April 19, 2025
Why Would Ulta Pause Its Target Expansion Plans?
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Videos
April 18, 2025
AI Trend Forecasting: Walmart's Secret Fashion Weapon!
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April 18, 2025
Hy-Vee's Smart Strategy Pivot Away From Dining & Drinking
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April 18, 2025
Invisible Barcodes: The Innovation You'll Never See (And That’s The Point)
Retailers and grocers, in particular, have more than their share of problems to tackle. From keeping customers happy to thwarting theft (and everything in between), store managers have just about the toughest job out there. Fortunately, there is one new innovation on the horizon that could make things much easier.…
April 18, 2025
Ulta's Target Rollback: CEO Kecia Steelman's Bold Move
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April 18, 2025
Ulta's Target Pause: What The Heck Is Going On?
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April 17, 2025
Sam's Club Has Nowhere To Go But Up!
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April 17, 2025
Ulta Pauses Its Target Expansion? Something Doesn't Add Up
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April 17, 2025
Lisbon Fall 2022: My Most Embarrassing Face Plant!
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April 17, 2025
Bezos Faceplants, Festivals & Crosswalks | Omni Talk Lightning Round Gets Wild 🎤
This week’s lightning round, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, is packed with laughs and unexpected questions. Chris and Anne start by debating what the official Omni Talk uniform would be, inspired by Starbucks’ new black-on-green dress code (0:01). Then they…
April 17, 2025
Hy-Vee Shuts Down In-Store Bars | Is Experiential Retail Dying?
In this Omni Talk Retail Fast Five discussion, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne explore Hy-Vee’s decision to shutter most in-store bars and eliminate full-service dining in favor of counter-only service (0:02). Chris critiques the overuse of “experiential…
April 17, 2025
DoorDash Empowers Restaurants with AI Tools | Better Photos, Menus & Visibility
In this Omni Talk Retail Fast Five segment, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne dig into DoorDash’s latest AI feature rollout for restaurant partners (0:02). The tools include an AI-powered camera for high-quality food photos, an item description…
April 17, 2025
Is Sam’s Club Being Too Optimistic About Its Growth Potential?
In this Omni Talk Retail Fast Five episode, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne dive into Sam’s Club’s bold plan to open 15 clubs annually and remodel all 600 existing locations in the U.S. (0:02). Backed by strong…
April 17, 2025
Walmart’s AI Fashion Tool | Trend to Product Speeds Up Design by 18 Weeks
In this episode of Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne dive into Walmart’s latest AI-powered innovation: the Trend-to-Product tool (0:03). The duo explains how the tool uses generative AI to produce trend-driven mood…
April 17, 2025
Why In The World Would Ulta Pause Its Target Expansion?
In this episode of the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, brought to you by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand,Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga break down Ulta's surprising decision to pause its shop-in-shop rollout with Target. Despite Target touting strong beauty performance, Ulta…
April 17, 2025
Walmart’s Trend-to-Product AI Sam’s Club’s Expansion & Ulta’s Pregnant Pause At Target
In this April 16, 2025 episode of the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga take listeners through this week’s biggest stories in retail innovation and disruption: Ulta & Target Break Update…
April 14, 2025
The Biggest Mistake That Ruins Your Burrito
Watch this week's Retail Fast Five Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2R3c0ZxsU #retail #onlineshopping
April 13, 2025
Val Kilmer's ICONIC Role: Batman, Iceman, or Doc Holliday?
Watch this week's Retail Fast Five Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2R3c0ZxsU #retail #onlineshopping
April 13, 2025
Old Navy's Bold Move: AI and RFID Rollout
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April 13, 2025
The Grandpa Anecdote: Why Instacart Will Call Is Brilliant
Watch this week's Retail Fast Five Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2R3c0ZxsU #instacart #retail #onlineshopping
April 13, 2025
Future of Product Discovery: Are YOU Ready?
Watch this week's Retail Fast Five Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2R3c0ZxsU #amazon #retail #onlineshopping
April 12, 2025
How Best Buy Storefronts Shakes Up Influencer Marketing
Watch this week's Retail Fast Five Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2R3c0ZxsU #bestbuy #retail #onlineshopping
April 12, 2025
Amazon's Agentic AI Play: Retail Media Power Grab?
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April 12, 2025
What's The Difference Between GenAI & Agentic AI?
Watch our full interview with David Dorf of AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1aytsXE3Ig #aws #amazon #ai