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

The appointment of Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel to head up Amazon’s grocery strategy (Source)
Whether CPGs will jump at the chance to pay Walmart to test products with Walmart’s actual customers (Source)
If Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol could be getting ahead of himself with his plans for ceramic mugs (Source)
The veracity of Levi’s claims that its partnership with Google Cloud helped it to jump on the “baggy jeans” trend (Source)
And closed by lauding Walmart for increasing its pay scale for regional managers (Source)

There’s all that, plus Justin Honaman of AWS stops by for 5 Insightful Minutes to chat about 2025 and Amazon’s new Retail Ad Service, and we’ve got a more hilarious lightning round than usual filled with deep insights into Chris’s travel and house slipper habits.

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