Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Tesco and Trigo’s new checkout-free store in London, the foolishness of Instacart’s Caper acquisition, Best Buy piloting Scan-&-Go, GoPuff in NYC, and the always unimaginative Walmart+.
Omni Talk Expert Cynthia Power, Recurate VP Brand Success, joins Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the various approaches retailers and brands can take to attack the resale market.
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss a Macy’s e-commerce spinoff, Simon and Klarna, Kroger making moves in the Northeast, Facebook pop-ups, and drive-thru grocery.
Omni Talk expert Julian Mills of Quorso joins Chris Walton to discuss all the ways agile store operations can help already very overworked retail store employees.
Jesse Michael, Managing Director at Adeptmind, returns to the Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series with Mall of America’s VP Marketing Grant Buntje to discuss all that it takes to make the Mall of America shoppable online.
In this week’s Fast Five video, Chris and Anne talk Target’s holiday price matching policy, Amazon’s new gift-giving feature, Gopuff’s new store concept, Aldi Nord’s new checkout-free store, and Sunbasket now on Instacart.
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, Chris and Anne look at Whole Foods delivery math, examine “instant delivery,” talk inventory scanning robots, question HomeGoods’ new e-commerce site, and also ask whether Stitch Fix can reimagine online shopping for apparel.
Chris and Anne recap their highlights from Groceryshop and discuss the growing instant delivery wars, paying with their palms, Walmart labeling health and wellness products, Chick-fil-A’s new virtual storefront, and Amazon fitting rooms.
FRONTdoor Collective CEO Dan Bourgault joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton for a special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd CMO Indy Guha to discuss all the reasons why the grocery industry is facing an unprecedented level of digital fraud and what can be done to stop it.
Cooler Screens Founder and CEO Arsen Avakian, in a special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series, shares with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga how his company is radically changing marketing in-store, one cooler screen at a time.
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer & Retail Group and Takeoff, A&M’s David Ritter and Kristin Kohler Burrows join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to debate Amazon’s impact on wage rates, the layoffs at Casper, Thrasio’s spending spree, Peloton’s move into private label, and Beauty Pie’s $100 million equity raise.
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Chris and Anne discuss Amazon bringing Just Walk Out technology to Whole Foods, Kroger’s expansion into Florida, Walmart and Instacart, Hy-Vee and fitness, and the departure of Target’s CIO.
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