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Chris and Anne cover Walmart Canada’s store of the future, Gopuff’s new “Powered by Gopuff” service, a NYC restaurant replacing cashiers with Zoom, and Aldi’s checkout-free store retrofit with Grabango. The duo also shared their thoughts on the Amazon Just Walk Out vs. Dash Cart debate and welcomed A&M’s Chad Lusk for a discussion on U.S. consumer sentiment.
In this episode of the Retail Fast Five, Chris and Anne are joined by A&M’s Abhinav Chandra and Ben Lowden to discuss TikTok’s new creator commission structure, Walmart+’s advantage in the self-checkout debate, Nike’s return to wholesale, Shein’s “Supply Chain as a Service” offering, and Amazon’s entry into same-day pharmacy delivery.
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.
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, and also make a few 2024 predictions!
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.
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon’s Hyundai partnership, whether or not Gap’s turnaround has begun, Walgreens’ plans to ship more from its stores, what appears to be a brewing dumpster fire at Kohl’s, and the new Toys R Us flagship store at the Mall of America.
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.
Omni Talk Retail’s Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga put the 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.
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.
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