In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M's David Brown and Chad Lusk join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga as they discuss:

- Amazon’s gobsmacking first-ever reported ad revenue figures.

- Another airport-based convenience retailer, this time a British one, WHSmith, licensing Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” tech in LaGuardia airport. How daft!

- Macy’s latest in store partnership that, let’s just say, left us in a bloody twist.

- DoorDash charging McDonald’s extra for making its delivery drivers just sit there faffing around while waiting too long for their orders

- And 7-Eleven’s new partnership with GrubHub that left me, for one, absolutely flummoxed.

There’s all that, plus our favorite handyman jobs around the house and “after-dark” teddy bears.

Yes, you read that last sentence right. It is a real thing.

To learn more about Microsoft, visit: www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/r…cloud-for-retail

To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: www.alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/

To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/

To learn more about Sezzle, visit: www.sezzle.com/

Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/

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