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Joanna Rangarajan and Cassie Ryding join Chris and Anne this week to discuss Walmart’s Vizio acquisition, Target’s new brand, “dealworthy,” Starbucks’ new loyalty partnership with Bank of America, Hasbro’s drastic sku reduction, and Walmart’s EV charging network.
Retail experts from the A&M Consumer and Retail Group analyze the emerging technologies transforming grocery store operations and shopping experiences at innovative retailer Schnucks, from inventory robots to electronic pricing labels and mobile ordering. The discussion reviews how these retail tech innovations enable improved inventory management, checkout efficiency, dynamic pricing, and an enhanced customer experience.
In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Michael Prendergast and Manola Soler joined Chris and Anne to discuss Macy’s buyout offer, Walmart closing Store No. 8, the PR disaster at Wayfair, IKEA’s new plan and order store rollout, and the #SephoraKids phenomenon.
A&M’s David Ritter and David Brown joined Chris and Anne to hand out this year’s Omni Talk awards.
Anne and Chris put the A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s Chad Lusk on the 5-minute hot seat as he shares with us the most recent findings from their survey on current consumer sentiment heading into the holidays.
In today’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Chris Creyts and Cassie Ryding stopped by to discuss what to make of this week’s earning reports, the new Amazon and Meta partnership, Amazon Buy with Prime Assist, Poshmark’s livestream Secondhand Sunday plans, and the founder of Chipotle’s new restaurant concept that runs on robots.
A&M’s David Schneidman and Truett Horne stop by to discuss Walmart’s new corporate AI guidelines, Amazon’s new AI for product imagery, HomeGoods calling it quits on e-commerce, Kroger’s sustainable media push, and the rebirth of BuyBuy Baby.
In this week’s episode of the Retail Fast Five, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Ben Lowden joined Chris and Anne to discuss Dick’s shrinkage problem, Aldi’s major store expansion plans, Etsy’s new baby registry, Trader Joe’s hubris surrounding self-checkout, and Amazon’s decision to lay waste to a large number of its private label brands.
Chris Walton and Anne put the A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s Chad Lusk on the 5-minute hot seat as they discuss the latest trends shaping in-store grocery technology.
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, A&M’s Abhinav Chandra and Manola Soler joined Chris and Anne to discuss NRF’s Back-to-School predictions, Schnucks piloting smart carts with Instacart, H&M selling more third-party products, Signet Jewelers offering resale, and Target’s decision to allow its store employees to wear shorts.
In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Chad Lusk and David Schneidman join Chris and Anne to discuss Walmart’s partnership with NBCUniversal, Sweetgreen’s plans to deploy robots in EVERY store, REI opening another store devoted entirely to resale, Shein expanding its marketplace, and Mercedes Benz putting ChatGPT into 900,000 cars.
Anne Mezzenga tests out the new made-to-measure custom women’s suiting process at INDOCHINO. Follow along as she goes from the fitting room to the final fit in this video.
A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s John Clear discusses how retailers can approach the looming labor shortage and better retain the employees they already have in just five minutes!
The A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s David Ritter and David Brown joined Chris and Anne to debate this week’s rash of earnings reports, Amazon paying people to pick up their packages, Google using generative AI in search, Amazon’s latest innovation, Amazon Anywhere, that allows it to sell goods directly within video games, and a new startup called Telly that wants to give people free 55 inch TVs in exchange for always-on advertising.
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.
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