Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
Manhattan’s Senior Director, Product Strategy, Scott Fenwick, discusses all the ways retailers can capitalize on the financial opportunity latent in better allocation.
In our latest 5 Insightful Minutes, Pear Commerce Founder Eric Martell discusses what retail commerce enablement is and why it may be the next great retail innovation that helps CPGs go direct, without actually going direct.
In this week’ Fast Five, Anne and Chris discuss Roku and Best Buy, Rewe opening its biggest store yet with Trigo, H-E-B’s new partnership with Thumbtack, Meijer’s move to make Flashfood available to SNAP recipients, and Apple’s new video shopping service.
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne discuss Walmart’s healthcare expansion plans, Amazon Go’s store closures, Dollar Tree’s food push, Uber encroaching on Instacart, and Shef, the new marketplace for, you guessed it, chefs.
In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, Chris and Anne discuss Target’s earnings, Kohl’s willingness to reevaluate its pricing strategy, Amazon’s same-day sites, Instacart’s “new” omnichannel solutions, and Men’s Warehouse getting its prom on.
SPS Commerce’s very own Brandon Pierre and David Verette discuss how they’ve helped retailers and vendors be successful with EDI setup and compliance.
Shoptalk’s Krystina Gustafson and Ben Miller discuss the five trends most shaping retail right now and how they plan to cover them at Shoptalk 2023.
In today’s Fast Five, Chris & Anne discuss the latest earnings reports from Walmart and Home Depot, ThredUP launching a new online store, Instagram calling it quits on live shopping, Instacart losing yet another customer, and Barnes & Noble’s new subscription program.
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.
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Firework, Trigo, Sezzle, and Silk, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Joanna Rangarajan stopped by and joined Chris and Anne to discuss Walmart Forces Staff Back To The Office, UPS Expands RFID, & Wegmans Tries To Get Smart
Placer.ai’s VP of Marketing Ethan Chernofsky to breaks down this past holiday’s retail winners and surprises, along with those setting pace in 2023!
SAP’s SVP and Head of Solution & Innovation Experience Andre Bechtold discusses what it takes to open up a bona fide retail innovation lab right in the heart of SAP’s NYC headquarters.
Dematic Market Development Director, Kim Baudry, discusses the lessons from those 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.
In today’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne discuss Amazon pausing its Amazon Fresh rollout, Giant Eagle discontinuing its mailed advertising circulars, Instacart deploying scan-and-go with its first retailer, Belk opening its first outlet store, and Gap taking a page right out of American Eagle’s frenemy network.
Microsoft’s David Leibowitz and Ricardo Belmar discuss the steps retailers can take right now to become more resilient in the year ahead.
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