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A&M’s Truett Horne and Jeff Dwyer join Chris and Anne to discuss Walmart selling off Bonobos at a steep discount, Lululemon reportedly looking to do the same with Mirror, looming troubles at the West Coast Ports, ShopRite upping its in-store retail media network game, and Petco rolling out a new recycling program.
A&MCRG’s Jonathan Sharp shares the most important insights from the A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s latest installment of their ongoing Consumer Sentiment Survey in just five minutes!
A&M’s Billy Christensen and Lakshman Lakshmanan join Chris and Anne to discuss Panera rolling out Amazon One palm payments, Choice Market’s plans to scale its mini-stores, Gap calling it quits on its retail media network, an interesting new pricing strategy from Telfar, and why in the world Levi’s would want to use AI in place of human models.
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Joanna Rangarajan join Chris and Anne to discuss Walmart enforcing a new in-office policy for its tech workers, UPS expanding its smart package RFID initiative, Lidl saying it plans to reduce the amount of meat products it sells, FIT:MATCH updating its fit scanning technology, and Wegmans deciding to pilot Shopic smart carts after discontinuing scan-and-go just a few months ago.
In today’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Jonathan Sharp and Michael Prendergast joined Chris and Anne to discuss the Walmart and Salesforce partnership, Starbucks going national with DoorDash, Rent The Runway’s Amazon Storefront, Trigo’s first U.S. store, and Portillo’s making its drive-thrus cashless in the name of safety.
The A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s David Schneidman discusses how CPGs need to look at revenue and margin management (i.e. RMM) amid the ever present challenges of inflation, increasing omnichannel complexity, labor shortages, and rising customer acquisition costs.
In our last Fast Five Podcast of 2022, two of our favorite guests, A&M’s David Ritter and David Brown, join Chris and Anne to recognize the best in retail over the past year.
In our latest 5 Insightful Minutes, the A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s Hemant Kalbag shares what strategies retailers should be putting into practice as they head into what could be a very rough Holiday season.
A&M’s Jonathan Sharp and Billy Christensen stop by to discuss Target’s recent struggles along with its new larger format store, Gap opening a store on Amazon, TikTok piloting in-app commerce, Victoria’s Secret’s new fit tech partnership, and Nike’s launch of .Swoosh.
The Alvarez & Marsal Consumer & Retail Group’s John Clear gets hit with tough questions from Omni Talk Retail, as he shares the most important insights from his company’s latest white paper on the pros and cons of Just Walk Out technology adoption in just five minutes!
A&M’s Chad Lusk and Patricia Hong stop by to discuss the Albertsons-Kroger merger, the NFL’s plan to broadcast is first-ever Black Friday football game via Amazon, P&G getting more aggressive with its advertising, Shein doing resale, and what Veeve’s latest funding round says about the future of smart carts.
A&M’s Mohit Mohal and David Ritter join Chris and Anne to discuss Starbucks’ plans to load balance online orders, Nike’s new sustainable fabric, Wegmans calling it quits on scan-and-go, Tuesday Morning’s liferaft, and Target’s new FAO Schwarz partnership.
A&M’s David Brown and Abhinav Chandra stop by to discuss this week’s earnings reports, Ahold Delhaize & Albertsons rumors, Amazon and QuikTrip, Facebook and DoorDash, and why Walmart executives may be making way too much of their new streaming deal with Paramount.
A&M’s Michael Prendergast shares the most important insights from the A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s latest report on Fast Fashion in just five minutes!
A&M’s Hemant Kalbag and Jonathan Sharp joined Chris and Anne to discuss Prime Day, Macy’s expanding Toys R Us, Kroger’s national rollout of its Boost membership program, the big reveal from a Google executive about search, and the WSJ’s report that Amazon has considered exiting its private label business.
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