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In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:

• Ashley enables customers to shop and buy furniture through Perplexity's AI search engine using PayPal.
• Kroger cancels its Charlotte CFC plans and closes its Nashville spoke facility, paying Ocado $350 million as it reverses course on its ambitious e-commerce automation project.
• Walgreens opens its 13th automated micro-fulfillment center in West Jordan, Utah, expanding a network that now supports over 5,000 stores and fulfills 18 million prescriptions monthly.

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