Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon’s new apparel store, the ridiculousness of Walmart’s drone announcement, Wayfair’s new store, Firework’s money raise, and Nordstrom shutting down Trunk Club.
Omni Talk Retail asked Firework CEO and Co-Founder Vincent Yang to provide his mid-year report on the state of livestreaming across retail.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd’s CMO Indy Guha to learn all they can about the latest fiendish effort being used to defraud consumers, aka Account Takeover (or AKO, if you are in the know).
A&M’s David Ritter and Mike Simoncic join Chris and Anne to give their take on this week’s earnings reports, Instacart’s IPO, Zara’s new return policy, Peloton’s troubles, and Walmart’s college hiring push.
Talkdesk’s Genesis Miranda Longo and Antonio Gonzalez provide their expert opinions on how to think about the future of customer service and loyalty.
Scandit CTO Christian Floerkermeier discusses how almost anything in a store can be turned into a smart device.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss what it takes to scale computer vision across thousands of store locations with Rafay’s CEO Haseeb Budhani and HP’s VP of Retail and Industry Solutions Cory McElroy.
Chris and Anne discuss IKEA’s store investment plans, Adidas and Foot Locker, Unilever’s mobile ice cream stores, Sweetgreen’s digital pickup-only concept, and how to look at Starbucks and its digital future.
In this week’s podcast, Chris & Anne discuss Publix’s new partnership with Instacart, HEB’s new store, Verizon expanding pickup lockers, Target’s new nail robot, and Victoria’s Secret selling on Amazon.
Chris and Anne discuss the latest additions to Amazon’s biggest Amazon Go store yet, new store concepts from Meta and MorningSave, Buy with Prime, and a radical new supply chain idea out of American Eagle.
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Andrew Jassy’s letter to shareholders, Lululemon’s new paid membership, Caper Counter, the new Champs store concept, and Pensa at Lunds & Byerlys.
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Hemant Kalbag… Continue Reading
Purolator’s Laurie Weston, joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it takes to build a supply network within 3 miles of every customer.
Meta’s VP of its Commerce Business, Emma Rodgers, joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to give her perspective on how the future of retail will shape up.
In the latest Women’s Retail Collective Podcast Anne Mezzenga sits down with Meijer’s Group Vice President, Marketing & Customer Strategy: Retail… Continue Reading
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