In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Simbe, and Ocampo Capital Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga, along with special guest hosts from the A&M Consumer & Retail group David Brown and Lisa Collier discuss: How "The Price Of Wishes Has Increased With Inflation" In The Latest Lightning Round
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Speaker A:
Lisa, first question is for you.
Speaker A:
Skims and Nike recently announced a collaboration, and some in the fashion industry are speculating that it could be the early signs of an acquisition.
Speaker A:
Would you be for or against Nike's acquisition of Skims?
Speaker B:
Look, I don't think my personal opinion is Nike doesn't need to acquire it because it's not a collaboration.
Speaker B:
Right.
Speaker B:
If you read the fine print, it's actually a brand.
Speaker B:
So what they're doing is they're gearing up to set up the next Jordan brand.
Speaker B:
If this works, it's brilliant.
Speaker B:
I think on Nike's part and on skims part, I think they could set up an acquisition, but I think it would be a distraction.
Speaker B:
So I don't think they need to acquire.
Speaker B:
I think they need to build this separate Nike skims brand.
Speaker B:
And I think it is one hell of an innovative play on Nike's part to go after the women's business.
Speaker B:
I'll just say I had this idea three years ago and sad I didn't execute it.
Speaker C:
Oh, oh, right, right.
Speaker C:
When your previous employer.
Speaker C:
Wow.
Speaker C:
One plus one equals three.
Speaker C:
That's a really great take.
Speaker C:
All right, David, the penny may soon be going away.
Speaker C:
First question, how much will you miss it?
Speaker C:
And second question, what will you plan on throwing into a fountain to make a wish instead?
Speaker D:
What's a penny?
Speaker D:
Like a.
Speaker D:
I'm, like, vehemently opposed to carrying any kind of change, so.
Speaker D:
No, yeah, me too.
Speaker D:
Miss it in the slightest.
Speaker D:
But I think if you're going to make a wish, you know, throw a Susan D.
Speaker D:
Anthony or something like that.
Speaker D:
A wish should be something big.
Speaker D:
So invest a little bit of money, man.
Speaker D:
Throw it.
Speaker D:
You know, throw at least a quarter, you know.
Speaker D:
You know, silver dollar in.
Speaker D:
You know, if you're gonna wish, wish big.
Speaker C:
Yeah, there's inflation.
Speaker C:
The cost of wishes should go up, too.
Speaker C:
Right?
Speaker A:
You know, that's exactly.
Speaker D:
It's not like I'm wishing for, you know, you know, McDonald's fry.
Speaker D:
I'm wishing for, you know, genie's gotta pop out of a bottle, man.
Speaker D:
Come on.
Speaker A:
I love that inflation is impacting the cost of wishes.
Speaker D:
Yeah.
Speaker A:
Let's go to question number three.
Speaker A:
Back to you, David.
Speaker A:
Coca Cola has launched Simply Pop, a new prebiotic soda that's com set up to compete with Poppy and Olipop.
Speaker A:
Rank your favorite sodas.
Speaker A:
They don't have to be a prebiotic soda, but rank them, please, from one to three, one being the best.
Speaker D:
This is a bad question for me.
Speaker D:
I'm not really a soda drinker.
Speaker C:
Yeah, you're not A soda guy, Are you?
Speaker D:
No, but, like, if.
Speaker D:
If I had to have a soda, I'd have a Coke.
Speaker D:
Like just a, you know, kind of.
Speaker D:
And probably a Coke Zero.
Speaker D:
But what I do love, and you know, I'll take this a little off topic, is all of the new adaptogenic and non alcoholic cocktails, okay?
Speaker D:
An Athletic Brewing or a Pete Dill or Brez or any of those.
Speaker D:
Like, they're all good, and I think they're all killing it.
Speaker D:
I think Coke's way late to the game on this one.
Speaker D:
You know, they failed with.
Speaker D:
Aha.
Speaker D:
I think they'll fail with this one.
Speaker D:
They're just not.
Speaker D:
Yeah, they're just too late, slow to pull the trigger.
Speaker C:
Okay.
Speaker C:
All right, last one, Lisa.
Speaker C:
SNL celebrated its 50th anniversary this past weekend.
Speaker C:
Who in your mind is the greatest SNL cast member of all time?
Speaker C:
And there may or may not be a right answer here.
Speaker B:
I mean, I think by far and away for me, it's Gilda Radner.
Speaker B:
I think she is unassuming.
Speaker B:
Like, she could do every skit every time.
Speaker B:
I think Adam Sandler said it best in his song rendition.
Speaker B:
The first did it best.
Speaker B:
I mean, you could pick any one of those five firsts.
Speaker B:
But Gilda got a special place in my heart.
Speaker B:
So I just think she was unassuming and hilarious.
Speaker C:
All right, David, what's yours?
Speaker C:
And I'll go to you too, David, what's yours?
Speaker D:
You know, there's so many good ones.
Speaker D:
It'd be tough to choose between, you know, Hayter or Phil Hartman.
Speaker D:
But I'm, I'm a Dana Carvey guy when I watched it the most.
Speaker D:
And, like, you know, the church lady is still one of the great characters of all time, so.
Speaker C:
Nice, Ed.
Speaker A:
Oh, I gotta say, Farley, I mean, he was really like, I related to him because of his Midwest roots, and I just thought, like, he was.
Speaker A:
With the amount of passion that he put into every single character that he portrayed, I think you got to give it to Farley.
