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Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Duvo and Mirakl.
In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:
Kroger agrees to acquire Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion, with the Pittsburgh grocer keeping its name, headquarters, and myPerks loyalty program as a division of Kroger.
Dick's Sporting Goods launches ScoreCard+, a $99-a-year paid loyalty tier offering $100 in quarterly rewards, free shipping, and exclusive perks.
PlayStation announces it will end physical disc production for new games starting January 2028, shifting fully to digital distribution.

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Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Duvo and Mirakl.
In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:
Target begins tracking unexcused absences and tardiness with a new points-based system launching this September, terminating workers who reach 12 points.
Allstate partners with Macy's and Bloomingdale's to offer enhanced product protection plans at point of sale and online, covering furniture, fine jewelry, appliances, electronics, and more, with Allstate managing claims, repairs, and customer support end-to-end.
Amazon expands its Alexa for Shopping feature to surface 30, 90, and 365-day price history natively on product detail pages, making price transparency conversational and fully contained within its own ecosystem.

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Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Duvo and Mirakl.
In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:
Saks Global exits Chapter 11 as "Exemplar Luxury Group," emerging with a dramatically smaller store footprint, sharply reduced debt, and a new strategic bet on full-price luxury.
Amazon Prime Day 2026 logged $26.4 billion in U.S. online spend across four days — a new record — but Numerator data reveals declining average order sizes and household spend, even as AI-driven traffic and influencer commerce posted striking gains.
Rhode Island becomes the first U.S. state to mandate a 1-to-3 worker-to-machine staffing ratio for self-checkout lanes in grocery stores, setting a regulatory precedent that a half-dozen other states are already moving to follow.

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In this Retail Technology Spotlight series, Chris Walton sits down with Soroosh Seyhoon, Chief Revenue Officer at Zello, to explore how capturing and analyzing frontline voice data is transforming the way retailers understand and manage store operations. From AI-powered in-ear assistants to real-time operational intelligence, Soroosh explains why the conversations happening on the sales floor represent an untapped goldmine of data that most retailers are completely ignoring.
Drawing from deployments across hundreds of store locations, Soroosh shares how Zello is helping retailers move beyond measuring outputs like sales and throughput to finally measuring the inputs, the frontline communications that drive those results. The conversation covers everything from reducing associate turnover and accelerating onboarding to auto-reporting safety incidents and uncovering hidden staffing inefficiencies hiding in plain sight.
From digitizing push-to-talk communications to replacing two-device workflows with a single-pane-of-glass solution, this episode offers a practical roadmap for retailers ready to stop flying blind on what's actually happening on the floor and start building the connected store of the future.
Key Topics Covered:
00:01:44 - The friction points plaguing store operations today and why "hearsay" is running retail
00:05:40 - How voice data transforms store operations from outputs to inputs
00:08:38 - Meet Ella: Zello's AI agent that answers associate questions in real time
00:16:20 - Real-world examples: price check patterns, safety incidents, and broken buttons
00:21:19 - Where retailers should start to get the biggest bang for their buck
00:24:16 - What's next: proactive AI agents, PBX integration, and push to connect

Over 8 years and nearly 200 episodes, the Retail Technology Spotlight Series has featured some of the biggest names and boldest thinkers in retail. Explore the full archive here: https://omnitalk.blog/category/spotlight-series-podcast/
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Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Duvo and Mirakl.
In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:
Lowe's integrates its third-party marketplace into its My Red Vest associate software, putting thousands of marketplace products directly in the hands of store employees at over 1,700 locations.
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper roll out QR codes linking consumers to the American Beverage Association's Good to Know database.
REI gets roasted online after Meta's AI ad tool auto-generated an image of a physically impossible two-handlebar bike, prompting the retailer to unenroll from the tool and issue an apology.

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