Episodes
Aug. 14, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Nike Opens Boutique Fitness Concept
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group , Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Nike Opening A Boutique Fitness Concept For the ful...
Aug. 11, 2023
5 Insightful Minutes | In-Store Grocery Tech With Chad Lusk Of The A&M Consumer & Retail Group
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga put the A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s Chad Lusk on the 5-minute hot seat as they discuss the latest technology trends shaping grocery in-store. To access the reference In-Store Technology: Cus...
Aug. 10, 2023
Fast Five | Nike Does Boutique Fitness, Wawa Goes Shelfless & Amazon Debuts Just Walk Out Apparel
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne: Politely disagreed on whether Nike should be getting into the boutique gym business Tried...
Aug. 8, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Gap Selects Former Mattel Exec Richard Dickson As New CEO
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Gap Selecting Former Mattel Exec Richard Dickson As ...
Aug. 8, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Clevon Takes Multi-Parcel Autonomous Delivery To Texas
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Clevon Taking Multi-Parcel Autonomous Delivery To Te...
Aug. 8, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Poshmark Introduces Visual Search With Poshmark Lens
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Poshmark Introducing Visual Search With Poshmark Len...
Aug. 7, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Big Amazon Grocery News Or Bust?
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group , Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Big Amazon Grocery News Or Bust? For the full episo...
Aug. 7, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Bed Bath & Beyond's Rebirth With Overstock
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Bed Bath & Beyond's Rebirth With Overstock For the f...
Aug. 3, 2023
Fast Five | Gap's New CEO, Bed Bath's Rebirth & Amazon Grocery Hyperbole Too Silly To Believe
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five , sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discuss: - Overstock going live with its Bed Bath & Beyond rebranding - The ridiculous hy...
July 28, 2023
Spotlight Series | Everything You Wanted To Know About Generative AI But Were Afraid To Ask
In our latest Spotlight Series Podcast, Anne and Chris learn all they can about generative AI from Amanda Saunders, the Senior Manager for Enterprise and Edge AI Product Marketing at NVIDIA . Together they discuss: – What mak...
July 25, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Target Allows All Employees To Wear Shorts
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Gr...
July 25, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Signet Jewelers Trials Jewelry Rental
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Gr...
July 25, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | H&M To Sell More Third-Party Products
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Gr...
July 24, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Schnucks Throws Instacart A Caper Cart Lifeline
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Gr...
July 24, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | NRF Predicts A Big Back-to-School
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts from the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Gr...
July 20, 2023
Fast Five | Schnucks Gets Smart, NRF Predicts A Big Back-to-School & Target Shorts Itself
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five , sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle, A&M's Abhinav Chandra and Manola Soler joined Chris and Anne to debate: The level of hyperbole in NRF’s ...
July 18, 2023
Ask an Expert | Retail's Mid-Year Report Card With Placer.ai SVP Ethan Chernofsky
If you are in retail, cover retail, or even just like to wow your friends with your retail knowledge at cocktail parties, then you are going to want to listen to this! Placer.ai’s SVP of Marketing Ethan Chernofsky is back to ...
July 18, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Dollar General Pilots Checkout-Free Store
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Dollar General Piloting A Checkout-Free Store For th...
July 18, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Ashley Furniture's New Marketing Tactics
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Ashley Furniture's New Marketing Tactics For the ful...
July 18, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | YouTube Expands In-Video Shopping
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: YouTube Expanding In-Video Shopping For the full epi...
July 17, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Google Kills Online Shopping Marketplace
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Google Kills Its Online Shopping Marketplace For the...
July 17, 2023
Fast Five Shorts | Walmart Keeps Back-to-School Pricing Same As Last Year
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: Walmart Keeping Back-to-School Pricing Same As Last ...
July 13, 2023
Fast Five | Walmart’s Back-to-School Flex, Google Shopping’s Demise & The Prime Day Yawn
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle, Anne and Chris: - Tipped their caps to Walmart for marketing its Back-to-School pricing as the same as la...
July 7, 2023
Spotlight Series | In DTC Commerce, It's Better To Be Lucky Than Good
Lucky Co-Founders Sneh Parmar and Nafis Azad discuss the new way DTC brands are "going direct" through social media with leading companies like Sephora and Walgreens. In this podcast, Chris and Anne go deep with Sneh and Nafi...