Starbucks Ceramic Mugs & Drizzles, Walmart Pay Increases & Amazon’s New Head Of Grocery | Fast Five

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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