Fast Five | Walmart Is Automating, Target Is Backtracking, & Amazon Is Smoking A Drone Pipe Dream
In this week’s podcast, special guests A&M’s Chad Lusk and Truett Horne stop by to discuss all the week’s top news with Chris and Anne.
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In this week’s podcast, special guests A&M’s Chad Lusk and Truett Horne stop by to discuss all the week’s top news with Chris and Anne.

Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Talkdesk’s VP Global Industry Strategy for Retail & Consumer Goods and fellow Top 100 Retail Influencer Shannon Flanagan to discuss all the ways retail contact centers need to evolve.

Chris and Anne discuss Dollar General’s self-checkout pilot, Sephora’s “curbcierge” service, UPS buying Delivery Solutions, Tortoise at MOA, and Old Navy reversing course on inclusivity.

Chris and Anne discuss Amazon’s new apparel store, the ridiculousness of Walmart’s drone announcement, Wayfair’s new store, Firework’s money raise, and Nordstrom shutting down Trunk Club.

Omni Talk Retail asked Firework CEO and Co-Founder Vincent Yang to provide his mid-year report on the state of livestreaming across retail.

Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd’s CMO Indy Guha to learn all they can about the latest fiendish effort being used to defraud consumers, aka Account Takeover (or AKO, if you are in the know).

A&M’s David Ritter and Mike Simoncic join Chris and Anne to give their take on this week’s earnings reports, Instacart’s IPO, Zara’s new return policy, Peloton’s troubles, and Walmart’s college hiring push.

Talkdesk’s Genesis Miranda Longo and Antonio Gonzalez provide their expert opinions on how to think about the future of customer service and loyalty.

Scandit CTO Christian Floerkermeier discusses how almost anything in a store can be turned into a smart device.

Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss what it takes to scale computer vision across thousands of store locations with Rafay’s CEO Haseeb Budhani and HP’s VP of Retail and Industry Solutions Cory McElroy.

Chris and Anne discuss IKEA’s store investment plans, Adidas and Foot Locker, Unilever’s mobile ice cream stores, Sweetgreen’s digital pickup-only concept, and how to look at Starbucks and its digital future.

In this week’s podcast, Chris & Anne discuss Publix’s new partnership with Instacart, HEB’s new store, Verizon expanding pickup lockers, Target’s new nail robot, and Victoria’s Secret selling on Amazon.

Chris and Anne discuss the latest additions to Amazon’s biggest Amazon Go store yet, new store concepts from Meta and MorningSave, Buy with Prime, and a radical new supply chain idea out of American Eagle.

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Andrew Jassy’s letter to shareholders, Lululemon’s new paid membership, Caper Counter, the new Champs store concept, and Pensa at Lunds & Byerlys.

In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Hemant Kalbag… Continue Reading

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