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(Guest Post) Importance of Redefining Your Customer Journey Through Omnichannel Retail | Lucep (4/3/2018)
(New) Introducing Omni Talk’s Weekly Podcasts — open to listen and subscribe (3/4/2018)
(Video) Amazon Go expands and Chicago shouts “Da Bezos” (5/18/2018)
(Video) Amazon Go Spotlight (5/11/2018)
(Video) Buy or sell Best Buy’s new branding? (5/11/2018)
(Video) Did the Supreme Court just help Amazon in the long-run? (6/22/2018)
(Video) Don’t bet the cart on Flipkart (5/11/2018)
(Video) Google wants to be a retailer when it grows up (6/22/2018)
(Video) How Millennial are You — Spotify, Apple Music, or cassette tapes? (5/11/2018)
(Video) How Millennial are You? — Home screen apps (5/18/2018)
(Video) Watch Out Amazon — There’s a New Flywheel in Town! (9/25/2017)
10 Signs from an Earnings Call that a Retailer is in Trouble (7/10/2017)
10 surprising retail predictions for 2018 | Retail Dive (12/6/2017)
10 Things I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart (12/6/2017)
10 Things I Think I Think I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart Right Now (Part 1 of 2) (11/14/2017)
10 Things I Think I Think I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart Right Now (Part 2 of 2) (11/28/2017)
10 tips for getting the most out of NRF’s Big Show | Retail Dive (1/10/2018)
10 tips to get the most out of Shoptalk 2018 | Retail Dive (3/15/2018)
1st-Ever Omni Bag Answers — What Does “Store of the Future” Mean? (9/1/2017)
2017 Omni Talk Superlative Awards (12/18/2017)
3 Reasons Why Coworking Is All Hype When It Comes To Saving Retail | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
3 Suggestions to Make Retail Trade Shows Even More Katy Perry Sharktastic (10/12/2017)
5 Resume Checks to Ensure You Don’t Hire Hank Azaria for Your R&D Effort (8/7/2017)
5 surprising takeaways from Home Delivery World 2018 | Retail Dive (4/26/2018)
A Call to Action for All Retailers: A Fireside Chat with Chris Walton & Mariya Zorotovich at Microsoft (5/23/2018)
A Demo of Amazon’s Package X-Ray Technology (1-Minute Video Post) (8/16/2017)
A Happy September Thank You Note (9/18/2017)
A Quick 2-Minute Primer on Why Amazon May Be Unstoppable. (6/29/2017)
After the Five Video — Walmart just set retail back 50 years (5/18/2018)
After the Five Video: Amazon, the drug we can’t quit (5/4/2018)
After the Five Video: Walmart, shouldn’t the curtain match the drapes? (4/23/2018)
Alibaba’s New Retail Could Be What Makes American Retail Great Again | Forbes (8/13/2018)
Amazon adds features to allow teens to shop from parents’ account (10/12/2017)
Amazon and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (6/20/2017)
Amazon and Walmart Ain’t Got Nothing on Us — Retail’s New Flywheel Revealed (9/25/2017)
Amazon Go Has Been Flawed From The Get-Go | Forbes.com (8/6/2018)
Amazon Go is more like Amazon ‘Uh oh’ | Retail Dive (2/6/2018)
Amazon Go Means Goodbye Status Quo | Forbes.com (7/9/2018)
Amazon Prime Pantry? Not in My Drawers! (Video Post) (9/5/2017)
Amazon’s Echo Look is just what Alicia Silverstone ordered (6/9/2018)
Amazon’s Echo Look may be the coolest thing I have ever seen (Fast Five) (6/8/2018)
Amazon, Alibaba And Nike All Point To The Next Innovation In Retail: Personalized Physical Spaces | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
An 8 Step Pregnancy Test to Indicate if a Retailer’s R&D is Really R&D (7/24/2017)
Breaking News — Amazon Announces 11/22 Prime Day (10/24/2017)
Channel Mastery: 16: Chris Walton: The Future of Omnichannel Retail (10/18/2017)
Considering A Flagship Store On Tmall? What Retail Execs Need To Know | Retail Executive (3/12/2018)
Dan Phan: The Art & Science of Business Modernization (11/22/2017)
Data In Omni-Channel Retailing Is About Art, Not Science | Retail Executive (1/5/2018)
Did You Know Lionel Richie is a Retail Nostradamus? (7/14/2017)
Does Moore’s Law Apply to Retail? (7/7/2017)
Ever Hear the One about the Quick Brown Fox that Jumped Over the Lazy Retailer? (8/1/2017)
Fast Five Podcast — Ikea, Resto, Lulu and, of course, a Walmart Diatribe (3/30/2018)
Fast Five Podcasts: Walmart done good (finally), plus Amazon Spark and More (4/6/2018)
Fast Five Video: Is Brandless just an infomercial? (4/20/2018)
Fast Five Video: Macy’s has a new Story to tell and . . . Lionel Richie (5/4/2018)
Fast Five: Amazon is disrupting retail faster than we expected (2/23/2018)
Fast Five: Amazon to bring Yuppie Nirvana to Chicago and San Francisco (5/17/2018)
Fast Five: Doug and Marc go to the Taj Majal (5/10/2018)
Fast Five: If Macy’s falls in the woods, does it make a noise? (3/2/2018)
Fast Five: Join the movement #FemaleFounders (5/31/2018)
Fast Five: Kohl’s and Aldi go together like doilies and crockery (3/9/2018)
Fast Five: Macy’s pens the next chapter in its Story (5/3/2018)
Fast Five: The race is on to one-up Amazon Go! (6/15/2018)
Fast Five: The truth hurts Bed Bath and Beyond (4/12/2018)
Fast Five: This week’s headlines were quite taxing (6/22/2018)
Fast Five: Walmart done . . . good . . . finally! (4/5/2018)
Five Tools to Survive the Retail Apocalypse | The Robin Report (8/1/2018)
Four Troubling Concerns About Walmart’s New JetBlack Service | Forbes.com (6/27/2018)
Good Retail Should Feel Like Vacation Sex|Forbes.com (6/25/2018)
Google Could Become A Bigger And Better Retailer Than Amazon | Forbes (8/20/2018)
How Incoming Store Technology Will Change Retail Forever | RetailSpaces (7/24/2018)
How Millennial are You — Experiences or Things? (6/15/2018)
How Millennial are you — Uber pricing? (6/8/2018)
How millennial are you — Venmo? (5/4/2018)
Inspiration from Disaster — Flight 255 and Its Lasting Impact (8/14/2017)
Is Brandless a modern day reimagination of an infomercial? (4/19/2018)
Let’s Get Real About Retail: A Conversation With Chris Walton | StyleSage (4/4/2018)
Leveraging Packaging As Part Of The E-Commerce Experience | Dieline (4/25/2018)
Location Marketing is the Flux Capacitor of Mobile Retailing | uberall (8/6/2018)
Look Mom – I just Shipt my pants in an Instacart (2/2/2018)
Matthew Shay, President and CEO of NRF, Needs a Wake-Up Call – The Robin Report (5/10/2018)
Meal-Kit Solutions Lack One Key Ingredient: Human-Centered Design | Forbes.com (7/24/2018)
My Dad, an original gangster of entrepreneurship (12/4/2017)
My favorite retail tech startup of 2018 is woman-led, and that part is important (5/24/2018)
My first time. . . at a boutique hotel. . . and what it means to retail. (11/9/2017)
November Omni Bag — Is Kohl’s between a rock and a demographic hard place? (11/6/2017)
Now 11 Signs that a Retailer is in Trouble (7/12/2017)
Omni Talk Fast Five Now on Video! (4/16/2018)
Omni Talk Podcasts: Amazon says, “No, I am your father.” (4/14/2018)
Omni Talk Spotlight Series: One Door Merchandising Cloud (5/30/2018)
Omni Talk Spotlight Series: Today’s Guest Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce (4/10/2018)
Omni Talk’s 2017 Best (as voted on by you) (12/22/2017)
Omni Talk’s New Feature – How millennial are you? (4/23/2018)
Omnichannel’s Death…Not So Fast! – The Robin Report (12/12/2017)
Our faith in Macy’s may be restored (After the Five Video) (6/15/2018)
Peter, Paul, and Mary ask: “Where have all the Santas gone?” (11/21/2017)
Product Management, Not Product – Robin Report (1/18/2018)
Retail Boards and Analysts — Consider Yourselves on Blast (9/12/2017)
Retail’s Q4 Sales Results – The Robin Report (2/8/2018)
Retail’s Mid-Year Physical Exam – The Robin Report (6/20/2018)
Protected: Retailers Anonymous — a 12-Step Recovery Program (must subscribe to get code) (1/10/2018)
Retailers are FREAKING OUT Over New Eagle Eye Cherry Cover (7/27/2017)
Retailers Need to Stop Thinking with Their Small P’s (7/5/2017)
Shark City CEO Pay and Decision-Making Biases (6/30/2017)
Shop.org 2017 Observations Part II — Why I Get All Ben Stiller Over Location Technology (10/5/2017)
Shop.org Observations Part I — More Scan-and-Go Horizons (10/3/2017)
Shop.org Observations Part III — Tech that Speaks to Me Like Jennifer Love Hewitt (10/9/2017)
Shoptalk Day 1 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Shoptalk Day 2 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Shoptalk Day 3 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Shoptalk Day 4 Podcast — Recap and Concluding Thoughts (3/22/2018)
Starbucks is Amazon’s Store of the Future (1-Minute Video Post) (8/10/2017)
Starbucks Order-Pick Up is the Future (Video Post) (8/24/2017)
The Curious Case of Location Marketing in a Mobile World | uberall (6/8/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly from IRCE 2018 | Retail Dive (6/12/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly of NRF’s Big Show 2018 | Retail Dive (1/18/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly of Shoptalk 2018 | Retail Dive (3/29/2018)
The New Mental Gymnastics of Mobile Retailing | uberall (6/14/2018)
The New Titans Of Retail: Emily Weiss And Katrina Lake | Forbes.com (7/6/2018)
The store of the future won’t be Amazon (11/30/2017)
The World is Our Storefront | uberall (7/18/2018)
Walmart and Affirm: A match Amazon will find hard to beat | Retail Dive (9/7/2017)
Walmart hits an e-commerce road bump. What’s next? | Retail Dive (2/26/2018)
Walmart jumps ahead of Amazon with Scan & Go | Retail Dive (8/11/2017)
Walmart Made An Incredibly Sharp Move This Month Hiring Valerie Casey | Forbes.com (7/6/2018)
Walmart’s Alphabot Robot Is The Beautiful First Letter Of A New Retail Language | Forbes (8/13/2018)
Walmart’s Jetblack is the new red (6/11/2018)
Walmart’s Latest Initiative To Fend Off Amazon Is A Total Gas | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
Walmart’s New Microsoft Deal, Not Amazon Prime Day, Was The Most Important Event In Retail Last Week | Forbes.com (7/24/2018)
Was Terry J. Lundgren the Mayor of Shark City? (6/27/2017)

Posts Displayed in Order of Publish Date:

Google Could Become A Bigger And Better Retailer Than Amazon | Forbes (8/20/2018)
Walmart’s Alphabot Robot Is The Beautiful First Letter Of A New Retail Language | Forbes (8/13/2018)
Alibaba’s New Retail Could Be What Makes American Retail Great Again | Forbes (8/13/2018)
Amazon Go Has Been Flawed From The Get-Go | Forbes.com (8/6/2018)
Location Marketing is the Flux Capacitor of Mobile Retailing | uberall (8/6/2018)
Five Tools to Survive the Retail Apocalypse | The Robin Report (8/1/2018)
Walmart’s New Microsoft Deal, Not Amazon Prime Day, Was The Most Important Event In Retail Last Week | Forbes.com (7/24/2018)
How Incoming Store Technology Will Change Retail Forever | RetailSpaces (7/24/2018)
Meal-Kit Solutions Lack One Key Ingredient: Human-Centered Design | Forbes.com (7/24/2018)
The World is Our Storefront | uberall (7/18/2018)
Amazon, Alibaba And Nike All Point To The Next Innovation In Retail: Personalized Physical Spaces | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
Walmart’s Latest Initiative To Fend Off Amazon Is A Total Gas | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
3 Reasons Why Coworking Is All Hype When It Comes To Saving Retail | Forbes.com (7/17/2018)
Amazon Go Means Goodbye Status Quo | Forbes.com (7/9/2018)
Walmart Made An Incredibly Sharp Move This Month Hiring Valerie Casey | Forbes.com (7/6/2018)
The New Titans Of Retail: Emily Weiss And Katrina Lake | Forbes.com (7/6/2018)
Four Troubling Concerns About Walmart’s New JetBlack Service | Forbes.com (6/27/2018)
Good Retail Should Feel Like Vacation Sex|Forbes.com (6/25/2018)
(Video) Google wants to be a retailer when it grows up (6/22/2018)
(Video) Did the Supreme Court just help Amazon in the long-run? (6/22/2018)
Fast Five: This week’s headlines were quite taxing (6/22/2018)
Retail’s Mid-Year Physical Exam – The Robin Report (6/20/2018)
How Millennial are You — Experiences or Things? (6/15/2018)
Our faith in Macy’s may be restored (After the Five Video) (6/15/2018)
Fast Five: The race is on to one-up Amazon Go! (6/15/2018)
The New Mental Gymnastics of Mobile Retailing | uberall (6/14/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly from IRCE 2018 | Retail Dive (6/12/2018)
Walmart’s Jetblack is the new red (6/11/2018)
Amazon’s Echo Look is just what Alicia Silverstone ordered (6/9/2018)
How Millennial are you — Uber pricing? (6/8/2018)
Amazon’s Echo Look may be the coolest thing I have ever seen (Fast Five) (6/8/2018)
The Curious Case of Location Marketing in a Mobile World | uberall (6/8/2018)
Fast Five: Join the movement #FemaleFounders (5/31/2018)
Omni Talk Spotlight Series: One Door Merchandising Cloud (5/30/2018)
My favorite retail tech startup of 2018 is woman-led, and that part is important (5/24/2018)
A Call to Action for All Retailers: A Fireside Chat with Chris Walton & Mariya Zorotovich at Microsoft (5/23/2018)
After the Five Video — Walmart just set retail back 50 years (5/18/2018)
(Video) How Millennial are You? — Home screen apps (5/18/2018)
(Video) Amazon Go expands and Chicago shouts “Da Bezos” (5/18/2018)
Fast Five: Amazon to bring Yuppie Nirvana to Chicago and San Francisco (5/17/2018)
(Video) Buy or sell Best Buy’s new branding? (5/11/2018)
(Video) How Millennial are You — Spotify, Apple Music, or cassette tapes? (5/11/2018)
(Video) Amazon Go Spotlight (5/11/2018)
(Video) Don’t bet the cart on Flipkart (5/11/2018)
Fast Five: Doug and Marc go to the Taj Majal (5/10/2018)
Matthew Shay, President and CEO of NRF, Needs a Wake-Up Call – The Robin Report (5/10/2018)
Fast Five Video: Macy’s has a new Story to tell and . . . Lionel Richie (5/4/2018)
After the Five Video: Amazon, the drug we can’t quit (5/4/2018)
How millennial are you — Venmo? (5/4/2018)
Fast Five: Macy’s pens the next chapter in its Story (5/3/2018)
5 surprising takeaways from Home Delivery World 2018 | Retail Dive (4/26/2018)
Leveraging Packaging As Part Of The E-Commerce Experience | Dieline (4/25/2018)
After the Five Video: Walmart, shouldn’t the curtain match the drapes? (4/23/2018)
Omni Talk’s New Feature – How millennial are you? (4/23/2018)
Fast Five Video: Is Brandless just an infomercial? (4/20/2018)
Is Brandless a modern day reimagination of an infomercial? (4/19/2018)
Omni Talk Fast Five Now on Video! (4/16/2018)
Omni Talk Podcasts: Amazon says, “No, I am your father.” (4/14/2018)
Fast Five: The truth hurts Bed Bath and Beyond (4/12/2018)
Omni Talk Spotlight Series: Today’s Guest Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce (4/10/2018)
Fast Five Podcasts: Walmart done good (finally), plus Amazon Spark and More (4/6/2018)
Fast Five: Walmart done . . . good . . . finally! (4/5/2018)
Let’s Get Real About Retail: A Conversation With Chris Walton | StyleSage (4/4/2018)
(Guest Post) Importance of Redefining Your Customer Journey Through Omnichannel Retail | Lucep (4/3/2018)
Fast Five Podcast — Ikea, Resto, Lulu and, of course, a Walmart Diatribe (3/30/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly of Shoptalk 2018 | Retail Dive (3/29/2018)
Shoptalk Day 4 Podcast — Recap and Concluding Thoughts (3/22/2018)
Shoptalk Day 3 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Shoptalk Day 2 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Shoptalk Day 1 — Podcast Recap (3/21/2018)
Omni Talk’s 3/16/18 podcasts are live! (3/16/2018)
10 tips to get the most out of Shoptalk 2018 | Retail Dive (3/15/2018)
Considering A Flagship Store On Tmall? What Retail Execs Need To Know | Retail Executive (3/12/2018)
Omni Talk’s 3/9/18 podcasts are live for your listening pleasure! (3/9/2018)
Fast Five: Kohl’s and Aldi go together like doilies and crockery (3/9/2018)
(New) Introducing Omni Talk’s Weekly Podcasts — open to listen and subscribe (3/4/2018)
Fast Five: If Macy’s falls in the woods, does it make a noise? (3/2/2018)
Walmart hits an e-commerce road bump. What’s next? | Retail Dive (2/26/2018)
Fast Five: Amazon is disrupting retail faster than we expected (2/23/2018)
Retail’s Q4 Sales Results – The Robin Report (2/8/2018)
Amazon Go is more like Amazon ‘Uh oh’ | Retail Dive (2/6/2018)
Look Mom – I just Shipt my pants in an Instacart (2/2/2018)
The good, the bad and the ugly of NRF’s Big Show 2018 | Retail Dive (1/18/2018)
Product Management, Not Product – Robin Report (1/18/2018)
10 tips for getting the most out of NRF’s Big Show | Retail Dive (1/10/2018)
Protected: Retailers Anonymous — a 12-Step Recovery Program (must subscribe to get code) (1/10/2018)
Data In Omni-Channel Retailing Is About Art, Not Science | Retail Executive (1/5/2018)
Omni Talk’s 2017 Best (as voted on by you) (12/22/2017)
2017 Omni Talk Superlative Awards (12/18/2017)
Omnichannel’s Death…Not So Fast! – The Robin Report (12/12/2017)
10 surprising retail predictions for 2018 | Retail Dive (12/6/2017)
10 Things I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart (12/6/2017)
My Dad, an original gangster of entrepreneurship (12/4/2017)
The store of the future won’t be Amazon (11/30/2017)
10 Things I Think I Think I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart Right Now (Part 2 of 2) (11/28/2017)
Dan Phan: The Art & Science of Business Modernization (11/22/2017)
Peter, Paul, and Mary ask: “Where have all the Santas gone?” (11/21/2017)
10 Things I Think I Think I Love and Don’t Love about Walmart Right Now (Part 1 of 2) (11/14/2017)
My first time. . . at a boutique hotel. . . and what it means to retail. (11/9/2017)
November Omni Bag — Is Kohl’s between a rock and a demographic hard place? (11/6/2017)
Breaking News — Amazon Announces 11/22 Prime Day (10/24/2017)
Channel Mastery: 16: Chris Walton: The Future of Omnichannel Retail (10/18/2017)
Amazon adds features to allow teens to shop from parents’ account (10/12/2017)
3 Suggestions to Make Retail Trade Shows Even More Katy Perry Sharktastic (10/12/2017)
Shop.org Observations Part III — Tech that Speaks to Me Like Jennifer Love Hewitt (10/9/2017)
Shop.org 2017 Observations Part II — Why I Get All Ben Stiller Over Location Technology (10/5/2017)
Shop.org Observations Part I — More Scan-and-Go Horizons (10/3/2017)
Amazon and Walmart Ain’t Got Nothing on Us — Retail’s New Flywheel Revealed (9/25/2017)
(Video) Watch Out Amazon — There’s a New Flywheel in Town! (9/25/2017)
A Happy September Thank You Note (9/18/2017)
Retail Boards and Analysts — Consider Yourselves on Blast (9/12/2017)
Walmart and Affirm: A match Amazon will find hard to beat | Retail Dive (9/7/2017)
Amazon Prime Pantry? Not in My Drawers! (Video Post) (9/5/2017)
1st-Ever Omni Bag Answers — What Does “Store of the Future” Mean? (9/1/2017)
Starbucks Order-Pick Up is the Future (Video Post) (8/24/2017)
Walmart and Google voice shopping on Google Express – Business Insider (8/23/2017)
Brand Story – Why Your Brand Story is Killing Conversions – The Good (8/18/2017)
A Demo of Amazon’s Package X-Ray Technology (1-Minute Video Post) (8/16/2017)
Inspiration from Disaster — Flight 255 and Its Lasting Impact (8/14/2017)
Walmart jumps ahead of Amazon with Scan & Go | Retail Dive (8/11/2017)
Starbucks is Amazon’s Store of the Future (1-Minute Video Post) (8/10/2017)
5 Resume Checks to Ensure You Don’t Hire Hank Azaria for Your R&D Effort (8/7/2017)
Ever Hear the One about the Quick Brown Fox that Jumped Over the Lazy Retailer? (8/1/2017)
Retailers are FREAKING OUT Over New Eagle Eye Cherry Cover (7/27/2017)
An 8 Step Pregnancy Test to Indicate if a Retailer’s R&D is Really R&D (7/24/2017)
Did You Know Lionel Richie is a Retail Nostradamus? (7/14/2017)
Now 11 Signs that a Retailer is in Trouble (7/12/2017)
10 Signs from an Earnings Call that a Retailer is in Trouble (7/10/2017)
Does Moore’s Law Apply to Retail? (7/7/2017)
Retailers Need to Stop Thinking with Their Small P’s (7/5/2017)
Shark City CEO Pay and Decision-Making Biases (6/30/2017)
A Quick 2-Minute Primer on Why Amazon May Be Unstoppable. (6/29/2017)
Was Terry J. Lundgren the Mayor of Shark City? (6/27/2017)
Amazon and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (6/20/2017)

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