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Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by ZenlineAI and Mirakl. In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses: Amazon unveils a 12-day Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday event with record exclusives and an AI-powered Alexa for Shopping that can track deals and auto-buy products. Gopuff becomes the first company to offer full in-chat shopping and checkout inside Grok Bot, with delivery in as fast as 15 minutes. McDonald’s brings real-time earned wage access

The holiday shopping season is officially kicking into high gear, and retail is getting interesting! Chris Walton welcomes two first-time Fast Five guest hosts, former Patagonia VP of Digital Angela Clark and former Chief Merchant at Petco and 7-Eleven Jack Stout, for a packed episode covering Amazon's new text-to-shop experience, CVS Health's big breakup, Ahold Delhaize USA's technology overhaul, Disney's TikTok Shop holiday push, and DoorDash's growing ambitions as a full-fledged retailer. Sp

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by ZenlineAI and Mirakl. In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses: Uber Eats rolls out “Shop for me,” letting customers order from local stores that never signed up unless those stores opt out. Dollar General and pOpshelf go live on Instacart across roughly 20,000 stores, completing DG’s delivery partnerships with all three major aggregators. DeCicco & Sons expands Simbe’s Tally shelf-scanning robots chainwide af

There's never a dull moment in grocery retail, and this week, Ben Miller welcomes back GrocerTalk's very first returning guest, Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures at IGD. With Ben fresh off a week of retail media dinners, industry awards, and an exclusive Instacart interview, and Stewart diving into global retail trends for 2027, the two have plenty to catch up on. Sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, Vusion, and Sifter Solutions, Ben and Stewart take a broader look at what it t

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by ZenlineAI and Mirakl. In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses: Zipline raises $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation to scale U.S. drone manufacturing, as Walmart adds 300 more Zipline delivery sites. McDonald’s names Uber Eats its preferred delivery partner for orders in the McDonald’s app and links its rewards program to Uber rides, as Uber responds to DoorDash’s deal to buy Instacart. Kroger aims to sou

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by ZenlineAI and Mirakl. In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses: Amazon lets shoppers text Alexa for Shopping, turning a text thread into an AI agent that can search, compare and buy on their behalf. Under Armour cuts another 25% of SKUs, pushes full-price product into outlets and licenses its youth business as revenue falls 7%. Walgreens opens its 15th robotic micro-fulfillment center in Allentown, Pennsylvani