In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, Chris and Anne discussed:
- Amazon’s planned “rush” pickup service for one-hour order collection (Source)
- Instacart’s AI-enabled pricing experiments that may be inflating grocery bills (Source)
- November’s record-breaking $12.3 billion in online grocery sales (Source)
- Target’s new SoHo store concept featuring curated beauty and apparel (Source)
- Ashley’s partnership with Perplexity and PayPal for agentic commerce (Source)
And special guest David Dorf of AWS, one of our favorite recurring guests, dropped by to share his insightful predictions on AI for 2026.
There’s all that, plus Ryan Reynolds at NRF, the world’s largest golden retriever gathering, and whether Chris would smuggle Calvin Klein underwear from a store tour.
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Be careful out there,
– Chris, Anne, and the Omni Talk team
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