In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne discussed:
- Best Buy storefronts and where influencer commerce will go next (Source)
- Instacart’s introduction of “Will Call” Delivery (Source)
- Old Navy rolling out Radar’s RFID solution to 1,200 stores (Source)
- San Diego banning digital-only grocery store coupons (Source)
- And closed with a look at just how game-changing Amazon’s implementation of AI agents to shop third-party sites could be (Source)
There’s all that, plus David Dorf of AWS stops by for 5 Insightful Minutes on Agentic AI, and Chris and Anne also discuss tariff stockpiling, soggy doggy burritos and which animal species Anne would most like to see brought back from extinction.
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Be careful out there,
– Chris, Anne, and the Omni Talk team
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