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Every retailer goes into the year thinking that their strategies are the right ones, so Omni Talk Retail has asked Placer.ai’s VP of Marketing Ethan Chernofsky to break down how the biggest retail strategy bets of the year look to be playing out for the next installment of their Ask An Expert Podcast Series.
Kohl’s and Sephora? Amazon Fresh? Retail Media Networks?
Which bets will they cover? And what will Placer.ai’s data say about them?
You will just have to listen to find out.
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In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Dilip Kumar, Amazon's current VP of Amazon Web Services Applications and the former VP of Amazon Physical Retail and Technology, to discuss how Just Walk Out technology came to be and where it is going next.
Together they discuss:
- Dilip's lessons learned since the beginning of the Just Walk Out journey
- His approach to physical vs. digital-only innovation
- The origin story of the Amazon One palm payment system
- And, most importantly, the shared belief across Amazon that no solution is ever final
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In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Raghu Mahadevan, the Chief Digital Officer at 7-Eleven, to discuss how he and his team continue to set the bar for convenience store innovation.
Together they discuss:
- The purposefully broad scope of Raghu's role at 7-Eleven
- How Raghu determines the right omnichannel priorities
- The ongoing feedback loop with 7-Eleven stores
- And, most importantly, where Raghu and 7-Eleven plan to take things next
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In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Silk, Chris and Anne:
- Discuss the significance of Amazon’s record number of Prime sign ups during its - Thursday night NFL broadcast last week
- Shower praise on Walmart for its new livestreaming efforts with Firework
- Get right and steamy mad about Instacart’s Connected Stores platform hokum
- Love Lowe’s decision to create digital twins of its stores with NVIDIA
- And, mark this day down folks, also close with a second salute to Walmart for its plans to offer customer checking accounts
There’s all that, plus witchy women, Anne singing Kanye, and the difference between “extra dirty” and “filthy.”
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Microsoft's Lisa Griego and Ricardo Belmar join Chris and Anne to kickoff Omni Talk Retail's special Groceryshop Spotlight Podcast Series and to highlight the key trends they see shaping grocery over the next year.
Together they discuss:
- Retail Media Networks
- Data centricity
- Pricing management
- Frictionless checkout
- Digital Shelf Optimization
- And much more!
Stay to the end, and you will even hear Lisa's sleeper pick for the biggest grocery tech trend of 2023!
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In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Cooler Screens Chief Revenue Officer Lindell Bennett and Microsoft's Director of Industry Solutions for Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Robin Laylin join Chris and Anne to discuss how every grocer's cooler and freezer doors can be turned into a bona fide weapon within one's retail media network.
Together they discuss:
- Digitizing a grocer's understanding of the physical store
- How in-store digital media can be easily tied into one's retail media network
- And how and why digital media on cooler and freezer doors can also be used to drive center store purchases
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In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Flintfox's Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer Cath Brands and Microsoft's Director of Worldwide Retail and Consumer Goods Partner Strategy Sue McMahon join Chris and Anne to discuss the massive technological opportunity that exists for CPGs to scale their pricing execution and negotiations.
Together they discuss:
- Why inflation is driving a focus on cost control and profit maximization
- How technology can improve bottom line profit by better tracking and affecting price levels across multiple retailers
- And how companies like Coca-Cola are empowering their teams with in-the-moment understanding and autonomy during their negotiation processes with retailers
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In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Blue Yonder's Senior Director of Solutions Strategy Erin Halka and Microsoft’s Director of Retail and Consumer Goods Paula Beckel join Chris and Anne to discuss the next generation order management capabilities required to succeed in this new era of omnichannel retailing.
Together they discuss:
- How inventory visibility is impacted across every level of a retail operation, from the warehouse to in store planograms to what is available on an e-commerce website
- Why having accurate inventory upfront in the purchase journey, on every product detail page, is essential
- And why a proper functioning cloud-based order management system is perhaps the most important foundational technology in which grocers should invest
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In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Amperity's Head of Product Solutions Matt Hallett and Microsoft’s Sr. Director of Business Strategy for Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods Mike Edmonds join Chris and Anne to discuss how technology can help to clean every grocer's messy consumer data and thereby bring even more power to one's retail media network.
Together they discuss:
- Why customer data is so messy to begin with
- How clean data can improve your marketing ROI with your customers and CPG partners
- And why a focus on clean data can help grocers to take an "eat what you cook" approach to measuring the impact of their retail media network initiatives
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In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and and Silk, A&M’s David Ritter and Mohit Mohal joined Anne and Chris to discuss:
- Starbucks’ efforts to load balance online orders at its stores.
- The long-term impact of Nike’s new, more sustainable fabric, Forward.
- Wegmans calling it quits on scan-and-go mobile shopping.
- The value of Pier 1’s owner throwing Tuesday Morning a lifeline.
- And closed with a saucy roundabout on Target’s new FAO Schwarz partnership.
There’s all that, plus buying iPhones while intoxicated, Super Bowl halftime nostalgia, and asking Alexa for tips on how to get gum out of a kid's hair.
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