Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
Groceryshop 2019 took place in Las Vegas last week, bringing together the most curious of the curious in retail, CPG and tech for four days of keynote speeches, moderated panels, technology exhibitions, and pots and pots of convention grade coffee, write Robin Report contributor Chris Walton.
Today’s Top Talk touches on Toy R’ Us’ new concept, Madison Reed pushing far into brick and mortar, and Amazon investing in electric vans.
Today’s Top Talk touches on Macy’s suspending its same-delivery fee on large orders and Caper & Trigo’s latest funding raises.
David Moran and the team at Eversight are setting out to disrupt habits. They believe that in order for your promotions to be effective, they need to challenge the norms of customer behavior. Eversight works with brands and retailers by using AI to create multiple, ongoing pricing tests, that can teach retailers how to break their customers’ habits around promotion through the concept of “micro-testing,” a practice quite common in one of our favorite industry reference points for retail too — video games.
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.
Today’s top talk touches on McDonald’s acquiring a Silicon Valley start up and Crate and Barrel pushing further into their restaurant experiences.
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.
Today’s Top Talk touches on J. Crew’s Madewell going public and Walmart unveiling its new supercenter full of services in Dallas.
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.
Today’s Top Talk touchdes on Walmart piloting a fulfillment service for vendors similar to the one offered by Amazon.
The second Groceryshop conference will take place in Vegas next week and promises to be a showcase of just how quickly the grocery industry will change over the next few years.
The gang is together again to talk a Starbucks Pickup Store, Walmart’s unlimited grocery delivery, Nordstrom Local accepting competitor returns, AiFi’s new store, and Chris’ fan boy crush on Patrick Doyle.
Today’s top talk touches on Walmart expanding their unlimited grocery delivery program, a new checkout free store in the Netherlands, and GameStop announcing store closings.
Checkout-free retail is coming. So, Chris, in his signature style and in partnership with Grabango, takes the detractors to task by busting the myths that do nothing but hold back rationale progress when it comes to the concept.
Today’s Top Talk touches on the potential impact of Amazon moving to one-day shipping, Lululemon rolling out a new brand, and Amazon processing returns at Amazon Go locations.