Amazon's Walmart Play, AI Shopping Protocols & Drone Delivery Wars | Fast Five

In this week's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, Chris and Anne discussed:

1. Amazon's plans to build a 225,000 square foot retail store in Orland Park, Illinois (Source)
2. Google's launch of a Universal Commerce Protocol with backing from major retailers (Source)
3. Circle K expanding its partnership with Corso to over 7,800 US locations (Source)
4. Small merchants upset over Amazon's Buy for Me AI feature listing products without permission (Source)
5. Walmart and Wing scaling drone delivery to 270 stores by 2027 (Source)

And Ulta Beauty's SVP of Digital and E-Commerce, Josh Friedman, also stopped by to share five insightful minutes about Ulta's marketplace plans.

There's all that, plus banana water, birthday drone deliveries, and why Chris thinks Amazon's supercenter concept might be their last retail experiment.

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