Fast Five | Walmart Picks Robots Over People, Goodwill Goes Digital, & TikTok Does Warehousing
In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Silk, Chris and Anne: - Discussed Walmart’s bevy of robot-related news, from the purchase of Alert Innovation to its new next-generation fulfillment center in Atlanta, i.e. the very same warehouse, where it should also be noted, Walmart recently laid off almost 1,500 people. - Got even more heated than usual arguing over whether TikTok should be building its own e-commerce warehouses. - Applauded Goodwill for what appears to be a Herculean effort to stand up its own…
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