Retail Daily Minute | Walmart & Wing Expand Drone Delivery, B&R Stores Deploys Shelf Robots & Grocery Outlet Goes All-In on AI Ordering

Retail Daily Minute | Walmart & Wing Expand Drone Delivery, B&R Stores Deploys Shelf Robots & Grocery Outlet Goes All-In on AI Ordering

June 11, 2026 · 7 min · Season 7 · Episode 649

About this episode

Chris Walton discusses Walmart and Wing's drone delivery expansion, B&R Stores' deployment of shelf robots, and Grocery Outlet's AI-powered ordering initiative.

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Duvo and Mirakl . In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses: Walmart and Wing add seven new metro markets to their drone delivery expansion plan, targeting operations from 270-plus stores by 2027. B&R Stores , a family-owned Midwest grocer, deploys Simbe's Tally autonomous shelf-scanning robots to capture real-time inventory data and free associates from up to 30 hours per week of manual auditing tasks. Grocery Outlet partners with Afresh to roll out AI-powered ordering across its fresh, center store, and general merchandise departments, becoming the first retailer to deploy Afresh's full-store, multi-category solution across its roughly 550 locations. The Retail Daily Minute has been rocketing up the Feedspot charts , so stay informed with Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, your source for the latest and most important retail insights. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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