Amazon High Jinks, The Grocery War & Why The Bank Of Walmart Is Now Open For Business

04/24/24 • 42 min

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:

Walmart’s new BNPL offering (Source: CNBC)
Grubhub’s Mercato partnership (Source: Chain Store Age)
Amazon’s low cost subscription grocery delivery plan (Source: Reuters)
Instagram getting AI-powered search (Source: Daily Star)
And closed with a look at the WSJ report last week that Amazon was running a secret operation to gain intel on its rivals (Source: WSJ)

There’s all that, plus Milwaukee hotels, death by lady bugs, and grooming tips for hairless dachshunds.

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P.P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/

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In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:

Walmart’s new BNPL offering (Source: CNBC)
Grubhub’s Mercato partnership (Source: Chain Store Age)
Amazon’s low cost subscription grocery delivery plan (Source: Reuters)
Instagram getting AI-powered search (Source: Daily Star)
And closed with a look at the WSJ report last week that Amazon was running a secret operation to gain intel on its rivals (Source: WSJ)

There’s all that, plus Milwaukee hotels, death by lady bugs, and grooming tips for hairless dachshunds.

P.P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/

P.P.P.S. Also be sure to check out our #1 podcast ranking in all of retail on Feedspot

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Previous Episode

Canadian Walmart Stores Of The Future, Gopuff & Something New Called “Aldigo”

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:

Walmart Canada’s big store of the future reveal (Source: Canadian Grocer)
Gopuff’s debut of “Powered by Gopuff” (Source: Chain Store Age)
A NYC Chicken restaurant that has replaced its cashiers with Zoom (Source: 404 Media)
Aldi retrofitting a store to become checkout-free with Grabango (Source: Chain Store Age)
Their perspectives on the Amazon Just Walk Out vs. Dash Cart debate (Source: GeekWire)
And A&M’s Chad Lusk stopped by for 5 Insightful Minutes on the state of U.S. consumer sentiment (Source: A&M CRG)

There’s all that, plus Oreos vs. Softbatch cookies, whether Chris would like to drive a cab more in NYC or Paris, and if Anne agrees with Chicagoans who despise putting ketchup on their hot dogs.

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Next Episode

Walmart's Health Hub Exit, Best Buy's CNET Partnership & Nordstrom's Marketplace Mirakl

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:

Walmart’s out-of-nowhere decision to shut down all 51 of its health centers (Source: Bloomberg)
Best Buy’s “groundbreaking” new partnership with CNET (Source: Best Buy Press Release)
Tesco bringing EagleAI’s gamification to its loyalty program (Source: Tesco Press Release)
Walmart launching its first new private label food line in two decades, aka bettergoods (Source: Bloomberg)
And closed with a look at why Nordstrom launching a new digital marketplace may just be the Mirakl it needs (Source: Retail Dive)

There’s all that, plus this month’s OmniStar (congrats Ryan Nalette of Bob’s Discount Furniture), Chris V4.7, the vagaries of selling live chickens, and why jalapeños should be branded like Dole Pineapples or Chiquita Bananas.

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