In today's Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Jonathan Sharp and Michael Prendergast join Chris and Anne to discuss the Walmart and Salesforce partnership, Starbucks going national with DoorDash, Rent The Runway’s Amazon Storefront, Trigo’s first U.S. store, and Portillo’s making its drive-thrus cashless in the name of safety.

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Hello Omni Talk Fans! Anne and I made it back from NRF in one piece.

The entire trip went off without a hitch – no travel delays, no rescheduled or canceled interviews, and no disease contraction (at least not yet, that is).

All of which means we were back in studio today for our weekly Fast Five Podcast, where we were joined by the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group’s Jonathan Sharp and Michael Prendergast.

Whenever Jonathan is on the show, you know it is going to be filled with sharp barbs and quick wit!

On this week’s episode, the four of us discussed:

- Our mutual admiration for Walmart’s Salesforce partnership and how Walmart is positioning its technology services.

- Starbucks going national with DoorDash and whether it signals the start of “the third place” being fully replaced by working from home.

- Whether Rent The Runway selling on Amazon is shrewd or just plain desperate.

- Trigo’s first U.S. store that debuted this week with Wakefern.

- And closed with a “there’s more to the story than there appears” take on Portillo’s decision to make all its drive-thrus cashless.

There’s all that, plus Big New Yorker pizzas, exchanging services for something other than money, and the grossest things we could realistically imagine finding in a box of Legos.

Listen to This Week’s Fast Five Podcast

Be careful out there,

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

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