Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, Chris, Anne, and Emma the Intern break down Apple’s big fitness subscription news, Sam’s Club’s Scan & Go at the pump, Amazon’s suburban warehouses and new luxury play, and poke a little much needed fun at made up retail holidays and all the PR hype around the latest one — 10/10.
In what may be our most important retail technology podcast of the pandemic, Quorso CEO Julian Mills sits down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the ways retailers can power managers to drive better performance.
In their latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series interview, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga chat with FIT:MATCH Founder and CEO Haniff Brown.
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, Carl Boutet joins Chris, Anne, and Emma the Intern to talk the Amazon and Kohl’s grocery partnership, JCP’s buyout, Instacart and 7-Eleven, Ikea in downtown San Francisco, Walmart, drones, and shepherds.
In an Omni Talk exclusive, Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton get a live video demo store tour of Giant Eagle’s new GetGo checkout-free convenience store with Grabango Chief Business Officer Andy Radlow.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Jordan Fisher, CEO of Standard Cognition, about the future of checkout-free retail.
AI Computer vision-based checkout-free retail is all the rage right now, and Standard Cognition, with over $80 million in VC funding to date, is right at the center of that conversation, and especially in light of its recent announced plans with Circle K.
Chris and Anne discuss the origin of the company, where the technology is now and where it is going, and why deciding whether or not to retrofit physical store footprints is one of the key questions that will determine future retailer adoption.
In an Omni Talk exclusive, Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton get a live demo store tour of Giant Eagle’s new GetGo checkout-free convenience store with Grabango Chief Business Officer Andy Radlow.
Nike cuts ties with wholesalers, Facebook launches shops, Zappos plans a store for NYC, Best Buy turns stores into distribution hubs, and Taco Bell makes a pickup-only drive thru lane.
Anne Mezzenga sits down with Shelley Huff, EVP Direct-to-Consumer Serta/Simmons and CEO Tuft & Needle as part of her ongoing Women’s Retail Collective Interview Series.
In this week’s Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, let’s just say we are glad we are not in the department store industry — Nike is rumored to be cutting off many big time wholesale partners and Facebook launched Shops.
Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern talk all that plus Best Buy turning 250 stores into fulfillment hubs, Zappos opening a New York store, and Taco Bell building a drive thru line just for order pickup.
A journey that began with Tennille seeing Mamava pods within an airport ended with her cold calling Mamava herself and then working with the powers that be at Walmart to convince them to overhaul their capital remodel program and to replace Walmart’s existing mother’s rooms with more efficient, movable, and cost-effective pods, so that all Walmart customers and associates could continue to have more safe and clean places to feed their babies.
In this week’s edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss what to make of all the earnings announcements this week (including Target, Walmart, Kohl’s, and more), Simon’s acquisition of Lucky Brand, Payless making a comeback, Standard Cognition and Circle K, and what Chris thinks is a weak excuse from Amazon on its liability surrounding defective products on its third-party marketplace.
With COVID-19 now ever present, knowing where and in what parts of a store social distancing is working or not working, by way of real-time data, is more important than ever.
Kalon Welch, FastSensor EVP Business Development, sits down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga of Omni Talk to discuss the ever-trending topic of workspace journey measurement through anonymous radio frequency tracking to make better decisions during these difficult times and how active distance alert monitoring (aka ADAM) could be one of the most important tools for retailers to deploy in their stores, in their warehouses, or even as they are unloading trucks to protect all involved.
In the latest episode of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern take on all the detractors pooh-poohing the rumors of Amazon placing warehouses in Simon mall properties, discuss Wayfair’s first-ever profit, and then geek out at the massive transformative grocery and convenience headlines surrounding Walmart and Instacart, Coty and GoPuff, and Kroger creating its own third-party marketplace.
In the latest edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Sara Batchelder, VP of Retail and QSR for Numerator. Chris, Anne, and Sara discuss Numerator’s unique panel data across both online and offline shoppers and then delve into some of the insights Numerator is already seeing around things like Click-&-Collect, the online acceleration in grocery, and the early promotional spending trends across various Back-to-School categories. For example, did you know apparel promotional spend is down 60% vs. the year prior? We sure as heck didn’t.
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