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In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss:
- Why Domino's new marketing scheme to tip customers $3 for using order pickup is a big fat dud
- Aldi's big U.S. store expansion plans
- All the recent union troubles brewing at Starbucks
- NYC bodegas striking back against the instant delivery companies
- And why Simon's new mall ghost kitchen concept solves a very real pain for parents everywhere
There's all that, plus Anne's true thoughts on Valentine's Day, the spice of dating life, and one big mea culpa from Chris on his utter inability to correctly abbreviate the state of Arkansas.
To learn more about Microsoft, visit: www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/r…cloud-for-retail
To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: www.alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/
To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/
To learn more about Sezzle, visit: www.sezzle.com/
Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/
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IoT devices in retail increased drastically within recent years, especially as the desire for digital and touchless solutions reached peak demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
And, as a result, while retailers have accelerated their digital transformation deployments at a record pace, all too often we see retailers driving IT purchases faster than IT can keep up, leading to untalked about and unforeseen issues down the road.
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.
Together they explore, through the lens of Electronic Shelf Labels (aka ESLs), how a comprehensive approach to integrated, end-to-end security can:
- Lead to more cost effective solutions
- Delight your customer
- And, help you swiftly adapt to the ever changing needs of your customers
All of which should help your CIOs and CTOs sleep better at night, knowing they can have the conversations they need to have with the rest of the C-Suite.
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In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss:
- Why Walmart's RFID push into home goods is already the front runner for the omnichannel retailing headline of 2022.
- All the reasons to be skeptical about Walmart's new store design in Springdale, AR.
- Albertsons' continued AI push, this time in its quest to reduce food waste in fresh produce with help from Afresh.
- The pluses and minuses of Petco's new Lowe's shop-in-shop partnership.
- And, why the WSJ missed out on relaying some key information in its article this week that questioned the profit position underlying the instant delivery trend.
There's all that, plus a COVID update from Chris, Anne reminiscing about shipping her pants, drunk father-in-laws who lose their shoes at weddings, and more!
To learn more about Microsoft, visit: www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/r…cloud-for-retail
To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: www.alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/
To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/
To learn more about Sezzle, visit: www.sezzle.com/
Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/
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This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
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In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss:
- Who wore it better: Amazon Style or Amazon Go in the suburbs?
- 7-Eleven's new 30 minutes or less subscription delivery program
- Chris's utter distaste for the shareholder activists at Kohl's
- Walmart's $400 million investment in vertical farming startup, Plenty
- And, Instagram's early test of creator subscriptions
There's all that, plus our favorite memories from the Manifest Conference in Las Vegas, an in person review of the new Savage X Fenty store, and Anne trying to recall the brand name of her DTC mattress that she was once hoodwinked into buying.
To learn more about Microsoft, visit: www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/r…cloud-for-retail
To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: www.alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/
To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/
To learn more about Sezzle, visit: www.sezzle.com/
Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/
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This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy
In our latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series Podcast live from the Manifest Conference in Las Vegas, brought to you in association with 1010data, we are pleased to bring you Delivery Solutions Co-Founders Manil Uppal and Arshaad Mirza.
Arshaad and Manil sit down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it feels like to be the pioneers of delivery orchestration software. Together, they:
– Go into depth about what delivery orchestration means and how it works
– Explain the importance of staying flexible in your fulfillment needs as the modern consumer is changing and the rise of instant delivery is at play
– And how their track record of success across multiple category verticals and multiple countries sets them up as the one solution provider Anne and Chris believe every retailer needs to meet.
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In our latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series Podcast live from the Manifest Conference in Las Vegas, brought to you in association with 1010data, we are pleased to bring you ECU Worldwide Chief Transformation Officer Philip Blumenthal.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Philip to get his perspective on all things related to shipping products across an ocean. Together, they discuss:
– How e-commerce is driving demand for less than container full shipments
– Why there are some products consumers are willing to wait more than 2 days to receive
– And why Factory-to-Consumer (aka FTC) commerce will only continue to grow in the years ahead
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In our latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series Podcast live from the Manifest Conference in Las Vegas, brought to you in association with 1010data, we are pleased to bring you 1010data CEO Inna Kuznetsova.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Inna to get her insightful and oftentimes hilarious take on why data collaboration holds they key to getting out in front of retail trends. Together, they discuss:
– How better supplier and retailer data collaboration can ease supply chain bottlenecks
– What categories of business continue to grow amid the pandemic
– And why subscription businesses particularly found their niche over the last two years, especially on Amazon
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In our first podcast to kickoff the Manifest Conference, brought to you in association with 1010data, we are pleased to bring you Buyk CEO James Walker.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with James to get his take on what to make of the ultra fast delivery trend. Together, they discuss:
- The consumer psychology involved
- The importance of private label
- Vertical differentiation as the key to profitability
- And, why delivery will soon be like turning on your faucet, i.e. something we do and almost take for granted that it is there.
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As part of their Spotlight AI Series from the NVIDIA and Lenovo NRF Innovation Lab, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sat down with Vistry.AI Founder and CEO, Atif Kureishy, to learn how his company is leveraging Ai to improve the overall operations and consumer experience in the QSR industry.
In this podcast, Atif does an excellent job of relaying all the different ways QSRs can find benefits from AI, including:
- Voice ordering automation at the drive thru
- Kitchen production control
- Ingredient forecasting to lower waste
- And much more, including our shared discussion of what the future of a QSR parking lot looks like!
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As part of their Spotlight AI Series from the NVIDIA and Lenovo NRF Innovation Lab, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sat down with Deep North VP of Retail Sales, Tracy Benaman, to learn how her company leverages computer vision AI to observe consumer and employee journeys in a much more objective way than standard consumer or employee surveying.
In this podcast, Tracy does an excellent job of relaying all the different aspects of how both journeys can be better understood through computer vision, including:
- Dwell times
- Line wait times
- Fitting room interactions
- Backroom operations
- And Chris's favorite -- how often the bathrooms should be cleaned!
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