Fast Five | Amazon’s Just Walk Out Noise, Target’s Self-Checkout Cameras & Why Kroger Spoke Too Soon

In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:The real reasons why Amazon would pull its Just Walk Out Technology out of its Fresh grocery stores and Whole Foods stores (Source: Payments Dive)Target installing cameras above its self-checkout machines (Source: Bloomberg)Kroger closing its three e-commerce facilities (Source: Grocery Dive)Costco offering Ozempic to some of its members (Source: CNN)And closed with a look at Home Depot’s recent acquisition of SRS (Source: Reuters)There’s all that, plus this month’s OmniStar, gig driver nightmares, and all the new ways to screw up a burrito.P.S. We are also gearing up for CommerceNext out in NYC in June. Scaled retailers and brands can register for FREE with code “FASTFIVE” in the referral field. Secure your spot now — head to commercenext.com/conference/ and don’t forget to use “FASTFIVE”P.P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/P.P.P.S. Also be sure to check out our #1 podcast ranking in all of retail on FeedspotMusic by hooksounds.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy