In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Quorso, Veloq, and R&S Logistics, Chris Walton is joined by Omni Talk contributor and GrocerTalk host Ben Miller for another round of Fast Five fun, recorded live from the Vusion podcast studio at Groceryshop 2026 in Las Vegas. This week, Walmart fills up, Costco delivers, Harps gets AI, Toys R Us gets bigger, and Meta gets its glasses on.
Chris and Ben break down Walmart+ adding CITGO to its Gas Savings benefit, Costco expanding delivery through DoorDash and Uber Eats, Harps Food Stores naming its first director of AI strategy and innovation, Toys R Us opening 120 new stand-alone stores, and Meta Lab expanding its AI glasses retail footprint. Then, everyone’s favorite A&Mer, Chad Lusk, joins Chris for 5 Insightful Minutes on GLP-1s, wellness, private label, consumer behavior, and why premiumization is still alive.
00:04:39 – Walmart+ Adds CITGO To Its Gas Savings Benefit
00:09:42 – Costco Expands Delivery With DoorDash And Uber Eats
00:14:17 – Harps Food Stores Names Its First Director Of AI Strategy And Innovation
00:19:12 – Chad Lusk On Food, Beverage And The Wellness Shift
00:27:31 – Toys R Us Plans 120 New Stand-Alone Stores
00:32:49 – Meta Lab Expands Its AI Glasses Retail Footprint
00:39:41 – Lightning Round: Prestige TV, The Dictionary, Retail And Pop Culture
The episode closes with a lightning round on which retailer deserves its own prestige TV drama, the words Chris and Ben would add to or remove from the dictionary, and the retail and pop culture questions that somehow come up when these two get talking.
Be careful out there,
The Omni Talk team
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