Fast Five | Trader Joe’s Hubris, Dick’s Shrinkage & Aldi’s Expansion
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, SPS Commerce, and Sezzle, A&M's Chad Lusk and Ben Lowden joined Anne and Chris to discuss:
Dick’s growing theft problem and what, if anything, the industry can do about it
Aldi’s major 400 store expansion plans
Etsy’s new baby registry
Trader Joe’s claims that it will never put self-checkout machines in its stores
And closed with a look at why Amazon would make such drastic cuts to its private label apparel assortment
There’s all that, plus Publix pup bans, pizza crust proclivities, and what baby…
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