Kroger’s Automation Reset, Starbucks & Why There Ain’t No Party Like A Walgreens Party | Fast Five

Omni Talk Retail · Sep 17, 2025 · 33m · transcript

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

Kroger’s evaluation of its automated e-commerce fulfillment network (Source)

Walgreens dedicating in-store space to party supplies and expanding assortment (Source)

Starbucks deploying computer vision technology to track in-store inventory (Source)

Pacsun announcing the formation of an industry-first youth advisory council (Source)

Nearly half of AI search users preferring AI tools over Google (Source)

There’s all that, plus…