Cookies, Amazombies & The Target Chatbot Store Associates Reportedly Hate | Fast Five
In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Ownit AI, Avalara, Mirakl, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:
If Target’s new in-store chatbot is really the “sh*tbot” Forbes makes it out to be (Source: Forbes)
Best Buy’s push into video (Source: Chain Store Age)
Simbe Robotics’ new remote planogram monitoring solution (Source: Grocery Dive)
Google’s big Chrome cookie pivot (Source: WSJ)
And closed with a look at whether any retailers should let Amazombies, aka Amazon package returners, into their stores (Source: Yahoo News)
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