry involved.
Speaker B:What is it really?
Speaker B:Now you can tell me.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, you nailed it.
Speaker A:You nailed it.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's sausage covered and smothered in curry.
Speaker A:Typically, it seems like it's a ketchup based curry because I had it and I asked some friends who tried it too this week and sometimes has curry powder dusted on it.
Speaker A:Sounds like you get served with chips too, or french fries too.
Speaker A:Shelly.
Speaker A:That's the other thing.
Speaker B:Ketchup based curry.
Speaker B:That's a new one for me.
Speaker A:It's a very tomatoey based curry.
Speaker A:Very tomatoey based curry.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:Maybe ketchup base is not the right word.
Speaker A:People probably take offense to that.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But it's a very tomato based curry.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I'm not enticed to try it, but I hope you do, though.
Speaker A:I got.
Speaker A:I got recommended from some Brits last week and I told some people and they're like, you took.
Speaker A:You took eating advice from British people?
Speaker A:What are you doing?
Speaker A:But hey, hey, got to love my Brits.
Speaker B:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker B:Okay, so your question is, Chris, being another Arizona, a fellow Arizonan, what is the first place you go to eat and when you land in Arizona?
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:God.
Speaker A:So back in college, I used to go to native New Yorker and this place called Pranksters for the wings down in Tempe for the Buffalo wings.
Speaker A:They great Buffalo wings, but those I think are gone now.
Speaker A:So now I'd probably either say TC Eggington's, which is like a brunch place, or Venezia's, the pizza place.
Speaker A:Jeff Venetia's in Tucson.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:Vinicius for those listening is the pizza place in Breaking Bad when he throws the pizza on the roof.
Speaker A:They have it in Albuquerque and in.
Speaker A:In the Phoenix area too.
Speaker A:So, yeah, that's what I'd say.
Speaker A:That pizza is really good, Shelly.
Speaker B:I'll have to try it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Back in the day, as a Wildcat alum, who is the greatest Wildcat in the history of Arizona basketball And Shelley, there is a right answer to this question.
Speaker A:So I'm.
Speaker B:Well, there's absolutely one answer is how I think about this.
Speaker B:And it's Steve Ker now and always.
Speaker B:Steve.
Speaker B:I grew up watching Steve play Arizona basketball as a kid.
Speaker B:I obviously live in the Bay Area for a long time and love watching him coach Golden State.
Speaker B:Tremendous guy, tremendous character.
Speaker B:But I will add Sean Elliott a distance second, so I will.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:And Sean's a Tucson guy, too, so.
Speaker B:So I've got some love for Sean Elliott, but Steve Kerr by a large margin.
Speaker A:I'm surprised you didn't represent Tucson as the hometown with Sean Elliott.
Speaker A:You went with Steve Kerr by a wide margin.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I guess.
Speaker B:So, Chris, over to you.
Speaker B:Are you trusting AI more to manage your shopping list or your calendar?
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, I've never been able to get in those calendly tools and stuff.
Speaker A:Like, they just.
Speaker A:I can't get those to work for me.
Speaker A:I'm definitely not using it to manage my shopping list either.
Speaker A:But I think if I had to put a gun on my head and decide which one, I think I'd say my calendar because, like, you know, I get a little weirded out by agentic payments and it seems like a lot of folks here at the World Retail Congress are too.
Speaker A:Like, people are saying, like, literally I had somebody on stage say I would not be investing in payment integrations and tie ins.
Speaker A:But what about you?
Speaker A:I don't know, Shelley.
Speaker A:What would you do?
Speaker B:So I heard a new use case last night that I'm going to try.
Speaker B:So this week I had to pack for Miami for four days, Chicago for four days, and Kentucky for four days.
Speaker B:And I did it myself.
Speaker B:And I heard of another executive that I'm close to, used an agent to put her packing list together and gave it the dimensions of her luggage and it did the whole thing.
Speaker B:She offered like a couple pictures of her outfits, the style she wanted to go with where she was traveling, and it recommended her entire packing list that would fit in her luggage.
Speaker B:So I will be back to talk about how that works out for me, but I wish I would have done it for this trip.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Cause you're on your way to the Kentucky Derby, right?
Speaker B:I am on my way to the Kentucky Derby, like hours away.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Tomorrow I leave for.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker A:So, so excited.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I, I, yeah.
Speaker A:God, so much fun.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That is such a blast.
Speaker A:That's a.
Speaker A:That's a bucket list trip.
Speaker B:I'm going to take your recommendation and just have fun, which is what you said.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker A:And gamble, too, I think, was my other recommendation.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Put some money on the horses.
Speaker B:Definitely pick the horse and.
Speaker B:Okay, so have fun and pick the winning horse.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Pick the winning horse.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Don't we wish we all could do that?