Omni Talk Expert Quorso CEO Julian Mills once again joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga for the latest installment of the Omni Talk Ask an Expert Series to delve into one simple answer that may hold the key to helping many overwhelmed stores — making the District Manager’s life simpler, easier, and more efficient.
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Women’s Retail Collective Video | Fanatics Chief Strategic Retail Officer Gina De Caro Sprenger
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Women’s Retail Collective Podcast, Anne Mezzenga sits down with Fanatics Chief Strategic Retail Officer Gina De Caro Sprenger.
Spotlight Video | Best Buy’s 24/7 Pickup Lockers With Luxer One President Josh Middlebrooks
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Luxer One President Josh Middlebrooks about his company’s 24/7 locker pickup implementation with Best Buy.
Fast Five | 2021 Omni Talk Retail Awards
Kristin Kohler Burrows and David Ritter stop by to help Chris and Anne hand out this year’s Omni Talk Retail Awards!
Spotlight Video | Scandit CTO & Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier
Omni Talk’s Anne Mezzenga sits down with Scandit VP of Product, CTO & Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier to discuss how retailers can implement scanning tech to simplify store operations, like picking and packing online orders, to scanning ID’s for compliant alcohol delivery.
Spotlight Series | Building A Retail Media Network With ciValue VP of Marketing Pearl Lieberman
Anne Mezzenga sits down with ciValue VP of Marketing Pearl Lieberman to talk about Retail Media Networks and why many retailers and brands already have all the data they need to get them started.
Fast Five | Kohl’s Spinoffs, DoorDash In An Instant, & Why Wayfair Is Too Smart For Its Own Good
Chris and Anne talk Jewel-Osco’s new partnership with Takeoff, Kohl’s spinning off its e-commerce business, DoorDash doing instant delivery in NYC, the inflated marketplace trend, and why Wayfair likely will never succeed in physical retailing.
Video | A Demonstration of Best Buy’s Radical New Outdoor Pickup Locker Pilot
Omni Talk’s Chris Walton gives a step-by-step demonstration of how Best Buy’s new pickup locker pilot works.
Ask An Expert Video | The Smash And Grab Theft Retailers Don’t See With Signifyd SVP Bennett
Signifyd SVP Bennett joins Anne Mezzenga to discuss the “smash & grab” trend, along with Signifyd’s latest Pulse report outlining fraud data during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021.
Ask An Expert Video | The Now, Next, and Future Of BNPL With Sezzle President Paul Paradis
Sezzle President Paul Paradis sits down to talk BNPL trends with Omni
Talk’s Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga.
Fast Five | Toys R Us Is Back And Macy’s Does Something Out Of Character
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne talk the past week’s sales results, the return of TRU, Macy’s NFTs, Boxed, and how to put a stop to smash and grab retail crime.
Video | We’re In Love With Mall Of America’s New Online Shopping & Delivery Platform
Omni Talk’s Anne Mezzenga demonstrates from start to finish how customers can now shop multiple retailers at Mall of America online, with one quick seamless checkout, and have all the products delivered in one bag right to her doorstep.
Fast Five | We’re Jaded About Target But Geeked Up For Amazon Go Starbucks
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss the many Amazon Go related announcements of the past week, get conflicted over Target’s Thanksgiving plans, examine Kroger and Google’s relationship, and throw shade at Best Buy.
Five Insightful Minutes With A&M’s Jonathan Sharp
A&M’s Jonathan Sharp gets hit with tough questions as he shares the most important insights from the A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s Fall 2021 Consumer Sentiment Survey in just five minutes!
Ask An Expert Video | Microsoft’s 5 Retail Technologies To Bet On In 2022
Microsoft’s Chris Dieringer and Ricardo Belmar sit down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss the Top 5 Retail Tech Trends Microsoft Would Bet On For 2022.
Fast Five Video | Amazon To Take Venmo, Bezos Flexes For Leo, & Nike Cozies Up With Dick’s
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Amazon taking Venmo, Sobey’s new flex store, NFTs for Singles’ Day, Nike and Dick’s, YouTube commerce, and the craziest picture of Jeff Bezos you have ever seen!
Fast Five Video | Bottoms Up To The Metaverse, Thumbs Down To Bed Bath & Kroger
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five podcast, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga break down the week’s top retail news, including Kroger and Bed Bath, Nike and the metaverse, Uber Eats, Amazon Fresh, and the latest checkout-free noise from Circle K.
Spotlight Series Video | Inventory Accuracy Got You Down? RFID Is An Easy Way to Cure What Ails You
Avery Dennison’s Kris Barton and Detego’s Umesh Cooduvalli join Chris Walton to discuss why RFID will soon be a centerpiece technology for omnichannel retailing excellence.
Cool Sh*t Alert | Amazon One Palm Demo
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga head to Amazon 4-Star at Mall of America to try out and demonstrate Amazon One, Amazon’s new pay-with-your-palm payment system.
Fast Five Video | ‘Backup’ Target There’s A New Amazon Pickup Option In Town
In this week’s podcast, the A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s David Ritter and David Brown join Chris and Anne to talk Target’s new same-day options, Amazon Local Selling, PayPal and Pinterest, Trigo and Rewe, and much, much more!
Special Report | Live Tour Of Tesco’s New Checkout-Free Store In London Powered By Trigo
Omni Talk’s Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga get a live store demonstration of Tesco’s new checkout-free store in the High Holborn neighborhood of London directly from the man responsible for the technology that powers the experience, Trigo Co-Founder and CEO Michael Gabay.
Fast Five Video | Tesco Takes On Amazon Go While Instacart Jumps The Shark With Caper
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Tesco and Trigo’s new checkout-free store in London, the foolishness of Instacart’s Caper acquisition, Best Buy piloting Scan-&-Go, GoPuff in NYC, and the always unimaginative Walmart+.
Ask An Expert | Revisiting The Case For Resale With Recurate VP Brand Success Cynthia Power
Omni Talk Expert Cynthia Power, Recurate VP Brand Success, joins Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the various approaches retailers and brands can take to attack the resale market.
Fast Five Video | If Macys.com Gets Overvalued By An Irrational Investor, Does It Make A Noise?
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss a Macy’s e-commerce spinoff, Simon and Klarna, Kroger making moves in the Northeast, Facebook pop-ups, and drive-thru grocery.
Ask An Expert | How To Save The Drowning Store Employee with Quorso CEO Julian Mills
Omni Talk expert Julian Mills of Quorso joins Chris Walton to discuss all the ways agile store operations can help already very overworked retail store employees.
Ask An Expert Series | Making Mall of America Shoppable Online with Jesse Michael And Grant Buntje
Jesse Michael, Managing Director at Adeptmind, returns to the Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series with Mall of America’s VP Marketing Grant Buntje to discuss all that it takes to make the Mall of America shoppable online.
Fast Five Video | Amazon Wins Black Friday Again With New Gift Giving Feature
In this week’s Fast Five video, Chris and Anne talk Target’s holiday price matching policy, Amazon’s new gift-giving feature, Gopuff’s new store concept, Aldi Nord’s new checkout-free store, and Sunbasket now on Instacart.
Fast Five Video | $1,000 for Whole Foods Delivery? Not A Chance!
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, Chris and Anne look at Whole Foods delivery math, examine “instant delivery,” talk inventory scanning robots, question HomeGoods’ new e-commerce site, and also ask whether Stitch Fix can reimagine online shopping for apparel.
Fast Five Video | Groceryshop Highlights Plus Amazon Dressing Rooms & Walmart Health Labeling
Chris and Anne recap their highlights from Groceryshop and discuss the growing instant delivery wars, paying with their palms, Walmart labeling health and wellness products, Chick-fil-A’s new virtual storefront, and Amazon fitting rooms.
Spotlight Series Video | Signifyd CMO Indy Guha (Groceryshop Special Report)
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd CMO Indy Guha to discuss all the reasons why the grocery industry is facing an unprecedented level of digital fraud and what can be done to stop it.
Spotlight Series Video | Cooler Screens Founder & CEO Arsen Avakian (Groceryshop Special Report)
Cooler Screens Founder and CEO Arsen Avakian, in a special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series, shares with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga how his company is radically changing marketing in-store, one cooler screen at a time.
Fast Five Video | Amazon And The War On Wages
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer & Retail Group and Takeoff, A&M’s David Ritter and Kristin Kohler Burrows join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to debate Amazon’s impact on wage rates, the layoffs at Casper, Thrasio’s spending spree, Peloton’s move into private label, and Beauty Pie’s $100 million equity raise.
Fast Five Video | Go Go Amazon Go In Whole Foods
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon bringing Just Walk Out technology to Whole Foods, Kroger’s expansion into Florida, Walmart and Instacart, Hy-Vee and fitness, and the departure of Target’s CIO.
Spotlight Series Video | The Secret To Post-Pandemic Digital Marketing: Customer First, Not Channel
There have been a lot of shifts happening as a result of the pandemic: people have new shopping behaviors, they’re… Continue Reading
Fast Five Video | An Amazon Reaffirmation, Ikea Resale, and the Allbirds IPO
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon and Affirm, Ikea’s new resale program, Allbirds’ IPO, Mercatus and Instacart, and how Leap is helping DTC brands open stores.
Fast Five Video | Chris Returns To Rant About Amazon, Walmart, and Toys R Us
After a long medical leave, Chris Walton return to talk Walmart’s GoLocal program, Amazon’s move into department stores, the silliness of Macy’s partnering with Toys R Us, Shipt’s preferred shopper program, and Warby Parker’s IPO.
FTC Sues Walmart Over Money Transfer Services
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it sued Walmart in a civil lawsuit over the retailer’s failure to protect customers using… Continue Reading
Amazon Launches New Physical Retail Store Analytics Service
At Amazon, our physical retail and technology team has spent the past several years removing friction from in-store shopping experiences…. Continue Reading
Bed Bath & Beyond Replaces CEO as Retailer’s Sales Plummet
Bed Bath & Beyond is replacing CEO Mark Tritton in a leadership shakeup after the retailer struggled through another quarter of… Continue Reading
H&M Flags More Price Hikes, Profits Boosted By Fewer Discounts
Budget fashion group H&M (HMb.ST) expects to raise prices further this year, it said on Wednesday after reporting forecast-beating profits with margins… Continue Reading
Fast Five Video | Walmart’s FTC Troubles, Amazon v. Trigo, & A Bed Bath “We Told You So”
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne discuss Mark Tritton’s ouster at Bed Bath, the latest in checkout-free retailing news from Amazon and Trigo, Gap’s lab stores, and Walmart’s mounting legal woes.
Fast Five | Walmart’s FTC Troubles, Amazon v. Trigo, & A Bed Bath “We Told You So”
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Mark Tritton’s ouster at Bed Bath, the latest in checkout-free retailing news from Amazon and Trigo, Gap’s lab stores, and Walmart’s mounting legal woes.
Ask An Expert Video | Cannes 2022 Trends With Firework’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Lucas
Omni Talk Retail asked Firework’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Lucas to provide his advice for retail marketers on making Cannes-worthy creative.
Ask An Expert | Cannes 2022 Trends With Firework’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Lucas
Omni Talk Retail asked Firework’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Lucas to provide his advice for retail marketers on making Cannes-worthy creative.
Waymo’s Self-Driving Trucks Will Deliver Home Goods for Wayfair
Waymo will deliver home goods for Wayfair using its fleet of autonomous semi-trailer trucks, the company announced Tuesday. The deliveries… Continue Reading
Amazon Reportedly Plans to Hold a Second Prime Shopping Event in the Fall
Amazon is reportedly planning to hold two Prime shopping events this year, according to a report from Business Insider. The online retailer… Continue Reading
Trigo Launches Berlin’s First Autonomous Grocery Store for German Supermarket Giant REWE
Trigo, an Israel-based computer vision company disrupting retail with frictionless checkout technology, has rolled out a second hybrid autonomous grocery… Continue Reading
Reuters: Apple Ready to Bargain with New Union
Apple reportedly plans to bargain with the first of its U.S. stores that has voted to unionize. Employees at Apple’s… Continue Reading
Franchise Group Considers Lowering Kohl’s Bid Closer to $50 a Share from About $60, Source says
Retail holding company Franchise Group is weighing lowering its bid for Kohl’s to closer to $50 per share from about $60, according to a… Continue Reading
Gap Inc. Unveils 4 Lab Stores at San Francisco Headquarters
Gap Inc. on Wednesday unveiled four retail spaces at its Folsom Street headquarters in San Francisco that will serve as labs to… Continue Reading
Walmart Takes Majority Stake in Symbotic
Walmart has purchased a 62.2% stake in warehouse automation technology provider Symbotic, the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer disclosed in an SEC… Continue Reading
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