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This “5 Insightful Minutes” episode explores the transformative role of generative AI (GenAI) in the retail industry with Microsoft’s Jeff Strasser. The discussion covers how major retailers like Mars, Domino’s, and Starbucks leverage GenAI to manage supply chain disruptions, labor issues, customer expectations, improve productivity, and reinforce data privacy and security.
Chris and Anne discuss NRF’s restatements about Organized Retail Crime’s impact on shrink, Uber Store Pickup, Best Buy selling on DoorDash, Walmart Canada’s store of the future, and Walmart’s foray into shoppable programming. Plus, Microsoft’s Jeff Strasser also stopped by to give 5 Insightful Minutes on Generative AI.
Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s VP, discusses Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One Palm Payments on the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast. Kumar’s 5-minute segment offers valuable insights into the future of these Amazon technologies. The conversation can be accessed on various platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
In this week’s Retail Fast Five Podcast, Chris and Anne discussed Etisalat’s new store with Trigo, Foxtrot and Dom’s merger, Allbirds selling on Amazon, what Nuuly is getting right in resale, and closed with a look at the latest store of the future from Victoria’s Secret. And Amazon VP Dilip Kumar also stopped by to give us 5 Insightful Minutes on the future of Just Walk Out tech and Amazon One Palm Pay.
Romeo Bolibol from Microsoft and Crys Kelch from GitHub joined hosts Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga for their Ask An Expert Series to discuss GenAI. They delved into the hype around GenAI, common fears in the boardroom, necessary investments, real-life examples, and the potential efficiencies AI could create.
Brian Kavanaugh, Bynder’s Director of Global Field and Customer Marketing, delved into Digital Asset Management (DAM) issues in a podcast with Chris and Anne. He discussed the challenges retailers face with DAM, its importance during key holiday seasons and in productivity and sales, its various integration points, particularly with a retailer’s PIM system, and the potential future drawbacks of not taking DAM seriously at all levels of a retail business.
Anne and Chris put the A&M Consumer and Retail Group’s Chad Lusk on the 5-minute hot seat as he shares with us the most recent findings from their survey on current consumer sentiment heading into the holidays.
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon’s Hyundai partnership, whether or not Gap’s turnaround has begun, Walgreens’ plans to ship more from its stores, what appears to be a brewing dumpster fire at Kohl’s, and the new Toys R Us flagship store at the Mall of America.
In today’s Fast Five Podcast, A&M’s Chris Creyts and Cassie Ryding stopped by to discuss what to make of this week’s earning reports, the new Amazon and Meta partnership, Amazon Buy with Prime Assist, Poshmark’s livestream Secondhand Sunday plans, and the founder of Chipotle’s new restaurant concept that runs on robots.
Amazon VP AWS Applications, Dilip Kumar, is back for his regular annual appearance to discuss how Amazon continues to think about the evolution of checkout and personal identification.
Chris and Anne discuss Amazon Style’s closure, Google discount search, Shein’s IPO valuation, IKEA’s loyalty program changes, and DoorDash’s tipping warning.
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, Chris and Anne discuss the pharmacy walkouts at CVS and Walgreens, H&M enabling customers to design their own clothes with AI, Schnucks taking local produce mobile merchandising to an unparalleled level, the implications of Instagram and Facebook offering ad-free subscriptions in Europe, and Tommy Bahama opening its own coastal theme resort in, ironically, Palm Springs, of all places.
A&M’s David Schneidman and Truett Horne stop by to discuss Walmart’s new corporate AI guidelines, Amazon’s new AI for product imagery, HomeGoods calling it quits on e-commerce, Kroger’s sustainable media push, and the rebirth of BuyBuy Baby.
Placer.ai’s SVP of Marketing Ethan Chernofsky is back once again to look back on 2023 and to share with us the biggest lessons learned from retail traffic data as we head into the holidays.
George Trantas, Avalara’s Senior Director Global Marketplaces, discuss the common mistakes retailers make (and how to avoid them) when it comes to filing taxes on their e-commerce sales.
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