Omni Talk Retail

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss all the week's top retail news, including DoorDash's new DashMart online store, CVS inking a deal with PayPal and Venmo, the rumors that Aldi is getting into the checkout-free technology game, 7-Eleven buying Speedway, and Walmart's new omnichannel advertising platform that Chris and Anne just can't agree on. To learn more about FastSensor, visit: https://www.fastsensor.com/retail To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss Amazon meeting with startups to then reportedly launch competing products, Sycamore Partners' plan to merge Belk and JC Penney, Neiman Marcus calling it quits at Hudson Yards, all of retail closing down stores for Thanksgiving, and Rite Aid having no good reason on earth for deploying facial recognition technology for the last eight years. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss the explosive growth in Panera's coffee subscription program, Walmart joining forces with Yahoo (yes, you read that right), LL Bean's decision to broaden its distribution, Domino's new 'fortressing' strategy, and Amazon and Google both getting full up into livestream commerce this week. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern are joined by guest host Ken Pilot to break down all the week's top headlines in retail. This week they talk Amazon's new Dash Smart Shopping Cart, Klarna's Gen-Z shopping event, Apple asking store employees to help customers from home, and Walmart and Amazon now duking it out in the healthcare space. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Omni Talk's Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga turn their podcast spotlight once again on Syte, the intriguing visual AI startup out of Israel. After having Syte founder, Lihi Pinto Fryman, on the show in 2018, this time Chris and Anne sit down with Syte VP of Marketing Gal Fontyn to discuss how the company has evolved, the successes it has had, and how the concept of visual search is now moving into the arena of creating even deeper visual experiences within retail, the likes of which could make visual AI the single most important technology to understand within retail today. **Sponsored Content**This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern welcome guest host Ethan Chernofsky of Placer.ai to talk all the latest news in retail, including Walmart+, Amazon Prime Day moving to October, Harrod's getting into the outlet business, Instagram's new Shop tab, and Venmo launching new tools for small businesses. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga turn their Omni Talk Spotlight on Kate Reidel of Parcel Pending to discuss the evolving landscape of Buy Online, Pickup in store and how locker pickup could soon change the definitions and the availability of the service for retailers everywhere. **Sponsored Content**This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Omni Talk's Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss Shopify's latest move in the online payment space, Shopify Balance, and where the company also plans to go next.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern love Lululemon's acquisition of Mirror, unanimously applaud Brookfield's Fit:Match experiment, are not quite sure what to make of Walgreens' new small format tests, rave about Nike building smaller store footprints, and compare the Gap/Kanye deal to a big bet at the poker table. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/ To read Chris's latest piece on the overhype of VR, visit: https://www.therobinreport.com/sex-china-and-covid-19/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern discuss the sweeping changes in the world of social commerce by way of Snapchat and Instagram, how Tanger Factory Outlets is taking off-price digital, while TJX continues to sit on the digital sidelines, and why 7-Eleven's announcement this week about paying at the pump with your voice could be an easily foreseeable future for how we all pay for gas. To learn more about Takeoff, visit: https://www.takeoff.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy