Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
New Omni Talk Expert, Art Miller, Global Head of Retail IoT at Qualcomm, joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what to do in the face of this situation and to ensure insecure technologies don’t open up security holes which could result in breaches, exposure of customer data and negatively impact your brand.
Anne Mezzenga sits down with Kroger Director, Principal Research Engineer, Victoria Uti, PhD to hear her career story that begins in Nigeria as a young, self-taught computer programmer and entrepreneur, to her current role leading the development of AI technology for the largest grocer in the US.
In this week’s podcast, Chris & Anne debate the WSJ report of huge losses for the instant delivery startups, Albertsons’ Afresh partnership, Petco and Lowe’s, and Walmart’s new store design and why its RFID push could be the most important retail headline of 2022.
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne discuss Amazon Style and Amazon Go in suburbia, Kohl’s annoying activist investors, 7-Eleven’s new subscription delivery program, Walmart’s vertical farms, and Instagram’s creator subscription pilot.
Signifyd SVP Bennett joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss how to combat the growing problem of online return fraud.
In this week’s podcast, David Ritter and Jonathan Sharp of the A&M Consumer & Retail Group join Chris and Anne to debate the checkout-free retail war, Walmart porch delivery, Gopuff getting into private label, voice ordering, and a hot new trend called Save Now, Buy Later.
Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron, Firework, and Scandit, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Gopuff Co-CEO and Co-Founder Rafael Ilishayev to talk the future of instant delivery.
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Takeoff CEO Max Pedró to discuss grocery microfulfillment.
Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss the future of shoppable content with Firework President & Chief Business Officer Jason Holland.
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Leap Co-founder and CEO Jared Golden to talk about how his company’s proprietary platform helps retailers and brands take the “leap” in licensing the soup to nuts operations of their physical stores.
In this week’s podcast, Chris and Anne discuss the new board appointees at Meta and Shopify, Yeezy Gap and Balenciaga, Shopify’s plans for physical retail, TikTok expanding its commercial reach, autonomous delivery at airports, and more!
Omni Talk Expert Quorso CEO Julian Mills once again joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga for the latest installment of the Omni Talk Ask an Expert Series to delve into one simple answer that may hold the key to helping many overwhelmed stores — making the District Manager’s life simpler, easier, and more efficient.
In this week’s Fast Five, Chris and Anne talk about Walmart’s smelly delivery plans, Bed Bath’s further decline, Pea in the Pod taking a Leap, DoorDash’s new HR policy, and Albertsons’ cool new salad bars.
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Women’s Retail Collective Podcast, Anne Mezzenga sits down with Fanatics Chief Strategic Retail Officer Gina De Caro Sprenger.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Luxer One President Josh Middlebrooks about his company’s 24/7 locker pickup implementation with Best Buy.
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