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With the acquisition of the Caper cart, a technology-enabled shopping cart, grocery-delivery company Instacart began bridging the gap between online and in-person shopping. On today's episode, David McIntosh, the company's former chief connected stores officer, joins host Sam Ransbotham to share how physical AI is helping shoppers track their purchases, retailers manage inventory, and product manufacturers stock the right items at the right times. Guest bio: David McIntosh is Instacart's former chief connected stores officer, where he led the company's in-store offerings including Caper, an AI-powered smart-cart, enabling retailers to deliver seamless omnichannel retail experiences across online and in-store. Prior to joining Instacart in 2021, McIntosh was the CEO and cofounder of Tenor, a leading GIF and expression search engine integrated into top messengers including WhatsApp, Discord, and iMessage, which Google acquired in 2018. At Google, McIntosh grew Tenor to over one billion users and more than one billion queries per day. McIntosh was previously named Forbes 30 under 30 in consumer technology. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and studied electrical engineering and  computer sciences. Me, Myself, and AI is a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and hosted by Sam Ransbotham. It is engineered by David Lishansky and produced by Allison Ryder. We encourage you to rate and review our show. Your comments may be used in Me, Myself, and AI materials.

In this episode, sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, Vusion, and Sifter Solutions, Ben Miller is joined by Chris Walton, President and CEO of Omni Talk, live from NRF Retail's Big Show Europe in Paris, to unpack the latest grocery news and trends shaping the global grocery and CPG industry. This week, they discuss: • Kroger's stalled performance and lowered 2026 sales outlook, examining whether the challenges facing the supermarket giant are specific to Kroger, the broader supermarket format, or consumer confidence: https://www.supermarketnews.com/finance/kroger-cuts-same-store-sales-outlook-for-2026 • Instacart and Shipt launching AI-powered shopping assistants, and what the latest developments in AI-powered grocery shopping mean for the customer experience retailers should be working toward: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/instacart-shipt-launch-ai-powered-shopping-assistants/829859/ • Walgreens partnering with Looma to deploy in-store advertising screens, and whether working with a partner that provides hardware, content production, and measurement is the right approach to in-store digitization: https://chainstoreage.com/news-briefs/2026-09-08?article=walgreens-deploy-store-advertising-screens • Albertsons expanding its board and naming Meg Whitman as its first Executive Chair, examining what the appointment could signal for the company and the wider grocery industry: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/albertsons-expands-board-names-first-executive-chair-meg-whitman/829895/ Plus, Kim Schneider of Vestcom joins us for Five Insightful Minutes to explore how grocers can maximize their investment in shelf-edge technologies. A few things worth checking out from this week's episode: Don't miss our exclusive interviews from NRF Retail's Big Show Europe in Paris, featuring the retail leaders and innovators shaping the future of grocery and retail. Catch them on the Omni Talk LinkedIn page, podcast channels, and YouTube. Register for Omni Talk's Fall Conference Season “Must-See” Tech Preview: https://www.linkedin.com/events/omnitalk-sfallconferenceseason-7486477216600518656/theater/ Episode 005. Welcome to GrocerTalk. P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/ Music by hooksounds.com.

Krysta was walking home from the grocery store when she remembered the post. A business coach listing everything she no longer does herself on the way to $100K months: no grocery runs, because someone else handles the meal prep. No washing her own hair, because there's a weekly blowout. And there Krysta was, carrying her own bags. (Does this mean I shouldn't be going to the grocery store?) By the time she got home she had 97% of this episode — which turns out to be the point.That Post Is a List of Preferences, Not a Blueprint• The coach wasn't wrong, she was specific to herself. Krysta sweats too much for a blowout to last a week, so outsourcing her hair means two or three salon trips, not one.• Krysta and Mike live in the same apartment and handle this completely differently. He's Instacart and a meal prep service. She likes the walk and the cooking.You're Already Optimizing, You Just Chose Different Things• She talks into her Notes app and into ChatGPT instead of typing, because she thinks faster than she types. Four-minute voice note in, structured episode out.• A pill organizer in the bathroom cabinet so she stops asking at 1 p.m. whether she took her supplements. A coach writing workouts she could write herself.• The line: she isn't outsourcing the thinking, she's outsourcing the friction around it. ChatGPT organizes the idea and finds the holes in it. It doesn't have the idea.Buying Back Time Only Works If You Know What It's For• Honestly? If the groceries had shown up at her door, some of that 45 minutes becomes email and some becomes 20 minutes on Instagram she'd count as work.• Ask whether you dislike the activity or the decisions around it. She doesn't want to stop cooking, she wants to stop reinventing the wheel — air fryer shortcuts, the frozen aisle.Optimize Everything and You Delete Your Own Raw Material• Apartment to Uber to office to delivered food to laptop, repeat. Where in that day do you overhear something or watch a stranger react to something?• Same trap in health: macros, steps, the split, the Oura ring, supplement timing — until being healthy is a second job and you're not living the life you wanted it for.Fix Tip of the WeekEvery time you catch yourself thinking "I should make this more efficient," don't change anything yet. Put it in your Notes app and answer three questions:1. What am I actually trying to save? (time, decisions, energy, or money)2. What would I realistically do with that saved resource?3. Do I like any step of the thing I'm about to remove?Run it for a week. A few will be obvious things you should have automated ages ago. A few, you'll find you actually like — and you'll only need to delegate part of it, not all of it.This Week's ExercisePick the thing you keep almost outsourcing and ask what it gives you that would never show up in a time audit. The grocery store gives Krysta more than groceries. DM her @thekrystahuber with yours.No Such Thing of the WeekThere's no such thing as an optimized life if you remove all the parts of it you actually like living.Looking for more? Check out episode 42, Use AI to Organize the Idea, Not to Come Up With It on what AI should and shouldn't be doing for you.Follow Krysta:⁠@thekrystahuber⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thefitnessfyx⁠⁠⁠@thespreadmktg ⁠

What happens when the people building the world's most powerful AI systems start warning that they may not know how to control what comes next?At the same time those warnings are getting louder, the AI race is doing anything but slowing down. New autonomous agents are launching across major platforms, companies are pouring staggering amounts of money into compute, and AI is moving from answering questions to taking actions on our behalf.For business leaders, the takeaway isn't to panic—or to sit on the sidelines. It's to understand how quickly the landscape is shifting, where the real opportunities are emerging, and why governance, security, and responsible adoption need to evolve just as quickly as the technology.In this episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis connects the dots between three major developments shaping the next phase of AI.In this session, you'll discover:Why the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon ignited a massive debate about superintelligence and AI alignment.What current Anthropic researchers are saying about the possibility of controlling recursively self-improving AI.Why competition between AI labs may be making meaningful coordination and slowing down increasingly difficult.What OpenAI's own leadership is saying about alignment, monitoring, and potentially pacing future AI development.How AI is rapidly moving beyond chatbots and into autonomous agents that can perform real-world tasks.Why new agentic products from Meta, OpenAI, Alibaba, Instacart, Microsoft, and others matter for businesses.How agents could reshape everything from personal assistance and software development to shopping and digital workforces.Why security, governance, and control remain the biggest gaps as autonomous AI becomes more capable.How enormous investments in chips, data centers, and compute reveal just how much further the AI industry expects this expansion to go.What the accelerating demand for AI infrastructure means for the scale of the transformation still ahead.About Leveraging AIMulti-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/ Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/eventsIf you've enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

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To Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signupOnce Upon a Farm did $85.4 million in Q2, up 42% year over year, and reached 6.2% of US households against 5.0% a year earlier. Some of that growth traces back to a campaign that was never supposed to produce it. They were running lower-funnel media to their own site, a clean shop-now call to action, the kind of campaign you judge by tomorrow's site revenue. What moved was the retail business. Instacart got more efficient. Programs with accounts picked up momentum. Jennifer Berglund has spent the years since trying to see that effect properly instead of guessing at it, and now she is watching paid search at one retailer lift sales at another, and that's where Keen is worth its weight in premium baby food. If you run growth at a brand moving into retail: this is the episode about what happens to your job when the sale stops closing anywhere you can see it, and what you measure instead.If you own the media budget: Jennifer walks through how a one month TV test in 2021 turned into always-on upper funnel, including the matched-market holdout testing she used to defend it before she had a model.What they get into:The early signal: lower-funnel DTC media running, and the retail business taking off insteadThe finding out of Keen that surprised her most, paid search at Kroger or Target showing an effect on a different account entirelyWhy she treats ROAS as an education problem inside the company rather than a KPIThe trap in "new to brand" at a retailer, and why she takes it with a grain of saltHow she built the case for TV: 2021 test, then TV plus social plus out of home, then geo tests against comparable holdout markets, then always-onStreaming TV and YouTube, and Brad on buying top of funnel through retail media DSPs so the money still funnels to the retailerWhy every retail media network's conversion methodology is different, and what she uses those platform numbers for insteadThe moment a brand should stop putting every dollar into working media and start paying for measurementBrad on awareness as the leading indicator of household penetration, and household penetration as the leading indicator of revenueAmoeba marketing, which Brad coined live on the recording and Jennifer immediately claimed for her LinkedInWho this is for: operators whose business has outgrown the channel their reporting was built for. DTC brands going into retail, retail brands building ecommerce, anyone whose media now shows up in someone else's numbers.What to steal: the biweekly omnichannel meeting. Jennifer runs one across her media team and sales leadership. Sales says "I see this happening here," she says "we were running media during that time." That meeting found the halo before any model did.Harness the Halo is a six-part series from DTC and Keen about the spend that doesn't pay you back the same day, and the measurement that gives you room to make it. Episode 1 was the market read. This is the first brand.Timestamps:00:00 The Halo Effect of Digital Marketing07:00 Measuring Growth Across DTC and Retail15:00 How Marketing Channels Influence Each Other21:00 Streaming TV and YouTube Opportunities37:00 Why ROAS Can Be MisleadingSubscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signupAdvertise on DTC - https://dtcnews.link/advertiseWork with Pilothouse - https://dtcnews.link/pilothouseFollow us on Instagram & Twitter - @dtcnewsletterWatch this interview on YouTube - https://dtcnews.link/video

Instacart's Laura Jones returns to share practical lessons from Instacart's brand transformation, including prioritising effectiveness, brand-first marketing strategy, partnerships, Instacart's chase to win a Cannes Lion and much more. Guests: Laura Jones, Chief Marketing Officer, Instacart Ann Marie Kerwin, Americas Editor, WARC Chapters: [00:00] Introduction: Instacart's marketing transformation project [01:36] Building the Instacart brand: From performance-pnly to full-funnel marketing [03:47] Balancing functional messaging and emotional storytelling [05:24] Redefining marketing measurement: From last-touch ROAS to portfolio impact [08:02] Explaining marketing effectiveness to the C-suite [09:25] Scaling an in-house creative agency [12:31] Instacart's 2026 Super Bowl campaign [16:41] Brand-building partnerships: WNBA and Feeding America [19:27] Brand stewardship: A new view on marketing effectiveness [21:22] Embedding brand across product, CX and culture [21:33] Learning from Cannes Lions and Raising the Creative Bar For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday. Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest Book a demo: https://www.warc.com/en/subscribe

BE A HERO! Support Halfsies during our September sale and all of the other shows on the Solid Listen Network and get all of our content early and ad-free, including thousands of hours of back catalog content! https://www.patreon.com/solidlisten Molly went to the dark side of the web to see what kind of messed up things people were making while mourning the loss of Dolly Parton and being weird about the Lindsay Clancy trail. Rob's big psyched for GTA 6, but wants to make it clear that he's NON-VIOLENT and if he IS violent, it's NOT because of a video game. LINKS Average Joe's bot on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/averagedayjoebot.bsky.social Sassysaiworld: https://www.tiktok.com/@sassysaiworld?_r=1&_t=ZP-99KCz4eaPq3 Follow your hosts, Rob and Molly and check out their other podcasts: RobSchulte.com MollyMcAleer.com Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast? https://pod.link/1143932988 Vanderpump Robs https://pod.link/1826094584 Pre-order Rob's book realitytvisthedevil.com Sub to Molly's Substack bigmollymedia.com AFFILIATE LINKS Get $30 worth of credit on Eaze https://eaze.com/share/l/icfnvjo Sign up for Robinhood with my link and we'll both pick our own gift stock

The Wrestling Mayhem Show is back with Sorg, Mad Mike, Rizz, and special guest co-host Tina Keys for a packed conversation covering AEW's latest trip to Wembley Stadium, the aftermath of Wrestling Mayhem Show Presents: Sorgstock, WWE's upcoming Atlanta event, and a wrestling landscape where familiar chapters are closing while entirely new ones are beginning. The crew starts with AEW All In at Wembley, including a live perspective from inside the stadium and a breakdown of the enormous main event between Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega. From Ospreay's emotional entrance and callbacks to his career to the match itself and the celebration afterward, the group discusses why the victory felt like the beginning of a genuine new era for Ospreay. There's also plenty to unpack elsewhere on the card. Mercedes Moné and Willow Nightingale deliver another chapter in their rivalry, although the finish leaves the crew questioning exactly what happened. The surprise arrival of New Level — Kofi Kingston and Austin Creed — alongside Swerve Strickland instantly opens up a ridiculous number of possibilities for AEW's tag team and trios scene. The conversation expands into how wrestlers can completely reinvent themselves simply by finding the right company, presentation, or creative opportunity. Then it's time to explain what exactly happened at Sorgstock. The third wrestling event produced under the Wrestling Mayhem Show banner combined serious wrestling with intentionally ridiculous ideas: video-game-inspired wrestling, school supplies turned into weapons, a recorder with apparently supernatural powers over Rizz, aliens, surprise appearances, live music, live artwork, championship matches, and even an emergency Instacart run for concessions. Sorg reflects on why Sorgstock worked: the wrestling could still be excellent while performers were given permission to experiment, have fun, and create moments that normally wouldn't fit on a traditional wrestling card. Tina also gets to see how several of the matches she helped sponsor turned out. The WWE conversation turns toward Sunday Night's Main Event in Atlanta, including Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton, Oba Femi vs. Bron Breakker, the women's six-person match, Atlanta music and culture being incorporated into the event, and the discovery of some WWE merchandise that probably requires turning Safe Search off before doing additional research. The crew also looks ahead toward WWE and Triple A's upcoming shows in Mexico, the continuing expansion of crossover wrestling, and why a hometown crowd could make matches involving stars like Penta especially interesting. Finally, the show gets more reflective during What We Learned, as the impending end of Enjoy Wrestling leads to a discussion about what the Pittsburgh promotion meant to wrestlers, fans, production crews, and the LGBTQ+ community. Rather than only mourning what's ending, the conversation turns toward what might grow from the space Enjoy leaves behind. It's wrestling, questionable Google searches, Disney stories, Faygo, recorders, independent wrestling chaos, and a surprising amount of emotional reflection on another Wrestling Mayhem Show.

The Wrestling Mayhem Show is back with Sorg, Mad Mike, Rizz, and special guest co-host Tina Keys for a packed conversation covering AEW's latest trip to Wembley Stadium, the aftermath of Wrestling Mayhem Show Presents: Sorgstock, WWE's upcoming Atlanta event, and a wrestling landscape where familiar chapters are closing while entirely new ones are beginning. The crew starts with AEW All In at Wembley, including a live perspective from inside the stadium and a breakdown of the enormous main event between Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega. From Ospreay's emotional entrance and callbacks to his career to the match itself and the celebration afterward, the group discusses why the victory felt like the beginning of a genuine new era for Ospreay. There's also plenty to unpack elsewhere on the card. Mercedes Moné and Willow Nightingale deliver another chapter in their rivalry, although the finish leaves the crew questioning exactly what happened. The surprise arrival of New Level — Kofi Kingston and Austin Creed — alongside Swerve Strickland instantly opens up a ridiculous number of possibilities for AEW's tag team and trios scene. The conversation expands into how wrestlers can completely reinvent themselves simply by finding the right company, presentation, or creative opportunity. Then it's time to explain what exactly happened at Sorgstock. The third wrestling event produced under the Wrestling Mayhem Show banner combined serious wrestling with intentionally ridiculous ideas: video-game-inspired wrestling, school supplies turned into weapons, a recorder with apparently supernatural powers over Rizz, aliens, surprise appearances, live music, live artwork, championship matches, and even an emergency Instacart run for concessions. Sorg reflects on why Sorgstock worked: the wrestling could still be excellent while performers were given permission to experiment, have fun, and create moments that normally wouldn't fit on a traditional wrestling card. Tina also gets to see how several of the matches she helped sponsor turned out. The WWE conversation turns toward Sunday Night's Main Event in Atlanta, including Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton, Oba Femi vs. Bron Breakker, the women's six-person match, Atlanta music and culture being incorporated into the event, and the discovery of some WWE merchandise that probably requires turning Safe Search off before doing additional research. The crew also looks ahead toward WWE and Triple A's upcoming shows in Mexico, the continuing expansion of crossover wrestling, and why a hometown crowd could make matches involving stars like Penta especially interesting. Finally, the show gets more reflective during What We Learned, as the impending end of Enjoy Wrestling leads to a discussion about what the Pittsburgh promotion meant to wrestlers, fans, production crews, and the LGBTQ+ community. Rather than only mourning what's ending, the conversation turns toward what might grow from the space Enjoy leaves behind. It's wrestling, questionable Google searches, Disney stories, Faygo, recorders, independent wrestling chaos, and a surprising amount of emotional reflection on another Wrestling Mayhem Show.

The Wrestling Mayhem Show is back with Sorg, Mad Mike, Rizz, and special guest co-host Tina Keys for a packed conversation covering AEW's latest trip to Wembley Stadium, the aftermath of Wrestling Mayhem Show Presents: Sorgstock, WWE's upcoming Atlanta event, and a wrestling landscape where familiar chapters are closing while entirely new ones are beginning. The crew starts with AEW All In at Wembley, including a live perspective from inside the stadium and a breakdown of the enormous main event between Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega. From Ospreay's emotional entrance and callbacks to his career to the match itself and the celebration afterward, the group discusses why the victory felt like the beginning of a genuine new era for Ospreay. There's also plenty to unpack elsewhere on the card. Mercedes Moné and Willow Nightingale deliver another chapter in their rivalry, although the finish leaves the crew questioning exactly what happened. The surprise arrival of New Level — Kofi Kingston and Austin Creed — alongside Swerve Strickland instantly opens up a ridiculous number of possibilities for AEW's tag team and trios scene. The conversation expands into how wrestlers can completely reinvent themselves simply by finding the right company, presentation, or creative opportunity. Then it's time to explain what exactly happened at Sorgstock. The third wrestling event produced under the Wrestling Mayhem Show banner combined serious wrestling with intentionally ridiculous ideas: video-game-inspired wrestling, school supplies turned into weapons, a recorder with apparently supernatural powers over Rizz, aliens, surprise appearances, live music, live artwork, championship matches, and even an emergency Instacart run for concessions. Sorg reflects on why Sorgstock worked: the wrestling could still be excellent while performers were given permission to experiment, have fun, and create moments that normally wouldn't fit on a traditional wrestling card. Tina also gets to see how several of the matches she helped sponsor turned out. The WWE conversation turns toward Sunday Night's Main Event in Atlanta, including Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton, Oba Femi vs. Bron Breakker, the women's six-person match, Atlanta music and culture being incorporated into the event, and the discovery of some WWE merchandise that probably requires turning Safe Search off before doing additional research. The crew also looks ahead toward WWE and Triple A's upcoming shows in Mexico, the continuing expansion of crossover wrestling, and why a hometown crowd could make matches involving stars like Penta especially interesting. Finally, the show gets more reflective during What We Learned, as the impending end of Enjoy Wrestling leads to a discussion about what the Pittsburgh promotion meant to wrestlers, fans, production crews, and the LGBTQ+ community. Rather than only mourning what's ending, the conversation turns toward what might grow from the space Enjoy leaves behind. It's wrestling, questionable Google searches, Disney stories, Faygo, recorders, independent wrestling chaos, and a surprising amount of emotional reflection on another Wrestling Mayhem Show.

In this episode, sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, and Vusion, Ben Miller is joined by Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures at IGD and a leading grocery retail analyst and industry expert, to unpack the global grocery news stories from this week that we believe are worth paying attention to. This week, they discuss: • Whether weak US consumer confidence is finally translating into changes in grocery shopping behavior, from strong results at Dollar Tree and Dollar General to lower-income shoppers pulling back at Walmart: https://www.supermarketnews.com/finance/dollar-tree-pops-in-q2 • BJ's Wholesale Club's plans to reduce its SKU count by 20%, and whether cutting back on choice is the right move for the membership retailer: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/bjs-wholesale-club-to-cut-skus-by-20/828618/ • Target's new Beauty Studio concept, launching across 600 stores, and whether it can successfully rebuild the retailer's beauty proposition following the end of its Ulta partnership: https://progressivegrocer.com/target-launching-beauty-studio-concept-across-600-stores • Aldi's decision to close its grocery delivery business in Switzerland, and whether the move is a one-off or a broader reality check for online grocery: https://adalytica.com/news/aldi-swiss-grocery-delivery-10344f62 • Walmart bringing its Scintilla commerce intelligence platform to Sam's Club, and what it means for suppliers, retail media and Sam's future: https://www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-technology/walmart-brings-commerce-intelligence-platform-to-sam-s-club Plus, GrocerTalk Grab & Go brings even more stories to the table, including Simbe's Tally expanding with Tesco, Erewhon's latest store opening, a new Sobeys concept store, and Costco bringing custom cakes and party platters to online delivery through Instacart. GrocerTalk is a weekly podcast from the Omni Talk Podcast Network covering the trends, innovations and technologies shaping global grocery. Episode 003. Welcome to GrocerTalk. P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/ Music by hooksounds.com.

Comedian Maria Bamford riffs on money troubles... and why Instacart might be to blame; comic and crop artist Brandi Brown unpacks her childhood encounter with Prince and her favorite spots at the famed Minnesota State Fair; and The Reasonable Doubts prove that a cover band made up entirely of Minnesota state judges knows how to rock without robes.

Hour 1 Segment 1 Tony starts another edition of the show talking about Meta pushing others to join them in new safety rules. Hour 1 Segment 2 Tony talks about Costco bakery items now available on Instacart. Hour 1 Segment 3 Tony plays President Donald Trump’s presentation of awarding the congressional space medal of honor. Tony later talks about Chris Murphy saying that illegal immigration is a fake problem and that you would be safer living in a community of illegal aliens than native born Americans. Hour 1 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the first hour of the show talking about needing a larger Navy force for Iran and challenges in China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 Segment 1 Tony starts another edition of the show talking about Meta pushing others to join them in new safety rules. Hour 1 Segment 2 Tony talks about Costco bakery items now available on Instacart. Hour 1 Segment 3 Tony plays President Donald Trump’s presentation of awarding the congressional space medal of honor. Tony later talks about Chris Murphy saying that illegal immigration is a fake problem and that you would be safer living in a community of illegal aliens than native born Americans. Hour 1 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the first hour of the show talking about needing a larger Navy force for Iran and challenges in China. Hour 2 Segment 1 Tony starts the second hour of the show joined with Steve Yates of The Heritage Foundation to talk about Russia threatening the U.K. over helping Ukraine. Hour 2 Segment 2 Tony talks about CNN’s tribute to Dolly Parton. Hour 2 Segment 3 Tony is joined with Dr. Matt Will, economist from the University of Indianapolis, to talk about Kevin Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole. Hour 2 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the second hour of the show talking about a Delta pilot making an emergency landing after falling ill. Hour 3 Segment 1 Tony starts the final hour of the show joined with Andrew Langer of the Institute for Liberty and occasional fill-in host, to talk about Vice President J.D. Vance rejecting Milton Friedman’s principles for a much more Alexander Hamilton type. Hour 3 Segment 2 Tony talks about the cyclosporiasis outbreak expanding to three more states with over 11K illnesses. Hour 3 Segment 3 Tony continues his conversation with Andrew Langer talking about being in the post-Trump years and who the Republicans could nominate for the 2028 presidential election. Hour 3 Segment 4 Tony wraps up another edition of the show talking about Karoline Leavitt’s last day as the White House press secretary. Tony also talks about how the Trump administration has handled inflation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Mediate This! Podcast, Matthew Brickman sits down with Vince Mahtani, life coach, mentor, speaker, former ministry leader, and entrepreneur, for a deeply personal conversation about the experiences that shaped the man and coach he is today.Vince works with men at the intersection of spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being, helping them become better fathers, husbands, professionals, and men. But that mission grew out of his own difficult journey.Growing up in St. Louis, Vince describes a childhood where love and approval often felt tied to performance, along with complicated family dynamics that deeply affected his confidence and sense of self. After leaving ministry, he became a successful entrepreneur, building an IT company and later launching one of St. Louis' earliest app-based grocery delivery businesses, years before services like Instacart became commonplace.Success, however, didn't quiet the voice telling him he still wasn't good enough.Vince opens up about the collapse of his business in 2016, mounting financial pressure, and the Fourth of July weekend when he reached the lowest point of his life and came dangerously close to ending it. He shares what stopped him, what happened afterward, and how rebuilding his life eventually became part of a larger mission to make sure other men don't have to suffer in silence.Matthew and Vince also explore generational patterns, fatherhood, divorce, faith, achievement, self-worth, and the “inner critic”, the brutally harsh internal voice Vince eventually learned to identify, personify, and turn down rather than obey.It's a candid conversation about what happens when achievement isn't enough, where our internal voices come from, and what it takes to finally stop running from the pain and start going through it.Content note: This episode contains candid discussion of childhood abuse, suicidal thoughts, and suicide.https://www.vincemahtani.com/ SCHEDULE YOUR MEDIATION: https://ichatmediation.com/calendar/OFFICIAL BLOG: https://ichatmediation.com/podcastOFFICIAL YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/ichatmediationOFFICIAL LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ichat-mediation/ABOUT MATTHEW BRICKMAN:Matthew Brickman is a Supreme Court of Florida certified county civil family mediator who has worked in the 15th and 19th Judicial Circuit Courts since 2009 and 2006 respectively. He is also an appellate certified mediator who mediates a variety of small claims, civil, and family cases. Mr. Brickman recently graduated both the Harvard Business School Negotiation Mastery Program and the Negotiation Master Class at Harvard Law School. 

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by R&S Logistics, Duvo and Mirakl.In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:Kohl's Q2 sales inch closer to stable, but its Sephora shop-in-shop falls for a second straight quarter, raising questions about the durability of its turnaround.Target unveils Target Beauty Studio, a 600+ store beauty overhaul featuring 90 brands, two-thirds of them new to the retailer.Costco's custom cakes and party platters land on Instacart for nationwide delivery for the first time, deepening the retailers' 2017 partnership.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.

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by R&S Logistics, Duvo and Mirakl.In today's Retail Daily Minute, Omni Talk's Chris Walton discusses:Plus-size clothing options are quietly shrinking at chains like H&M, Aritzia, Mango, and Zara, and the GLP-1 boom is the likely driver, even as retailers avoid saying so.Amazon is reportedly developing "fully automated" delivery stations under an internal initiative called Project Tetromino, though the company disputes the reported details.Instacart adds Petsense by Tractor Supply as its exclusive same-day delivery partner, bringing pet supplies to the app in as fast as an hour.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.

Did you like the episode? Send me a text and let me know!! In the late 1980s, a tiny startup called Qualcomm kept losing massive trucking contracts — not to better technology, not to a cheaper product, but to something that didn't even exist. Their competitor was selling a promise, a delay, a ghost. And Qualcomm almost died for it. In this episode of Business Conversations with Pi and Piette 2.0, PI and Piette answer a listener's ultimate founder anxiety question from tuepodcast.net/askpi: "How do I compete in a saturated market against big, well-funded competitors?" The answer draws from Y Combinator archives, Forbes strategy pieces, startup veterans, and some of the most instructive David vs. Goliath business stories ever told — from Instacart vs. Amazon to Zappos vs. every retail giant in existence. The conclusion? Your biggest competitive advantage isn't your brilliance. It's their comfort. What You'll Learn: Why obsessing over your competitor's every move is the single biggest strategic error a founder can makeThe race car driver analogy that explains why looking at the wall means hitting the wallThe Justin.tv story: how copying a competitor's feature caused two companies to waste their own runway simultaneouslyWhy vaporware is a psychological weapon — and how Qualcomm survived itWhy competing on price against a well-funded Goliath is always a death sentenceThe Willie Keeler "hit them where they ain't" strategy and the blue ocean approachHow Maxim Integrated built a billion-dollar company by serving the customers giants couldn't afford to bother withHow Prego's extra chunky sauce discovered a hidden one-third of the American market that nobody was servingHow Absolut Vodka carved out a premium niche in a market where the product is legally identical to every competitorWhy Zappos and Digi-Key weaponized speed and customer service to outmaneuver corporate giantsThe 100X rule: why being 30% better isn't enough — and how Instacart solved the avocado problem Amazon couldn'tHow Cruise beat Google's decade-long self-driving head start by seeking out the hardest problems on purposeTimestamps: [00:00:00] – Introduction & The Listener Question[00:01:00] – Qualcomm vs. a Product That Didn't Exist: The Opening Hook[00:02:30] – The Classic Goliath Problem: How Every Ambitious Founder Gets Here[00:03:00] – The Race Car Driver Analogy: Why Looking at the Wall Means Hitting It[00:04:00] – Justin.tv (Later Twitch) and the Corporate Imposter Syndrome Trap[00:05:00] – The Blind Leading the Blind: When Both Competitors Are Copying Each Other's Mistakes[00:06:00] – The Theater Set Illusion: Why Your Competitor's PR Is Just Duct Tape and Panic[00:06:30] – Markets Support Multiple Winners: The Regional Bank Reality Check[00:07:00] – Stop Watching Competitors — Start Watching Alternatives[00:07:30] – Qualcomm's Full Story: Fighting Vaporware With a Real Product[00:08:30] – The Pork Chop Joke: Why Competing on Price Is the Fastest Way to Die[00:09:30] – Hawaiian Airlines vs. Southwest: How Well-Funded Giants Use Cross-Subsidization to Destroy You[00:10:30] – Willie Keeler's "Hit Them Where They Ain't" — The Blue Ocean Approach[00:11:00] – Maxim Integrated: Building a Billion-Dollar Empire on the Long Tail Nobody Else Wanted[00:12:30] – Howard Moskowitz and Prego's Extra Chunky Sauce: Finding the Hidden Cluster[00:13:30] – Absolut Vodka: Competing on Packaging When the Product Is Legally Identical[00:14:00] – The Meatball Shop & Bonobos: Do One Thing, Own It[00:14:30] – Weaponizing Speed and Customer Service: Your Two Asymmetrical Advantages[00:15:30] – Digi-Key: $2 Billion in Revenue With Zero Salespeople[00:16:30] – Zappos: How Human Customer Service Creates Loyalty Corporate Advertising Can't Buy[00:17:30] – The Psychology of the Sale: Addressing Hopes, Fears & Structural Tension[00:18:30] – What Happens When the Giant Wakes Up? The 100X Rule[00:19:30] – Instacart vs. Amazon: Why a Trillion-Dollar Company Couldn't Pick the Right Avocado[00:20:30] – Cruise vs. Google: Beating a 10-Year Head Start by Seeking the Hardest Problems[00:21:30] – Full Playbook Summary & the Final Provocative Thought[00:23:00] – Submit Your Question & Wrap-UpCompanies & Stories Referenced: Qualcomm / Omnitracs, Justin.tv (Twitch), Shelby.tv, Maxim Integrated, Prego (Howard Moskowitz), Absolut Vodka, The Meatball Shop, Bonobos, Digi-Key, Zappos, Instacart vs. Amazon, Cruise vs. Google, Southwest vs. Hawaiian Airlines Submit Your Question:

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Adam Silverblatt, Head of Off-Platform Ad Sales & Strategy at Instacart and Andrew Lipsman, Independent Anlayst at Media, Ads & Commerce.This episode was recorded in Cannes France at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.Follow Adam on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-silverblatt-3741362Follow Instacart Ads online at: https://company.instacart.com/adsFollow Andrew on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lipsman-10b2162Adam & Andrew answer these questions:In this era of Retail Media 3.0, how is the network escaping the walled garden, and what is the strategic importance of retail media transitioning into a full-funnel, omnichannel commerce engine? For emerging and legacy brands listening, how does off-platform retail media structurally change the programmatic playbook? How does targeting a "logged-in" active Instacart shopper compare to buying legacy programmatic audiences? Why are brands so frustrated with traditional attribution reporting right now, and how does verifying incremental outcomes protect a brand from double-paying for the same shoppers?  Can you walk us through the recent McCormick case study, where leveraging off-platform programmatic targeting managed to cut CPMs by 25% with only a 7% audience overlap? What is the structural lesson there?How must RMNs adjust their data infrastructures to ensure their product catalogs are preferred and trusted by an autonomous AI agent? Are we finally at an inflection point where streaming and commerce are genuinely converging, and have you seen any brand executions recently that made it feel real?What makes grocery purchase data uniquely valuable off-platform, and are there campaign results that have surprised you with how well it translated?If you could issue a single "reality check" to a CPG Chief Media Officer or Head of Sales who wants to maximize the return on their data and media investments over the next 12 to 24 months, what is the single biggest blind spot they need to fix this quarter? CPG Guys Website: http://CPGguys.comFMCG Guys Website: http://FMCGguys.comSheCOMMERCE Website: https://shecommercepodcast.com/Rhea Raj's Website: http://rhearaj.comLara Raj in Katseye: https://www.katseye.world/DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.CPGGUYS LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual's use of, reference to, or inability to use this podcast or the information we presented in this podcast.

David McIntosh, Chief Connected Stores Officer at Instacart, joins Liam to explain why the company is betting on smart shopping carts instead of rewiring stores with ceiling cameras. David walks through the $350 million acquisition of Caper, how Instacart is now live in more than 100 cities with thousands of connected carts, and why the screen on the cart, not the checkout speed, turned out to be the real driver of sales lift for retailers. David also gets into the surprisingly hard engineering problems behind a smart cart, like figuring out whether a basket is actually empty, fusing camera and scale data in real time, and building recommendations that know exactly where a shopper is standing in the store. He and Liam talk about who owns all that shopping data, what agentic AI looks like when it moves from chat into the aisle with tools like Cart Assistant, and why grocery budgets and meal planning are becoming one of the most requested AI features in the store. Key Topics Covered Why David left Tenor, the GIF search engine used by billions, to build Instacart's Connected Store business The strategic bet behind unifying online and in-store grocery shopping Why Instacart acquired Caper for $350 million instead of building smart carts in-house The reason Instacart chose carts over ceiling cameras for in-store AI How a simple running total and real-time coupons drive measurable sales lift The NVIDIA Jetson hardware and multimodal sensor fusion that let the cart "see" what's in the basket The strange edge cases in physical AI, like why "is this cart empty" is a genuinely hard question Who owns retailer and shopper data, and how it's used to improve recommendations Cart Assistant: how Instacart lets customers shop inside ChatGPT and directly on retailer websites Using agentic AI to fix store operations like out-of-stock items and supplier issues How budget-conscious meal planning became one of the most requested AI features in the store David's answer to Liam's closing question: why he does what he does Episode Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction and welcome 00:14 - David's path from Tenor to Instacart's Connected Store 02:01 - The bigger bet behind bringing online and in-store shopping together 05:29 - Entering the smart cart market and acquiring Caper 08:07 - Caper's scale today: 100+ cities and millions of daily sensor inputs 10:28 - How the smart cart actually drives sales lift 12:49 - Why Instacart bet on carts instead of ceiling cameras 17:33 - The unglamorous detail that makes or breaks adoption: charging 19:26 - What makes the experience sticky enough to keep customers coming back 24:41 - Inside the hardware: NVIDIA Jetson and multimodal sensor fusion 28:43 - The strange edge case behind a seemingly simple question 35:14 - Who owns the shopping data, and how retailers use it 37:30 - Agentic shopping: Cart Assistant and buying inside ChatGPT 42:16 - Using agentic AI to fix store operations, not just shopping 46:17 - Why David does what he does Connect with David on LinkedIn: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcintoshdavid/ Partner Links Upgrade your AI toolkit: https://www.theaireport.ai/ai-executive-pass Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe Join the community: https://community.theaireport.ai/checkout/the-ai-report-welcome-gift?coupon_code=WRTH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I sit down with Callan Faulkner, founder of The Uncommon Business and the world's leading voice on AI education for entrepreneurs, for a jaw-dropping conversation about how AI is completely reshaping the way we build, scale, and lead our businesses. Callan is scaling to $40-50 million in revenue this year with just 40 humans and over 150 AI employees, and she's here to show us that AI isn't just for tech founders or seven-figure businesses. It's for stay-at-home moms, coaches, plumbers, steel manufacturers, and every woman in between who is ready to stop drowning in manual work and start actually building the business she was meant to build. We break down the exact difference between using AI and building systems with AI, what an "AI employee" actually is (spoiler: it starts with a Claude skill), and how to identify the low-hanging fruit in your business right now. Callan walks us through real examples—from an AI employee that manages school emails and meal plans to Instacart, to the ones that write podcast pitches, run recruiting, and draft content in your voice. We tackle the biggest objections, including "will this replace my human assistant?", "isn't AI going to steal my creativity?", and "what about my data?" If you've ever felt stuck in the weeds of your business, this is your invitation to see what's actually possible—and it all starts with her AI Employee Bootcamp this fall. Liked this episode? Make sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave a review with your takeaways, this helps us create the exact content you want!  KEY POINTS:  00:00 Welcome to Woman of Influence 00:49 Meet Callan 02:21 Why AI Matters Now 03:26 Influence and AI Co-Creation 06:33 From Prompts to Systems 07:29 AI Employee Examples 10:50 Do You Need Seven Figures 11:58 Life Automation Meal Planning 13:36 Boot Camp Behind the Scenes 15:12 What Is an AI Employee 17:22 Skills Connectors Scheduling 20:41 Creativity and Privacy Concerns 21:52 Human Touch vs AI 22:22 Authenticity Over Volume 23:11 Privacy and Data Reality 23:33 Ethics Anthropic vs OpenAI 24:44 Will AI Replace Assistants 27:45 Elevating Humans to Strategy 30:09 Training AI to Your Voice 34:08 Better Editing Workflows 34:47 AI Employee Bootcamp Overview 38:40 VIP Hot Seat Coaching 41:25 Final Invite and Wrap QUOTABLES: “ Humans should be doing irreplaceable work, relationship building, using their intuition, gut checking.” - Callan Faulkner  “   I don't care if you are running an eight-figure coaching business, if you have an Etsy shop, or if you are about to go on maternity leave you need AI employees.” - Julie Solomon GUEST RESOURCES: [JOIN AUTOMATE TO ACCELERATE FALL 2026] Get behind-the-scenes access to how Callan runs her multi-million dollar company with AI employees and learn how to build your own. Save your seat here. Follow Callan on Instagram @callanfaulkner RESOURCES: [UNSCRIPTED RETREAT 2027] Where your voice, your message, and your identity become one. February 4–5, 2027 • Nashville, Tennessee APPLY HERE [THE REVENUE ACCELERATOR] Book a strategy call to explore whether The Revenue Accelerator is the right next step for your business and leadership. Apply and schedule your call today. [ORDER] my book or Audible, Get What You Want: How to Go From Unseen to Unstoppable so you can leverage the power of your own influence. Follow Julie on Instagram! MUST HAVES THIS MONTH: [EASIER BUSINESS, ONE PLATFORM] This tool makes it simple to manage your online store. With everything from inventory management to marketing automation all in one place, you'll save time and grow faster. Try it here. [QUALITY WITHOUT THE MARKUP] From linen to denim, Quince delivers premium essentials you'll wear on repeat without the usual markup. Explore here: quince.com/JULIE  for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. [MARKETING THAT WORKS WHILE YOU DO] Spend less time managing your marketing and more time growing your business. Brevo's automations, CRM, and AI assistant help you connect with customers, personalize your messaging, and streamline your workflow—all from one dashboard. Learn more at https://www.brevo.com/woman.

This week, your fearless hosts ask the question "what the f*ck is Taylor Strecker's problem" (Rob finally finished House of Stassi), then dive into the world of Internet trolls and their various forms. Finally, they discuss what goes wrong when a successful movie franchise gets adapted for TV, like 2003's My Big Fat Greek Life. Follow your hosts, Rob and Molly and check out their other podcasts: RobSchulte.com MollyMcAleer.com Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast? https://pod.link/1143932988 Vanderpump Robs https://pod.link/1826094584 Pre-order your copy of "Reality TV is the Devil (and Don't You Forget It)" https://www.sourcebooks.com/reality-tv-is-the-devil-and-dont-you-forget-it-kate-shapiro-rob-schulte.html AFFILIATE LINKS Get $30 worth of credit on Eaze https://eaze.com/share/l/icfnvjo Sign up for Robinhood with my link and we'll both pick our own gift stock

Welcome to GrocerTalk! In this launch episode, sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, and Vusion, Ben Miller is joined by Omni Talk President & CEO Chris Walton to unpack the news stories from global grocery this week that we believe are worth paying attention to. This week, they discuss: • Couche-Tard's US$8.7bn bid for Żabka, and what it signals about the future of convenience retail: https://www.reuters.com/business/alimentation-couche-tard-buy-polish-retailer-zabka-87-billion-2026-07-31/ • Kroger combining grocery and prescription deliveries, with Instacart, and what's next for Kroger's ecommerce strategy: https://progressivegrocer.com/kroger-bundles-grocery-and-prescription-delivery • Schnucks' new AI shopping assistant, and whether conversational commerce is becoming table stakes: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/schnucks-new-digital-tools-shoppers-artificial-intelligence/827758/ • Just Eat's AI Voice Assistant, and what grocers can learn from how foodservice companies are adopting AI voice tools: https://newsroom.justeattakeaway.com/en-WW/269108-just-eat-takeaway-com-launches-ai-voice-assistant-across-europe-to-make-discovering-your-next-order-as-easy-as-having-a-conversation/ • Amazon's agreement with AutoStore, and what it tells us about grocery fulfillment automation: https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2026/8/13/autostore-announces-deal-with-amazon-to-supply-automation-technology-products-and-solutions Plus, GrocerTalk Grab & Go brings more stories to the table, including Walmart's move into store-based micro-fulfillment, C&S's Winn-Dixie ambitions, Ahold Delhaize's savings kiosks, and Waitrose's new AI assistant for store associates. GrocerTalk is a new weekly podcast from the Omni Talk Podcast Network covering the trends, innovations and technologies shaping global grocery. Episode 001. Welcome to GrocerTalk. P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/ Music by hooksounds.com.

(00:00 - 3:11) It's Tuesday! If you've ever woken up at 3 a.m. and stared into the ceiling, wondering what's wrong with you, the answer might be nothing. It wasn't until the 1700's when we changed to the 8hr of sleep. (3:11 - 6:34) Today's Supah Smaht player is Andrea from Peabody! Find out if they were Supah Smaht! (6:34 - 14:04) It's the food mashup nobody asked for...but now that it's here, we might as well try it. KFC and Oreo have collaborated to create a fried chicken cookie. It has the usual chocolate wafers, but the cream inside is "11 herbs and spices"-flavored. Sadly, this is only available in China right now. (14:04 - 20:15) Instacart released data on the most popular sodas on their service. A surprise: Dr. Pepper is #1 in 17 states. Classic Coca-Cola is only #1 in three. We also talk about what soda's we'd like to bring back! (20:15 - 27:29) Hiking the White Mountain unprepared could cost you your life. Or, at the very least, a good chunk of change. Plus, Fenway Park was just named the 3rd best Ballpark in America. But someone thinks they need to get rid of Fenway! All this and more on the ROR Morning Show with LBF & Adam 12 Podcast. Find more great podcasts at bPodStudios.com…The Place To Be For Podcast Discovery! Follow us on our socialsInstagram - @rormorningshowFacebook - The ROR Morning ShowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Another weekend in the books as we speed through Summer and get closer to Fall. Very busy weekend for me with birthday dinners, parades, housework, Oktoberfest beers, and spending time with good friends. Snuck in a Spooky Spin win or two, as well! I am definitely going to spend a few hours working on the lawn today and maybe even putting up a few Halloween decorations. In the news this morning, actress Hayden Panettiere has died at age 36, a couple of planes with the same callsign ended up on the same frequency and were heading on a collision course, multiple fights at the end of the Wisconsin State Fair end with several people getting arrested, a recall on a tomato bisque sold at Walmarts nationwide, a change for Lime riders in the Twin Cities after multiple street-takeovers the last few weekends, and teen pleads guilty to harassing a sea lion after the video went viral. In sports, the Brewers took 3 out of 4 from the Dodgers this weekend, an update on Brice Turang's condition, Abner Uribe ends up on the 15 day IL, Joey Logano won on Saturday at Richmond, Von Miller signs with the Cowboys, Jamal Adams is out for the season with an knee injury, and a look at week 2 of the NFL preseason. We talked about all the news from this past weekend's Disney D23 event and we also let you know what's on TV & streaming today/tonight. A family on a beach in NJ recently found a MEGALODON tooth!!! And a kitten that was recently involved in a bank robbery now has a new fur-ever home! Talked about the most popular sodas in America, based on Instacart data, and according to a new survey, 18% of Americans prefer to get cooking advice from a food "influencer" rather than from their own mother. Elsewhere in sports, Tommy John died over the weekend, and a bunch of people have been trolling Jayden Daniels and his attempt to "own" the number 5. And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a woman who is spray-painting her dead bushes so she doesn't get fined by her HOA, a school workbook created by A.I. has tons of errors, a former bowling coach in Iowa is charged with multiple felonies after an online sting, a #FloridaMan who attacked his neighbor with dog poop, and a woman who killed a guy while some rough foreplay.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 185 of the Award Travel 101 podcast features Angie Sparks and guest Xan Tanner, founder of Gondola AI. The episode opens with a helpful reminder about using unused Instacart credits to support food banks through Community Carts, followed by several travel-industry updates. Citi is refreshing the American Airlines Executive Card with new perks, including American Airlines Vacations, in-flight and Admirals Club credits, Omni and Avis status, and enhanced Lyft and loyalty benefits, although the annual fee is increasing to $695. Angie also highlights current transfer bonuses, including 30% from Amex Membership Rewards to Avios programs and 40% from Citi ThankYou Points to Turkish, as well as Frontier's limited-time $199 GoWild! Pass. Angie and Xan also share recent credit-card wins and upcoming travel plans, including trips to Chicago, Milwaukee, Anguilla, Sicily, and Istanbul.The main topic is Gondola AI, which Xan developed after years of traveling for work and wondering whether AI could manage travel more efficiently—earning more points, saving money, and understanding an individual traveler's preferences. Gondola has evolved significantly with advances in AI and is now available on the web, through its app, and within ChatGPT, where results can be personalized based on a user's points and travel profile. Unlike many award-search and “reservation gardening” tools, Gondola is free and can book directly for users, allowing them to retain points, status benefits, and other perks while also earning Gondola Cash. The platform monitors hotel, flight, and car reservations for price drops and can reprice bookings when possible, while generating revenue through hotel and rental commissions that it shares with users.For casual travelers, Xan recommends taking advantage of Gondola's status challenge, which can increase Triplestacking rewards from 3% to 5% after booking three nights during the first week. The episode closes with a reminder to use your points rather than letting them sit, especially as loyalty programs continue to devalue their currencies—as demonstrated by Marriott's recent 6% devaluation. The broader message is that travelers should take advantage of their points and available benefits now while using tools like Gondola AI to automate the work of finding savings and maximizing rewards.Episode Links:Unused Instacart creditsCiti AA Executive refreshAmex to Avios transfer bonusFrontier Go Wild passWhere to Find UsThe Award Travel 101 Facebook Community.To book time with our team, check out Award Travel 1-on-1.You can also email us at 101@award.travelBuy your Award Travel 101 Merch hereReserve tickets to our Late Summer 2026 Meetup in Milwaukee now. award.travel/mke2026Our partner CardPointers helps us get the most from our cards. Signup today at https://cardpointers.com/at101 for a 30% discount on annual and lifetime subscriptions! Lastly, we appreciate your support of the AT101 Podcast/Community when you signup for your next card!Technical note: Some user experience difficulty streaming the podcast while connected to a VPN. If you have difficulty, disconnect from your VPN.  

Americans Favorite Couple Top 5 group finalist Jasper & Ieshia What does America's favorite couple actually look like when the cameras aren't around?For Ieshia Robinson and Jasper Thibodeaux, it might look like two people inside an 18-wheeler somewhere between a pickup and delivery. It might look like an $80 Instacart day, clearing ditches, hauling junk, buying and reselling merchandise, learning unfamiliar industries, creating businesses from scratch—or finding somewhere unexpected to have a date night hundreds of miles from home.Since meeting through Facebook Dating in 2024, Ieshia and Jasper have turned an unexpected connection into a partnership spanning love, entrepreneurship, trucking, music, comedy, travel, creativity and family.Now, after reaching the Top 5 of America's Favorite Couple, they return to Vigilantes Radio Live at a pivotal moment: only one couple from their group can advance to the finals.But Coach Dini isn't simply asking why people should vote for them.This conversation goes deeper.Ieshia and Jasper revisit the days when $80 felt significant, the transition from side hustles to operating JT Master Logistics, living together almost 24/7 inside their 2019 Mack Anthem, Ieshia's secret binder containing nearly 20 of Jasper's future business ideas, keeping romance alive while working together, the criticism surrounding the speed and intensity of their relationship, and the devastating loss of their beloved Shar-Pei, Kloe.It's a conversation about two imperfect people who didn't meet after the dream had already been built.They met—and started building it together.Now America gets to decide how far that story goes.https://youtube.com/@loljasperhttps://youtube.com/@msymajorhttps://instagram.com/msymajorhttps://tiktok.com/msymajorhttps://americasfavcouple.org/2026/ieshia-jasperBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vigilantes-radio-live--2166168/support.Vigilantes Radio Live! by The Only One Media Group ℗©2025Episode Credits:Produced, edited, mixed, and written by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.Artwork designed by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.Show Introduction by KateSegment jingles composed & produced by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.Additional music licensed through 7th Sign RecordingsLinks:onlyonemediagroup.comhttps://www.instagram.com/vigilantesradio/https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966-vigilantes-radio-live-29999229/https://www.instagram.com/whodiniblakin3d/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26009230/To support our show, please leave reviews, ratings, or you can help fuel the passion over at buymeacoffee.com/vigilantesradioEmail us at onlyonemgt@gmail.com or vradio@onlyonemediagroup.com

We love our local markets, but what is it like operating them? This episode unpacks how a small operator competes against Amazon, Walmart, and Costco without competing on price. We talk about why Ken's walked away from Instacart, tariff pressure on imported wine, and the deliberate decision to skip self-checkout service.Top Stories:1. Tech layoffs (Zillow, Google, Salesforce)2. Ex-Pokemon director charged for hiding cameras in bathrooms3. Starbucks closes inside 999 Third building 4. Ballard Goodwill might be replaced by 300-unit mixed use developmentAbout guest Derek Giles - Co-owner, Ken's MarketDerek and his business partners took over ownership in 2019. Read more about the history of Ken's here at www.kensmarkets.comAbout host Rachel Horgan:Rachel is an independent event producer, emcee and entrepreneur. She worked for the Business Journal as their Director of Events interviewing business leaders on stage before launching the weekly seattle podcast. She earned her communication degree from the University of San Diego.Contact:Email: info@theweeklyseattle.comInstagram: @theweeklyseattleWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theweeklyseattle.com

AI can help you move faster—but speed alone does not guarantee better results.In this episode, Holly sits down with Cris Valerio, founder of Main Street Operator, to explore how small business owners can use AI more thoughtfully, strategically, and confidently.After building her career as a financial journalist and working in product roles at companies like Uber and Instacart, Cris left corporate life to create a business that brings enterprise-level AI and operational strategy to Main Street businesses.Together, Holly and Cris unpack the difference between experimenting with AI and actually deploying it inside your business. They also discuss why adding AI to one random task can make an entire workflow more complicated, how “lazy AI” can damage customer trust, and why the best AI systems should create more opportunities for meaningful human connection.00:00:00 — Meet Cris Valerio and learn how she brings big-tech AI strategy to small businesses00:01:30 — What it means to build a life-first business without shrinking your ambition00:03:00 — Leaving corporate life while supporting a family and raising two young children00:04:30 — Cris's journey from financial journalism to Silicon Valley product leadership00:06:00 — Why Cris wanted to build technology for operators instead of only customers00:07:30 — How AI is narrowing the technology and cost gap for small businesses00:09:00 — The difference between playing with AI and deploying it inside your company00:10:30 — Why curiosity and experimentation make learning technology easier00:12:00 — What shadow AI is and why your business needs clear AI policies00:13:30 — How poorly implemented AI can damage the customer experience00:15:00 — Why “lazy AI” can cost you clients, partnerships, and trust00:16:30 — The problem with bolting AI onto one isolated part of a workflow00:18:00 — How thoughtful automation can create more human conversations00:19:30 — Build a transferable AI “business brain” with a simple folder system00:21:00 — A practical AI workflow for networking and follow-up emails00:22:30 — Why AI is simultaneously overhyped and underestimated00:24:00 — Why speed is not the most important measure of AI ROI00:25:30 — Using AI tools that take action instead of only generating ideas00:27:00 — The least glamorous part of entrepreneurship: finding your sales loop00:28:30 — Why Cris chose a smaller, more diverse community of ambitious women00:30:00 — What Cris wishes she had known before starting her business00:31:30 — How to identify where AI can help—and what not to spend money onCONNECT WITH CRIS:Website: mainstreet-operator.comInstagram:  @mainstreetoperator Edge Audit: Mainstreet-operatorThe AI Edge Audit — Free Download | Main Street Operator — Main Street OperatorPrivate Podcast: Mainstreet-operatorPrivate Podcast — Main Street Operator

In "The Piggly Wiggly Way: A Memphis Story, "Gravy reporter Mackenzie Martin visits the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis to understand how Piggly Wiggly changed grocery shopping forever. Meal kits. Instacart. Door Dash. At the turn of the 20th century, we didn't have all of these options. You mostly showed up at a counter and told a clerk what you wanted, and they'd gather all the necessary items and package them up for you. And there wasn't much in the way of competing brands, either. Then everything started to change in a big way 110 years ago this year, when the most influential self-service grocery store opened in Memphis, Tennessee. Founder Clarence Saunders called it “The Piggly Wiggly Self-Serving System,” and he had several patents for everything: the layout, the price tag system, and even the way he incorporated refrigeration. “You could go in and do your own shopping, and all you needed was one stocker and one clerk,” says Steve Masler, the former curator of exhibits at the Pink Palace Museum. It's unknown why Saunders named the chain what he did, but the mystery intrigued people. In September 1916, he ran one of the first of many bizarre newspaper ads to announce its opening: “The Piggly Wiggly will establish a new fashion,” it read. “Don't come, though, unless you mean business and want to buy something.” The idea of choosing your own items at a grocery store seems commonplace now, but it was revolutionary at the time. Suddenly, after years of going to a general store and handing a list to a friendly clerk, customers were expected to wander the aisles on their own and carry items in a wooden shopping basket. Historian Lisa C. Tolbert, author of Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store, says one of the most radical things about the design of Piggly Wiggly is that the traffic only went one direction. That forced customers to walk by and inspect every product in the store, which increased spontaneous purchases and overall sales. “It's like a vending machine you're walking through,” she says. In 1922, less than a decade after the opening of the first store, there were 1,200 Piggly Wiggly stores in the United States. Then more grocery store chains followed Piggly Wiggly's lead and adopted self service models of their own, and Piggly Wiggly transitioned to the more traditional supermarket model we're all familiar with.  Today, there are just under 500 Piggly Wigglys in the U.S. They are in 17 states, partially in the Midwest, but overwhelmingly in the South. It's an outlier in the grocery store industry in the sense that it's managed by individual franchisees across the country and perceived as more local than other nationally known grocery store chains. It's the kind of place where baggers often carry groceries to customers' cars, and you can get a soda for 50 cents. “It's the Piggly Wiggly Way,” said one employee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most CHROs have a fraud problem they didn't sign up for. Deepfakes in video interviews. Synthetic IDs at the application stage. AI-generated credentials that pass every automated screen. Only 31% of CHROs say they're confident in their ability to prevent hiring fraud, and the technology making it easier gets more sophisticated every quarter. Nik Daruwala, Vice President of Sales at Checkr, has spent 21 years in B2B technology sales, including thousands of direct conversations with HR leaders trying to protect their hiring funnels without losing speed. Checkr powers background verification for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart, and was the first API in the background check industry. In this episode, he covers: Why hiring fraud appears at every stage of the funnel, from the initial application through post-hire monitoring, and what a continuous identity verification strategy actually looks like in practice How CHROs should be thinking about partnering with their CISO to address a risk that's moved from the cyber stack into the talent pipeline https://thehrmixtape.com/episodes/trust-at-speed-hiring-fraud-deepfakes-and-the-identity-risks-chros-cant-ignore-with-nik-daruwala Why the speed-versus-safety trade-off in hiring is a false choice, and what good looks like when both coexist in the same program Timestamps [00:00:39] Context: this conversation was recorded live at the Checkr booth at SHRM 2026 [00:01:01] How enterprise hiring changed over 24 years: global sourcing, the normalization of remote hiring, and why the explosion of application volume made quality screening harder [00:02:50] The CHRO anxiety most people aren't talking about: making sure candidates throughout the funnel are actually who they claim to be [00:04:13] Only 31% of CHROs have confidence in their ability to prevent hiring fraud, and why the AI tools now available to candidates are changing that threat surface fast [00:04:39] The three identity threats CHROs weren't trained for: deepfakes in interviews, synthetic IDs at the application stage, and AI-generated credentials that pass automated screens [00:06:44] Why most organizations are reactive on hiring fraud, and the parallel to the early days of cybersecurity: you don't prioritize it until you have your first incident [00:08:42] Where fraud actually shows up across the hiring funnel: application, interview, background check, and continuously post-hire [00:09:41] The speed-versus-compliance trade-off is a false choice, and why the best hiring programs don't ask their teams to make it [00:13:27] Nik on what it actually means for trust to be a competitive advantage, and why that should be the north star for every hiring program [00:16:00] The two-to-three year horizon: AI automating talent sourcing and administrative tasks, continuous monitoring as table stakes, and why the hiring decision stays human Brought to You by Paylocity Paylocity is the fastest growing unified platform for HR, Finance, and IT. Paylocity brings your people, processes, and data together in one place so HR leaders can spend less time managing systems and more time doing the work that actually moves their organizations forward. Learn more at paylocity.com Keywords: hiring fraud, background checks, identity verification, deepfakes, synthetic IDs, AI-generated credentials, CHRO priorities, talent pipeline security, hiring at scale, continuous monitoring, background screening, hiring compliance, HR technology, Checkr, credential fraud, HR risk management, fraud prevention, remote hiring risk, AI in hiring, talent operations

This episode covers one of the busiest weeks yet in the gig economy. We break down DoorDash's reported increase in background checks, what that could mean for drivers, and why some believe it's all part of a bigger metrics game. We also discuss the growing number of lawsuits, concerns over the use of Chinese AI, and the latest controversies surrounding the platform. We dive into Uber's ongoing legal battle over driver classification and the class action challenges that continue to threaten the company's business model. Waymo is facing mounting problems across the country, including a court order affecting nighttime vehicle charging operations in Santa Monica. Are autonomous vehicles ready for prime time, or are the issues starting to pile up faster than expected? Also on the show: Is the new DoorDash drone delivery program innovation—or just another PR stunt? MapleBear owns Instacart, but what about the bots? We examine the growing concerns surrounding automated order grabbing. Waymo's expanding list of operational problems nationwide. And finally... CRINGEMART—our latest look at the most ridiculous stories making headlines in the gig economy. If you drive for DoorDash, Uber, Instacart, Spark, or any other gig platform, this is an episode you won't want to miss.  

In this official Routemize launch demo, DripJobs founder Tanner Mullen reveals why home service businesses lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in leads every year — and demos the tool built to fix it: instant booking, AI-powered route optimization, and a live AI voice agent thatschedules jobs for you.Tanner breaks down the psychology of why customers fill out your lead form and never book,why buyer intent has a shelf life, and how drive time quietly kills your calendar. Then he builds a Routemize account live — setting up territories, qualification rules, and booking forms — andshows all four ways customers can book: web form, chatbot, admin, and a real-time AI voice agent that books a route-optimized appointment on air. If you run a painting business, contracting company, or any home service business that drives to the customer, this is a masterclass in converting more leads without spending a dollar more on marketing.

A Texas woman survived a terrifying highway accident when a three-foot piece of rebar flew through her windshield and struck her glasses without leaving a scratch. She was driving through Flint, Texas, while delivering Instacart orders when a utility truck passed in the opposite direction and a piece of rebar came loose, flying directly toward her car. She had no time to react or move out of the way. The rebar sliced vertically through the windshield, hit her glasses, and landed in her lap, leaving her with only minor scratches. EMTs who responded to the scene told her she should not have survived the impact. She credits her survival entirely to God, saying she has no explanation for how she walked away unharmed. Ponder God can protect us in moments when there is no time to react and no way to help ourselves. Scripture “For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.” Psalm 91:11 AND A simple wrong number turned into a lifelong friendship between two strangers decades apart in age. Lauren Stevens, 24, began receiving text messages on her work phone meant for someone else, all addressed to "Vern Dog." Curious, she searched online and discovered the messages were meant for Verner, a 72-year-old San Francisco photographer who had spent decades traveling the world behind a camera. What started as a mix-up grew into a genuine connection as emails turned into phone calls, phone calls turned into video chats, and eventually the two were spending time together in person, singing karaoke and making TikToks together. As Verner struggled financially in an increasingly digital world, Lauren stepped in to help by sharing his photography online and starting a GoFundMe that raised more than $40,000 in his support. What began as a wrong number became a rare and meaningful friendship that changed both of their lives. Ponder True friendship does not check birth certificates, and it can arrive through the most unexpected circumstances, including a simple wrong number. Scripture "A friend loves at all times." Proverbs 17:17 To see videos and photos referenced in this episode, visit GodUpdates! chttps://www.godtube.com/blog/woman-survives-bar-through-windshield.html https://www.godtube.com/blog/friendship-between-strangers.html Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

YC's Nemil Dalal joins to explain why he's never been more bullish as BitMEX winds down after 11 years, whether every failed crypto idea (TCRs, DAOs, creator coins) eventually works, why crypto is really about money, Base's consumer mea culpa, on-chain reputation and credit, and who pays in the x402 AI-agent era. Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week they're joined by Nemil Dalal, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and ex-Coinbase, where he led USDC and the Coinbase Developer Platform. He's here to explain why, with exchanges winding down left and right, he's somehow never been more bullish. The crew digs into the great contrast of the moment: BitMEX shutting down after 11 years (plus BitMart, Movement Labs, Balancer Labs) while the plumbing quietly prints, and whether Imran's viral 'everything that failed will eventually work' thesis is genius or toxic positivity. From there it's the question of whether crypto is really only about money (Jesse's Base mea culpa included), a war-memories tour through TCRs, on-chain reputation and why pure on-chain credit keeps faceplanting, and finally who actually pays in the x402 AI-agent era, and whether decentralization even survives contact with Google-shaped gravity. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

Support Halfsies on Patreon and get new episodes early and ad-free, plus Patreon exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/solidlisten To prepare Molly for his birthday party, Rob shares the basics that one might need to know before seeing Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Molly's half is dedicated to Gretchen Voss' new Boston Magazine piece about the media campaign that got Karen Read acquitted and the fallout since it was released.  LINKS Gretchen Voss' Boston Magazine piece, "Inside the campaign that acquitted Karen Read" https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2026/07/22/karen-read-texts-turtleboy-harassment-campaign/ Follow your hosts, Rob and Molly and check out their other podcasts: RobSchulte.com MollyMcAleer.com Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast? https://pod.link/1143932988 Vanderpump Robs https://pod.link/1826094584 AFFILIATE LINKS Get $30 worth of credit on Eaze https://eaze.com/share/l/icfnvjo Sign up for Robinhood with my link and we'll both pick our own gift stock

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Chris Faga and Josie Marcellino join Zac Amico and discuss the crazy woman snorer and whether she's better or worse than Zac, the illegal drug peddlers that have an open air drug market in NYC, the return of quaaludes, the most comforting ice cream flavor, dealing with Instacart drivers. Indian vs - train surfing, electricity, firecrackers, reality check; airport freak outs, Josie's evidence of code sw itching and so much more!Air Date: 07/20/26Support our sponsors!BodyBrainCoffee.com - Use promo code: ZOO15 to get 15% off!YoKratom.com - Check out Yo Kratom (the home of the $60 kilo) for all your kratom needs!Zac Amico's Morning Zoo plug music can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgQJEcVToY&list=PLzjkiYUjXuevVG0fTOX4GCTzbU0ooHQ-O&ab_channel=BulbyTo advertise your product or service on GaS Digital podcasts please go to TheADSide.com and click on "Advertisers" for more information!Submit your artwork via postal mail to:GaS Digital Networkc/o Zac's Morning Zoo151 1st Ave, #311New York, NY 10003You can sign up at GaSDigital.com with promo code: ZOO for a discount of $1.50 on your subscription and access to every Zac Amico's Morning Zoo show ever recorded! On top of that you'll also have the same access to ALL the shows that GaS Digital Network has to offer!Follow the whole show on social media!Josie MarcellinoInstagram: https://instagram.com/JosieMarcellinoYouTube: youtube.com/josiemarcellinoChris FagaTwitter: https://twitter.com/chrisfrombklynInstagram: https://instagram.com/chrisfrombklynZac AmicoTwitter: https://twitter.com/ZASpookShowInstagram: https://instagram.com/zacisnotfunnyDates: https://punchup.live/ZacAmicoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to another edition of Retail Roundup—your weekly brief helping retail leaders decode the biggest shifts in retail, AI, and commerce. In this week's episode, Jeremy sits down with Martin Bailie (MWB Advisory) and Kimberly Morgan (The Fashion Tech Exec) to break down how three major retail moves signal a definitive shift away from safe, superficial trends toward bold execution. INSIDE THE EPISODE: - Marketplaces As Infrastructure: GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen put $500M of his own capital toward acquiring eBay (a company 5x GameStop's size). Regardless of the outcome, it shows massive conviction in combining physical store networks with marketplace scale to power modern commerce. - Practical AI Execution: Instacart acquired computer-vision startup Arpalus to track shelf inventory in real time. Shoppers will experience fewer substitutions and out-of-stock items. (For more on Instacart's infrastructure moves, check out our interview with the Chief Commercial Officer, Ryan Hamburger, here) - Profits Over Growth: Reformation's $1B IPO filing will test public market appetite for direct-to-consumer brands. The standards have changed: investors now prioritize healthy margins, sane customer acquisition costs, and durable unit economics over raw expansion. Different headlines, same story. Safe, incremental moves aren't cutting it anymore. Moving ahead right now takes clear strategy, strong execution, and real financial discipline.

Sometimes the biggest opportunities to save money aren't found in investment portfolios—they're hiding in your weekly grocery bill. In this fun, off-the-cuff episode, Travis Chappell is joined by producer Eric and podcast strategist Brandon Birkmeyer for a wide-ranging conversation about grocery shopping, hidden delivery markups, household quirks, childhood nostalgia, and the surprisingly expensive world of organic maple syrup. Along the way, they share practical money-saving tips, parenting observations, and plenty of laughs. On this episode we talk about: How grocery delivery apps quietly increase the cost of everyday essentials The pros and cons of shopping in-store versus using Instacart and Amazon Fresh Funny household habits, dad life, and the debates every family seems to have Why organic products and premium groceries can dramatically impact your budget Childhood memories, Costco hot dogs, and nostalgic trips to Best Buy Top 3 Takeaways Grocery delivery services can significantly increase your total bill through item markups—not just delivery fees. Comparing prices and shopping in person occasionally can uncover meaningful savings on recurring household purchases. Personal finance isn't always about big investment decisions—small, everyday spending habits add up over time. Notable Quotes "Everything was like 25 cents to a dollar more in the app." "That's how they get ya." "Money only solves your money problems, but it's easier to solve the rest of your problems when you've got some money in the bank." Connect with Brandon Birkmeyer: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bbirkmeyer/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonbirkmeyer/ Other: https://www.brandonbirkmeyer.com/ A Word from Our Sponsors: - Visit DrinkAG1.com/TMM to get a free AG1 Travel Case with 7 free AG1Travel Packs in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order while supplies last.  - Go to Leesa.com for 25% OFF select mattresses (through July 26, 2026) PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code TMM, exclusive for my listeners  - To learn more about Mode Mobile and its investor community, go tohttps://invest.modemobile.com/travismakesmoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get new episodes early and ad-free by becoming a Patron https://www.patreon.com/cw/solidlisten A woman reads the emails her deceased ex-husband sent to the men he was trying to meet up with for casual sex, Peter from Vanderpump Rules' new venture with his girlfriend, Lika O. LINKS Brandi Hammond aka blue.panties.and.bourbon https://www.tiktok.com/@blue.panties.and.bourbon Peter and Lika O. announce their new series "Love or Lie" gender-reveal style https://www.instagram.com/p/DZVUr0_A6dA/ Follow your hosts, Rob and Molly and check out their other podcasts: RobSchulte.com MollyMcAleer.com Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast? https://pod.link/1143932988 Vanderpump Robs https://pod.link/1826094584 AFFILIATE LINKS Get $30 worth of credit on Eaze https://eaze.com/share/l/icfnvjo Sign up for Robinhood with my link and we'll both pick our own gift stock

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Ali Miller, GM of Advertising and Tim Castelli, VP Global Ad Sales at Instacart.This episode was recorded in France at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.Follow Ali on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/about-ali-miller/Follow Tim on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcastelli/Follow Instacart Ads online at: https://company.instacart.com/adsAli & Tim answer these questions:So Ali, let's kick it off with you on a massive macro trend. We just read Nik Modi's latest RBC Capital report, Modi's Musings Volume 4, and theme number one is that Cultural Relevance > Brand Equity—meaning scale alone doesn't protect you anymore; you have to turn online platforms into an active "economic substrate" for identity and transaction flow. How is Instacart evolving its ad tech stack to let legacy CPG giants quickly move at the speed of a viral TikTok trend or cultural moment, turning immediate social media inspiration into a converted grocery basket? That speed to conversion is everything. Tim, let's talk about some news you announced at Cannes this week. Let's start with your AI Shopping assistant. What makes Instacart's AI assistant different?As consumers look to collapse choice complexity because of low mental energy and rising anxiety, the visible shelf is shrinking from 50+ items down to 1 or 2 AI-curated recommendations. How does this radically compressed digital real estate change your ad business strategy and Joint Business Plans with brands? You mentioned you're intentionally not running ads in AI experiences yet. Walk us through how you're thinking about that. Jumping back to the news…Immersive Feed feels like a direct response to how consumers are already discovering food on social media. How do you make sure that experience feels additive and not just like another ad unit? Does this foreshadow more to come with media publishers and creators? And for Ads Studio – is that essentially opening up Instacart's own marketing engine to brand partners? What made you confident enough in that internal capability to turn it into a commercial offering?Tim, let's pivot to New Revenue Streams and Business Models. CPG brands are desperately trying to evolve from old-school, unit-driven transactional models toward ecosystem-based monetization. With Instacart Caper Carts rolling out smart screens right into the physical brick-and-mortar aisles, you guys have built a literal physical-digital loop. How should brands rethink co-created, real-time physical store experiences using your connected hardware?Connected hardware in the physical aisle is the ultimate frontier. Ali, we can't talk about Cannes Lions without talking about Closed-Loop Measurement. Marketers are completely burnt out on self-attributed platform metrics. Instacart's entire value proposition is anchored on receipt-level, purchase-verified deterministic truth. For the brand marketers listening who are caught in the "Validation Trap," what does mathematically clean, independent attribution look like over the next three years, and how does Instacart enforce it?If it doesn't move actual volume off the shelf, it's just noise. Tim, looking at your front-row seat to enterprise sales, what separates the North Star CPG brands—the progressive companies that are aggressively growing their volume share on Instacart right now—from the legacy laggards who are still trying to run 20-year-old, static, distribution-only playbooks? What core corporate competency or operational rhythm allows them to win?Incredible, provocative insights. Now, before we pack up the mics and head out onto the Croisette for a glass of rosé, we have to save a special final question. Cannes Lions is famously the birthplace of massive, landscape-shifting partnership announcements and enterprise platform reveals. Ali, Tim... what do you guys have cooking up under the hood for Instacart that you can uniquely share with the CPG Guys community live today?CPG Guys Website: http://CPGguys.comFMCG Guys Website: http://FMCGguys.comSheCOMMERCE Website: https://shecommercepodcast.com/Rhea Raj's Website: http://rhearaj.comLara Raj in Katseye: https://www.katseye.world/DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. 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Andy and Randy break down LeBron James' immense influence on the NBA schedule as the league awaits his next career decision. They recap Spain's dominant victory over Argentina in the World Cup final, highlighting the performance of Rodri and the team's historic unbeaten streak. The segment also features humorous stories about Instacart delivery failures and dog food shopping mishaps. 01:02 - NBA and LeBron Decision 02:34 - Instacart Shopping Struggles 05:35 - Spain World Cup Triumph

In today's episode, we'll talk about how Wells Fargo shut down Greg's checking account, we'll ask "Did Marriott devalue again?", and we'll look at the many ways to turn hotel status into airline status.Giant Mailbag(01:12) - Rick shares a note about Bilt Cash at WalgreensCard News(04:25) - Chase Freedom Flex® dropping foreign transaction fees, but also losing cell protectionCrazy Thing(06:22) - Capital One Shopping: 95% back at Instacart (new members)Awards, Points, and More(12:05) - Rove adds QantasRead more about Rove adding Qantas as a transfer partner here(13:30) - Choice points on sale through July 20(14:21) - Greg's Wells Fargo shutdownLearn more about Greg's Wells Fargo shutdown here(24:58) - Nick's Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables Blunders(31:07) - FHR Las Vegas observances(35:10) - Marriott devaluation... or not?Read Stephen's thoughts about the supposed devaluation here(37:43) - How to apply Marriott free night certs to upgraded roomsLearn more about this hereMain Event: Turn hotel status into airline status(42:29) - First up: New Airline + Hotel partnerships(42:58) - Read more about the Hyatt / Aeroplan partnership here(53:00) - Read more about Marriott and Japan Airlines here: https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-japan-airlines-launch-deeper-partnership-earn-bonus-points-get-status-match-earn-status-points-more/(1:01:00) - Key hotel/airline match-ups (and other hotel/airline tie-ups)...(1:16:35) - Special topic: Airline hotel portalsSubscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie YoderMentioned in this episode:Frequent Miler's Best Offers Pagehttps://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-offers/Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast Network

We're in Chicago for the LADYHANG and everything that could go wrong has: 745 boxes of craft supplies hauled up by a bellman named Ryan, an Instacart driver named Gang, five separate Instacart orders including two rounds of tampons, black tape that turned out to be dental floss, and a keychain assembly line powered entirely by Keltie's eyebrow scissors. Jac's parents remain our unpaid interns of a decade, The Kimpton left us a Diet Coke tower, and a sign in the bathroom that said "Keep calm, it's just garlic" may have been a message from God. Plus: Keltie unveils her wig (her name is Gang, she has her own head, she flew here in a checked bag), Jac tries a bob and reconsiders her entire personality, we workshop Keltie's TODAY Show outfit down to the last polka dot, Becca gives us a live Citizen app crime report, and Ford calls to say goodnight and refuses to speak into the mic. We have deals for YOU!Lucy: Save 20% on your first order at lucy.co/ladygang with code LADYGANGClean Simple Eats: Shop the best tasting protein powders at CleanSimpleEats.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

*Timestamps are approximate* TIME TOPIC 0:00 Podcast intro with Dave & Chuck "The Freak"0:01 - - - AD MARKER - - -0:01 Guy flipped his car after driving drunk0:02 Hookers online using pics of much younger women0:09 Plane made emergency landing on the road0:11 Woman became obsessed with an exterminator who came to her home0:17 The news speaks with romance scammers who prey on men0:30 Guy spent years creating the World's tallest hat0:32 Takeout place going viral for their chicken sandwich with an odd feature0:34 - - - AD MARKER - - -0:34 DOUCHEBAG OF THE DAY0:34 What a douche did to win a car0:50 Woman stole car she found on Auto Trader, ran over the seller0:53 Women stole more than $1K worth of booze hidden under their skirts0:57 Hooker stole multiple items from a guy in Vegas1:00 Guy's brain was leaking out of his nose1:03 Are men or women better at Instacart shopping?1:17 - - - AD MARKER - - -1:17 An update on a guy who was missing half a head1:31 Woman flew out of parking garage when she hit gas instead of brake1:37 Woman's biceps exploded after a CrossFit challenge1:40 The Phantom Pooper keeps leaving poops behind in the road1:44 What happened when you used a penis pump2:02 - - - AD MARKER - - -2:02 ASK DAVE AND CHUCK THE FREAK2:02 EMAIL: Should he get involved in a friend's cheating scandal?2:10 EMAIL: Wife's lesbian co-worker wants her to divorce him so they can be together2:16 EMAIL: Buddy invited a douche on their annual friends' trip2:20 EMAIL: Husband doesn't like BJs, she misses giving them2:29 - - - AD MARKER - - -2:29 Plastic surgery clinic posting clearly fake before and after pics2:47 - - - AD MARKER - - -2:47 The World's oldest trucker END OF SHOWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.