Hello Omni Talk Fans! We interrupt your delicious Kraft Mac & Cheese flavored ice cream for this brief retail news break.

I wish that were fake news, but it’s not. So many people wanted the ice cream that it has not only sold out, but crashed the website! While you let that one marinate (which has made the thought of that ice cream even more disguisting) let’s talk about the impact that some of this week’s Fast Five topics will have on this wild world of retail.

Apple is launching BNPL services, Instacart is putting all their chips in the Facebook leader basket, and Sam’s Club may have just unlocked an entirely new (and sizable) demographic with the addition of shipping to their scan-and-go app.

You can catch the latest version of the Fast Five by clicking on the feature above, or at this link.

Take me to the Fast Five

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, and Takeoff Anne Mezzenga and guest host Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Sucharita Kodali discuss:

-Instacart’s powerhouse move, bringing over yet another Facebook Exec, Fidji Simo, to be the company’s CEO and what this indicates for the direction company may be headed in.

-Why Sam’s Club adding Scan & Ship is so much more than a new app feature and may open them up to an entirely new consumer.

-Apple’s new Apple Pay Later platform unlocking interest-free installment payments for all Apple Pay users and how it could take BNPL mainstream.

-7-Eleven’s rollout of mobile checkout to 3,000 stores and Sucharita’s suggestions for retailers when dealing with Big Tech in rolling out these initiatives.

-Asos opening up Nordstrom to the international market with their new co-owned brands and future partnership.

Anne and Sucharita also talk about everything else they’d rather eat before trying Kraft Mac & Cheese Ice Cream, a Sucharita-inspired line of sneakers for Porsche, and what they’d be wearing to an after-party at “Disco Kroger” had it not shut down this past week.

We hope you find something this weekend that brings you as much joy as eating late night takeout at the Kroger Disco Deli.

Be careful out there,

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

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