Spotlight Series | Revealing The Untold Truths Of Last-Mile Delivery
Openforce CEO Wendy Greenland joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the hidden and messy truths that come with doing last-mile delivery well at scale.
Spotlight Series | Why Promotions May Be The Smartest Place To Invest In Data & AI
1010data’s Chief Product Officer Jonah Ellin discusses why dedicating data and AI resources to promotional effectiveness may be the smartest decision retailers and CPGs can make right now.
Spotlight Series | A Better Way To Make Last-Mile Deliveries
Buncha Co-Founder and CEO Bharat Pulgam joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss a smarter way to think about last-mile delivery, i.e. giving customers scheduled weekly neighborhood deliveries at a fraction of the cost.
Spotlight Series | The 5 Trends Shaping Retail With Shoptalk’s Krystina Gustafson & Ben Miller
In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Shoptalk’s Krystina Gustafson and Ben Miller join Chris and Anne to discuss what they believe are the five trends most shaping retail right now and how they plan to cover them at Shoptalk 2023.
Spotlight Series | Why A Customer Data Platform Is An Essential Component Of Omnichannel Retailing
In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Treasure Data Industry Principals Irene Sibaja and Danica Konetski join Chris and Anne to discuss how retailers and CPGs can best leverage a CDP (Customer Data Platform) in this new era of omnichannel retailing.
Spotlight Series | Launching An Innovation Lab With SAP’s Andre Bechtold
SAP’s SVP and Head of Solution & Innovation Experience Andre Bechtold joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it takes to open up a bona fide retail innovation lab right in the heart of SAP’s NYC headquarters.
Spotlight Series | Why Microfulfillment May Be The Wrong Word With Dematic’s Kim Baudry
Dematic Market Development Director, Kim Baudry, discusses the lessons from large sellers who invested in microfulfillment early on and what we should expect the big bets to be as retailers shift to new closer-to-consumer strategies that deliver across all channels.
Spotlight Series | Real-Time Identity Resolution With Celebrus CEO Bill Bruno
Celebrus CEO Bill Bruno joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss identity resolution and how integral it is to real-time personalization.
Spotlight Series | How To Do Scan-&-Go The Right Way With Shopreme CCO Nico Müller
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.
Spotlight Series | Closing The Forecasting & Allocation Gap With ToolsGroup CEO Inna Kuznetsova
ToolsGroup CEO Inna Kuznetzova joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss how retailers can better align their inventory forecasting and allocation in record time.
Spotlight Series | The Fit Tech At Fleet Feet With Volumental CMO Brent Hollowell
Volumental’s Chief Marketing Officer Brent Hollowell returns to the show to discuss Chris and Anne’s experience trying out Volumental’s new foot scanner technology at the Fleet Feet store in Chicago.
Spotlight Series | Why Going To Cloud Is Easier Said Than Done With Silk’s Derek Swanson
Silk’s Chief Technology Officer Derek Swanson joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss why the idea of just “taking your retail operation to the cloud” is much easier said than done.
Spotlight Series | Decoding The Smart Store With SES-imagotag’s Philippe Bottine
SES-imagotag’s CEO North America Philippe Bottine discusses all the key ingredients that go into building a smart store.
2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Raghu Mahadevan Chief Digital Officer 7-Eleven
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Raghu Mahadevan, the Chief Digital Officer at 7-Eleven, to discuss how he and his team continue to set the bar for convenience store innovation.
Groceryshop Spotlight | Grocery Tech Trends With Microsoft’s Lisa Griego & Ricardo Belmar
Microsoft’s Lisa Griego and Ricardo Belmar kickoff Omni Talk Retail’s special Groceryshop Spotlight Podcast Series and to highlight the key tech trends they see shaping grocery over the next year
Omni Talk is the retail blog for retailers, written by retailers. Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga founded Omni Talk in 2017 and have quickly turned it into one of the fastest growing blogs in retail.