Target Bans Dyes, AI Takes 4,000 Jobs At Block & IKEA Opens Its Doors To Sporting Goods | Fast Five

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, Chris and special guests Cassie Ryding and Joanna Rangarajan from the A&M Consumer and Retail Group discussed:

1. Target announcing it will only carry cereals made without certified synthetic colors by the end of May (Source)
2. Block’s Jack Dorsey cutting nearly 4,000 jobs — 40% of its workforce — and replacing that capacity with AI (Source)
3. Schlotzky’s Deli going back to basics with a “deli” rebrand and a next-generation prototype designed to slash operating costs by 20–25% (Source)
4. Walgreens piloting a first-of-its-kind hybrid pharmacist role across six states (Source)
5. IKEA opening its iconic blue box stores to Decathlon in a landmark store-within-a-store pilot in the UK (Source)

There’s all that, plus whether a burrito counts as a sandwich, the McDonald’s CEO’s cringeworthy Big Arch taste test video, and whether any of them are excited about the Scrubs reboot.

Be careful out there,

– Chris, Cassie, Joanna, and the Omni Talk team

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