Hello Omni Talk Fans! It has been a tough week here at the Omni Talk HQ in Minneapolis.

If Anne weren’t tired of spending too much time with me already last week in Europe, I seem to have picked up some wicked bug from our travels that makes working together side-by-side even more difficult.

Fortunately, podcasting is about the easiest job to do remotely, and we also had two great guest hosts join us this week to share the load – the A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s Dave Ritter and David Brown. 

This week the four of us had a blast discussing:

- This week’s string of earnings announcements from Home Depot, Target, and Walmart

- Amazon’s wild marketing scheme to pay customers $10 to pick up packages

- What Google using generative AI heralds for the future of search and for commerce

- Amazon’s latest innovation, Amazon Anywhere, that allows Amazon to sell goods directly through video games

- And closed with a look at a new startup, Telly, that wants to give people free 55 inch TVs with one catch – each TV comes with a separate screen on which to display always-on ads

There’s all that, plus our favorite Bat toys, spicy sauce making, and bridal registry brouhahas.

Listen to This Week’s Fast Five Podcast

Be careful out there,

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

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