🚨 GrocerTalk 011 is live 🚨 with news on Walmart , Kroger , Sam's Club and more
By Omnitalk · October 29, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
🚨GrocerTalk 011 is live 🚨 with news on Walmart, Kroger, Sam's Club and more, and with guest host Sean Ransenberg, former grocer and Managing Director of H-E-B's Retail Media network and now Co-Founder and CEO of Empower Insights.
This week Ben and Sean discuss:
🔸 US grocery ecommerce penetration passing the 20% mark, and what could drive it higher
🔸 Walmart & Sam's Club offering a new joint Plus membership, and why it hasn’t happened sooner
🔸 What we learned from Kroger’s Invstor Update, and what’s missing
🔸 Walmart’s protocols for allowing agents to shop its digital properties
🔸 And Buc-ee's, Ltd. on the expansion trail
And to mark that story, here’s a photo of Ben with Buc-ee the Beaver. Happy Halloween 🎃.
All this and more in GrocerTalk 011, which is now live on your podcast platform of choice:
🎧 Listen now on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gdCFXPR3
🍏 Listen now on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gbaaHWjb
🙏 Thanks to our GrocerTalk partners Instacart, Portager.ai, Vusion and Sifter Solutions.