Omnicom wraps its Cannes e-commerce blitz with Kroger Precision Marketing deal

Kroger will feed its stock-on-shelf data sets on a daily basis to the Omni marketing orchestration platform that underpins all Omnicom agencies in a new deal announced at Cannes.

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