In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Hemant Kalbag joined Anne as they debated:

-An Earth Day Resale PR blitz from multiple retailers, including Target partnering up once again with ThredUP.

-Zara’s new knockout high-tech, half-warehouse flagship store in Madrid finally enabling mobile self-checkout for apparel.

- Meta giving creators the green light to sell virtual goods in the metaverse

- Santa Monica Place offering small businesses single day to 12 month leases leveraging Macerich’s QuikSpace platform

- And closed with a discussion about the most important uses for Wakefern’s Simbe Robotics Trial run

There’s all that, plus our favorite J-Lo songs, coffee-making robots, and the Etsy product most worth joining the seller strike for.

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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