What a few days at Groceryshop 2026. If you weren’t in Las Vegas for the show, this conversation is about as close as you can get to catching up on what mattered.
Recorded live on stage at Groceryshop 2026, Ben Miller, host of GrocerTalk, brings together Chris Walton, President and CEO of Omni Talk Retail, Deborah Weinswig, Founder and CEO of Coresight Research, and Kelly Lindenau, Content Director at Groceryshop, to break down what actually stood out from a week packed with big ideas, big announcements and a whole lot of talk about the future of grocery.
The conversation gets into the questions retailers are wrestling with right now. Where is agentic commerce really going? Is disintermediation becoming the bigger threat? What happens when the LLM starts to become the store? And with shoppers demanding less friction, faster decisions and better value, what does that mean for pricing, private label, marketplaces and the physical store?
Chris, Deborah, Kelly and Ben also trade their favorite AI use cases, stats, quotes and technology takeaways from the show, including why the most important technology on display may not have been the flashiest. They debate what retailers should actually be paying attention to, what might be overhyped, and what could have a real impact on the way people shop.
In this episode:
- Why agentic commerce is still a big question mark for grocery
- The growing threat of disintermediation and what retailers can do about it
- What it means if the LLM becomes the store
- Why “speed of shopping” may matter just as much as speed of delivery
- How marketplaces are changing where and how consumers shop
- Why pricing transparency could change the competitive landscape
- The growing power of private label and retailer-owned brands
- What supermarkets need to do to give shoppers a reason to come back
- The most interesting practical AI use cases from Groceryshop 2026
- The technology, stats and quotes that actually stuck with the panel
- What the group thinks retailers should be watching as we head toward 2027
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