Amazon’s Temu Rivalry, 7-Eleven & Why Goldman Sachs Thinks 2025 Is The Year Of The Robot | 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 Ocampo Capital , Chris and Anne discuss: Amazon setting aggressive price targets for its rival online store to Temu and Shein ( Source ) 7-Eleven’s “New Standard” format which it plans open across 600 new stores ( Source ) Simbe’s $50 million Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives ( Source ) Wayfair’s new paid subscription loyalty program ( Source ) And closed with a discussion inspired by Marks & Spencer around the now, next, and future of self-checkout within the fitting room ( Source ) There’s all that, plus Doug Tiffan from AWS stops by for 5 Insightful Minutes about AI investments in the fashion & apparel space, along with pre-fab housing, waltzing, and basketball stories from when Chris was a strapping young lad. Music by hooksounds.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy