Episode description

In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five retail news roundup, recorded live from Lululemon at the Mall of America, and sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Wiliot, Avalara, TGW, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discussed:

• Walmart expanding express delivery into the wee hours of the morning (Source: Chain Store Age)
• Aldi’s aggressive U.S. expansion plans (Source: Fox Business)
• Kohl’s new partnership with Babies R Us (Source: CNBC)
• Michaels bringing its online maker marketplace alive in store (Source: Chain Store Age)
• And closed with a look at Wayfair’s new marketing campaign and a discussion of what it must get right (and what it must avoid) when it opens its first large format store in Illinois (Source: Marketing Dive)

There’s all that, plus the new shoe line from Lululemon, the song in which Chris would most like to own stock, and the degree to which cameras inside of an Airbnb freak Anne out.

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