In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, Chris and Anne discussed:

• Walmart’s gas station expansion strategy (Source)
• Quorso’s intelligent store management platform rollout with Circle K Europe (Source)
• Target’s new floral owned brand (Source)
• Trove’s acquisition of reverse.supply (Source)
• And closed with a look at why Walmart’s 40 store beauty bar test could herald even more sales growth in Walmart’s future (Source)

There’s all that, plus pasta shapes, Papal naming, and the latest spectator sport, sperm racing.

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