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:

• Amazon’s plans to copycat Shein and Temu (Source: CNBC)
• Target lowering its in-store theft threshold from $100 to $50 (Source: Bloomberg)
• Tesco piloting on-pack, scannable QR codes (Source: Grocery Gazette)
• Tiptop adding the new wrinkle of trade-ins to its BNPL offering (Source: Digital Transaction)
• And we closed with yet another look at the future of smart carts through the lens of Shoprite’s further expansion of its Instacart Caper Cart pilot to more stores (Source: Retail Dive)

There’s all that, plus this month’s OmniStar (congrats Diana Marshall of Sam’s Club), how Chris would improve the Delta Sky Club, dating app wingmen, and who Anne would most want to call the play-by-play of a 10-minute recap video of her life.

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