Hello Omni Talk Fans! This week’s podcast was chock full of great headlines, as Anne and I could barely keep our butts in our chairs as we covered this week’s news. 

The week brought a little bit of everything, from important innovation milestones to Woodward and Bernstein-esque type scandals.

All of which we hope will make for some great July 4th holiday weekend listening!

In today’s Fast Five Podcast, Anne and I:

- Took another victory lap on our long held position that Mark Tritton’s tenure at Bed Bath & Beyond would be short-lived.

- Highlighted the importance of Trigo’s second autonomous grocery store implementation with Rewe in Berlin, which places it squarely in the lead as the “non-Amazon” option in the battle for checkout-free grocery retailing.

- Lauded Amazon for rolling out a new analytics platform for CPGs that works off its own “Just Walk Out” technology.

- Praised Gap for doing something every retailer should do – i.e. invest in lab stores.

- And closed with a question about just how far up the leadership ladder Walmart’s FTC troubles over money transfers could go.

- There’s all that, plus muscle biopsies, fake tanning on a budget, and Anne’s new favorite alcoholic beverage that can only be described as a “Hot Mezz.”

Listen to This Week’s Fast Five Podcast

Be careful out there,

-- Chris, Anne, and the entire Omni Talk team

P.S. Want to see why we are so high on the Trigo and Rewe announcement this week?

Check out the below raw and uncut “supermarket sweep” style video we shot when we visited their first store in Cologne to get a perfect sense of how fast and easy grocery experiences will become in the future.