Kroger's New Boss, The AI Ad War & Target's Smoke-Filled Plans To Reinvest In Stores | 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, Shoptalk's Joe Laszlo joined Chris and Anne to discuss:
Kroger's appointment of former Walmart executive Greg Foran as new CEO (Source)
Target cutting 500 jobs while investing in frontline store staffing (Source)
Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign pledging Claude AI will remain ad-free (Source)
Albertsons expanding cart tracking technology to measure retail media effectiveness (Source)
Spotify partnering with Bookshop.org to sell physical books (Source)…
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