What This Year’s Super Bowl Tells Us About The Future Of Commerce
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Why Most Retailers Will Never Transform With AI (And That’s Okay)
Everyone is chasing AI transformation, but where should your AI dollars really go?
The Five Trends From FMI 2026 That Actually Matter (And What The Merchants Were Really Saying)
GLP-1 reshaping center store. In-store media becoming the third leg. Agentic commerce hitting a reality wall. Private brand opportunity widening but execution lagging. Shelf intelligence moving from edge to table stakes. Five major themes. More interviews than I can count. These were my lessons learned from FMI Midwinter 2026.
The Death of Optimization-First Retail: Four Lessons from NRF 2026
Tariffs reshaping supply chains. AI’s hallucination problem exposed. Just-in-time dead, just-in-case reborn. Warehouse clubs dominating omnichannel. Four major themes. Twenty executive interviews. These were just some of my lessons learned from NRF 2026.
All The Things I Think I Think About What I Got Right And Wrong About Retail In 2025
A CEO fired in 100 days. A retail icon’s stock down 49%. Membership clubs crushing every metric. Nine predictions. One year of chaos. How well did I call 2025’s retail winners and losers?
Grocery’s Uncomfortable Truth: Rich People Are Showing Us the Future
The increase in e-grocery sales, especially among affluent households, indicates a significant shift in retail behavior. Households earning $100K or more are driving this trend due to convenience, time savings, and price transparency. As e-grocery becomes the preferred choice, traditional grocers may face challenges adapting to evolving consumer demands.
My 2025 Superlatives: What This Year’s Winners Tell Us About Retail’s Future
One giant integration announcement. A technology both revolutionary and catastrophically overhyped. An entire industry rushing toward a cliff like lemmings. Are we watching retailers accidentally create the monster that will devour them all? Chris Walton’s 2025 superlatives definitely don’t disappoint.
Let’s Slow The Roll On Agentic Commerce
805% AI traffic growth. Sounds impressive. Until you stop and think about. Are retailers about to hand Big Tech the keys to their kingdom all over again?
Why No One Will Ultimately Want What Whole Foods Is Now Trying To Sell Them
A $13.7 billion acquisition. Years of stagnant growth. Robots now fetching Pepsi while shopping organic produce. Are we watching Amazon destroy a once proud brand?
Starbucks Inadvertently Proved Its Coffee Shop Experience Doesn’t Matter . . . For Some People
Hello Omni Talk Fans! As many of you likely know, last week Starbucks announced that its coffee delivery business is a… Continue Reading
Is Target Clearing The Decks For An Amazon Buyout?
Two retailers. Same-day layoffs. One very strange CEO succession plan. Are we watching Target prepare for an Amazon buyout?
Walmart Just Fired A Big A** AI Shot At Amazon’s Search Dominance
How Walmart’s ChatGPT Partnership Weaponizes Its 4,600 Stores to Challenge Amazon’s E-Commerce Dominance in the AI Era
Amazon vs. Walmart & Why the Box May Soon Be on the Other Porch
The 2025 retail landscape reveals that success depends not on channel dominance or store size, but on the speed of adaptation across convenience, value, and brand touchpoints, with Walmart outpacing Amazon by leveraging its grocery foundation while innovating in logistics and technology. Traditional competitive advantages are eroding as warehouse clubs use technology like cashierless checkout to flip the convenience-value equation, and creative merchandising remains essential for driving foot traffic in an increasingly complex omnichannel world.Retry
These Two Forces Will Decide If Your Local Grocery Store Survives the Next Decade
When Ocado CEO Tim Steiner predicted that online grocery would become more profitable than physical stores within 10 years, only 2 people out of 500 believed him. But after running the numbers on rising labor costs and e-commerce automation gains, the math reveals he might actually be right, prompting the question: Is the grocery industry prepared?
Never Put The Smart Cart Before The Store
Every year around this time smart carts start hitting the news. You can almost wind your watch to it. At… Continue Reading
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