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Oct 2024
29m 55s

Sam’s Club’s New Store, Kroger’s Disney ...

Omni Talk Retail
About this episode

This week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail GroupOwnit AIAvalaraMirakl, and Ocampo Capital, was recorded live in front of an audience at Groceryshop. This week Chris and Anne discussed:

  • Sam’s Club’s bold new store concept (Source)
  • Instacart adding gamification to its Caper smart cart (Source)
  • An Amazon and Whole Foods executive reportedly calling Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology “cumbersome” (Source)
  • Google adding new visual search shopping features in time for the holidays (Source)
  • And closed with a look at the retail subscription landscape in light of Kroger’s new tie-up with Disney+ (Source)

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