Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
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Rakuten Ready, formerly Curbside, made some of the first store pickup experiences possible, and now CEO Jaron Waldman sits down with Chris and Anne on the hustling and bustling Grocershop trade show floor to tells us how the team is revolutionizing what that “pick-up” wil mean in the coming years.
Chris & Anne interview LISNR CEO Rodney Williams, live from Groceryshop. Rodney Williams is one to keep an eye on folks. He discusses how ultrasonic payment technology could be on the brink of changing retail checkout experiences in transformative ways, especially in concert with other advances in computer vision and checkout-free retail design.
Our first Spotlight Series from Groceryshop 2019 features GrocerKey CEO, Jeremy Neren. Jeremy started his company back in 2006, delivering convenience items by bicycle to college students on the UW-Madison campus. He’s since grown GrocerKey to become a strategic white-label e-commerce solution that can do everything from optimizing order fulfillment and inventory management to facilitating last-mile delivery for grocers across the country.
In part two of our Spotlight Series with News America Marketing, we sit down with their SVP and General Manager of Digital, Michael Pollack. In this episode, we discuss the advantages for individual retailers and the industry at large, when we start thinking about the stores as a media channel. We talk about how leveraging the data from that channel is a win for the entire ecosystem, making the in-store experience more personalized and more valuable to the shopper, the shopper marketer, the market and the brands.
By 2020, some studies predict 50% of searches will be done through voice. That means there’s a lot to prep. From shifting your SEO and site strategies to beefing up your company’s FAQ and contact pages, we go through it all with Uberall SVP of Marketing and Communications, Norman Rohr on this latest edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series podcast.
Omni Talk scores an exclusive announcement interview with Grabango CEO, Will Glaser. We talk about the difference between Amazon Go-style and other checkout-free experiences and what it takes to bring checkout-free retail to scale in light of his company’s planned partnership with Giant Eagle.
As a retailer in the “I want it how I want it, when I want it” economy, having accurate and up-to-date search results about your store and your inventory is a necessity. Omni Talk interviews Moz CEO, Sarah Bird, to talk about how retailers should be approaching this new reality in what might be our most informative (and hysterical) Spotlight Series to date.
Omni Talk sits down with Hearful CEO, Lisa Kobylarz, to discuss the important role reviews play in the world of new retail, and how retailers should be using them to improve everything from product development to product detail page positioning and site searches.
Omni Talk and Narrativ founder and CEO, Shirley Chen discuss how consumers search products online, and how online retailers now have the power to provide the same information online as customers would receive in a physical store. Listen as Shirley explains how Narrativ’s platform uses partnerships with publishers to provide retailers and their customers the best online shopping experiences possible.
Omni Talk and Planet 13 Co-CEO, Bob Groesbeck talk about the future of the Cannabis Experience Center they are building in Las Vegas. Bob walks Anne and Chris through their plans to take Planet 13, the world’s largest cannabis store, and to expand it into one of the most dynamic retail experience stores the industry has ever seen.
Self-driving stores are poised to unlock the first new retail channel since e-commerce. Shopping in your pajamas moves beyond the mobile device, when the physical store comes to your door. Omni Talk discusses how this is possible, and the future of autonomous stores with Ali Ahmed, CEO and Founder of Robomart.
Omni Talk sits down with True Fit Co-Founder, Romney Evans live from Shoptalk to understand how their platform gives shoppers the confidence that the products they buy online will fit right, the first time.
Omni Talk gets real on AI and what it means to Satisfi Labs SVP Enterprise and Retail Justine Santa Cruz. We discuss how to leverage AI to create customer interactions that maintain a brand’s personality and the ability to be “always on” when answering customer inquiries.
Omni Talk sits down with Optoro SVP of e-commerce, Larisa Summers live from Shoptalk to discuss the rapidly evolving returns space and how it can make or break a retailer’s business.
Chief Global Content Officer, Zia Daniell Wigder, shares with the Omni Talk audience all that goes in to the most anticipated event in retail. We cover their newly announced Retail Club, Retail Education Certificate and the 75 trends that will change retail in the next 10 years.
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