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Starbucks Returns To Office, Shopify Blocks Bots & Kraft Heinz Seeks Couples Therapy | Fast Five


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In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail GroupSimbeMiraklOcampo CapitalInfios, and ClearDemand, A&M’s Chad Lusk and David Brown joined Chris and Anne to discuss:

  • Kraft Heinz’s breakup plans – The food giant is preparing to spin off a large chunk of its grocery business into a new $20 billion entity, a decade after the infamous Warren Buffett-orchestrated merger (Source)
  • Return to office mandates – Both Starbucks and Target issued new in-person work requirements, with Starbucks mandating four days (Monday-Thursday) and Target requiring three flexible days per week (Source)
  • Tariff-driven inflation concerns – Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June as President Trump’s tariffs push up costs on furniture, clothing, and appliances, potentially impacting holiday shopping (Source)
  • Supermarkets losing younger shoppers – Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X increasingly favor Walmart and Aldi over traditional supermarkets, with 22% of Gen Z shoppers choosing each retailer for their most recent grocery trip (Source)
  • Shopify sets AI boundaries – The e-commerce platform is blocking agentic AI bots from completing purchases without human review, adding new restrictions to protect merchants from unauthorized automation (Source)

And AWS’s Daniele Stroppa also dropped by to help us hand out a new award we are giving out each month in partnership with AWS, and we are calling it the Retail Startup of the Month – this month’s winner is Bria AI, a visual generative AI platform that helps brands create compliant, on-brand content at scale.

There’s all that, plus discussions on AI influencers taking Wimbledon by storm, cranky Nextdoor neighbors, and whether Alex Cooper was rightly booed at Wrigley Field last week.

P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/

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