In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne discussed:

The utter absurdity of Target’s Acceleration Office (Source)
Sam’s Club’s new pizza delivery play (Source)
Lowe’s third-party marketplace initiative with Mirakl (Source)
Google’s advances in agentic AI checkout (Source)
And closed with at look at why they both think Nike selling on Amazon again is a bad idea (Source)

There’s all that, plus A&M’s David Schneidman stops by for 5 Insightful Minutes on consumer sentiment, along with everything from personal pan pizzas and travel hacks to how close we are to the living in the world of the Terminator.

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