Converse In Crisis, Target Trials ChatGPT Ads & C-Stores Push The In-Store AI Envelope

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, Chris and Anne discussed:

Converse employees instructed to work from home ahead of layoffs and restructuring at the struggling Nike brand (Source)
Co-op launching a gender pay gap toolkit ahead of new UK regulations (Source)
Target and Albertsons testing conversational advertising inside ChatGPT (Source)
American Eagle building its largest creator community yet with a rewards-based micro-influencer program (Source)
Independent convenience stores deploying AI voice insights across 5,200 locations (Source)

And Stripe’s Chief Revenue Officer of AI, Maia Josebachvili, stopped by to give us 5 Insightful Minutes on how retailers can set themselves up for success in the new world of agentic commerce.

And, in partnership with Quorso, and together with Jenn, we handed out this month’s OmniStar Award to Kristin Popp, Executive Vice President of Woodman’s Food Market and President of Women’s Grocers of America, fresh off being named Woman of the Year at the NGA Show.

There’s all that, plus curling drama at the Winter Olympics, Robert Duvall’s Mount Rushmore, and what one thing from 2016 our hosts would bring back.

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Be careful out there,

– Chris, Anne, and the Omni Talk team

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