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Live From Manifest | Dollar Shave Club Chief Supply Chain Officer Justin Brown

February 9, 2023

Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton sit down with Dollar Shave Club’s Chief Supply Chain Officer Justin Brown to get his thoughts on the future of the retail, what needs to happen for retailers and brands to evolve, and all the cool tech he’s checking out at Manifest to make that possible.

Live From Manifest | Pepsico Labs Global GM Anna Farberov

February 9, 2023

Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton sit down with Pepsico Labs GM Anna Farberov to find out what tech she and her team are looking for at Manifest, what they’re up to in the “lab” and how tech companies and brands can get involved.

Live From Manifest | Luxer One President Josh Middlebrooks

February 9, 2023

Josh Middlebrooks discusses Harbor Lockers first-of-its-kind pilot in Sacramento where retailers and brands, large and small, can tap into Harbor Locker’s public locker system via API integration without an upfront capital investment.

Ask An Expert | 3 Steps Retailers Can Take To Become More Resilient In 2023

February 8, 2023

Microsoft’s David Leibowitz and Ricardo Belmar discuss the steps retailers can take right now to become more resilient in the year ahead.

Spotlight Series | Real-Time Identity Resolution With Celebrus CEO Bill Bruno

February 6, 2023

Celebrus CEO Bill Bruno joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss identity resolution and how integral it is to real-time personalization.

Fast Five | Prime Grocery Delivery Fees, Project Unlock & The Radical Redesign Of Amazon Fresh

February 2, 2023

In this week’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne discuss the new design of Amazon’s two newest Amazon Fresh stores in London, grocery delivery fees for Prime customers, Sam’s Club’s store expansion plans, Walmart’s marketplace seller initiatives, and Project Unlock at Lowe’s, which takes RFID to a whole other level.

Fast Five | $5 Drugs, Walmart Business+ & If An Amazon Fresh Closes In London, Does It Make A Noise?

January 26, 2023

In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Amazon’s RxPass, Dollar General’s new mobile health clinics, Walmart’s latest play to appeal to small businesses, the latest Chinese shopping app, Temu, to rocket up the charts, and whether Amazon’s decision to close an Amazon Fresh store in London after only 18 months heralds the end of Amazon’s grocery store plans.

Fast Five | Walmart’s ‘Salesforce,’ Rent The Runway’s Desperation & Starbucks Dashed To Your Door 

January 19, 2023

In today’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Jonathan Sharp and Michael Prendergast joined Chris and Anne to discuss the Walmart and Salesforce partnership, Starbucks going national with DoorDash, Rent The Runway’s Amazon Storefront, Trigo’s first U.S. store, and Portillo’s making its drive-thrus cashless in the name of safety.

Fast Five | Instagram Cries Uncle On Shopping, Babies R Us is Reborn & Amazon Extends Buy With Prime

January 12, 2023

In today’s Fast Five podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Instagram calling it quits on shopping, Amazon extending Buy With Prime to all retailers, the comeback of Babies R Us, Nestlé’s first smart DTC fulfillment center, and the new “sip and stroll” law in Arizona.

Ask An Expert | How Retail Customer Service Will Evolve In 2023

January 12, 2023

Talkdesk’s Antonio Gonzalez, Senior Manager of Industries Research & Insights, provides his expert opinion on how retailers and brands should approach the new interactive and unified world of retail customer service.

Spotlight Series | How To Do Scan-&-Go The Right Way With Shopreme CCO Nico Müller

January 9, 2023

Shopreme Chief Customer Officer Nico Müller joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it takes to make a scan-and-go checkout system really work.

Fast Five | Amazon Zombie Stores, DoorDash Package Pickup, & Something Super Duper

January 5, 2023

In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, Chris and Anne discuss the mounting concerns over Amazon’s many “Zombie” Amazon Fresh stores that remain unopened throughout the country, Schnucks expanding its Flexforce pilot, American Eagle and JLL inking a warehousing partnership, DoorDash getting into package returns, and an exciting new startup out of Israel, Super Duper, that aims to be an automated microwarehouse and a grocer at the same time!

5 Insightful Minutes On CPG Revenue & Margin Management With A&M’s David Schneidman

January 4, 2023

The A&M Consumer & Retail Group’s David Schneidman discusses how CPGs need to look at revenue and margin management (i.e. RMM) amid the ever present challenges of inflation, increasing omnichannel complexity, labor shortages, and rising customer acquisition costs.

Fast Five | 2022 Annual Omni Talk Awards Show

December 22, 2022

In our last Fast Five Podcast of 2022, two of our favorite guests, A&M’s David Ritter and David Brown, join Chris and Anne to recognize the best in retail over the past year.

Fast Five | Shein’s Marketplace & Amazon’s Plans To Kill Barcodes Amid TikTok Envy Gone Awry

December 15, 2022

In today’s Fast Five podcast, Chris and Anne dissect Shein’s reported marketplace plans, Amazon launching its TikTok-inspired “Inspire,” Nordstrom Rack pulling back on store based fulfillment, Walmart throwing its weight behind visual search, and Amazon’s grand plans to eradicate the barcode.

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