Target Goes Factory-Direct, Walmart Goes Dark & Starbucks Revamps Its Hiring Process | Fast Five

Omni Talk Retail · Jul 2, 2025 · 50m · transcript

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

Walmart testing dark stores (Source)

Wegmans piloting Instacart’s smart carts (Source)

Target exploring factory-direct shipping models similar to Shein and Temu (Source)

Hibbett’s launch of a kid-focused app and website (Source)

Starbucks retooling its hiring process for baristas (Source)

And gStore from GreyOrange’s General Manager, Troy Siwek stopped by for 5 Insightful Minutes to give us the lowdown on what technologies…