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#298 U.S.-China Decoupling Conundrum with Frank Lavin Dec 20, 2021

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Export Now Founder and Chairman Frank Lavin joins Shoe-In Show this week to discuss his recent piece in Forbes exploring the fraught U.S-China relationship. With years of diplomatic experience across many U.S. administrations, Frank has a keen eye on the current challenges impacting the world's most important geopolitical relationship. Curious to explore tips for U.S. companies caught in the crossfire? Make sure you listen to this episode!

Articles referenced during our discussion: Forbes The National Interest The American Interest Grab Frank's book here

#297 Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: A Conversation with First Insight and The Rockport Company Dec 13, 2021

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Inflation and supply chain shortages will continue through the rest of 2021 and likely into the new year with consumer demand outpacing supply. The Rockport Company is leveraging First Insight's predictive analytics solution and real-time voice-of-customer price elasticity data to optimize their assortments and pricing to effectively navigate the supply chain disruption and inflation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hear from Lisa Laich, Chief Marketing Officer and Steven Holt, President at The Rockport Company, and Jim Shea, Chief Commercial Officer of First Insight, one of the world's leading Experience Management (XM) platforms that empowers companies to incorporate the Voice of the Customer through the use of online consumer engagement tools.

#296 Journeys President on Supply Chain Issues and Continued Consumer Shifts Dec 06, 2021

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Mario Gallione, President of Journeys, joins us on this episode to discuss how they are dealing with supply chain issues, how they are rethinking mall traffic measurement, and how they are preparing for continued consumer changes in 2022. A must listen to this fun and insightful episode where the Metaverse also gets a mention!

#295 Josue Solano Talks Supply Chain and Sales Nov 29, 2021

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BBC International's fearless leader Josue Solano stops by Shoe-In to discuss the current turmoil impacting the footwear supply chain, his expectations for 2022 production and sales, and the innovative ways BBC is ensuring it has key product at the right time for its retail customers.

#294 Footwear Retail Fundamentals with Chelsea Mueller of FitForCommerce Nov 22, 2021

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Shoe-In welcomes FitForCommerce Senior Consultant Chelsea Mueller as she unveils her three key strategies to successful shoe selling in the current retail environment. No matter where you're selling your shoes - in-store, online, or out of the back of your station wagon - this episode is for you.

#293 What's Up with Shoe Retail Prices? Because They Are WAY UP! Nov 15, 2021

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Matt and Andy cover the latest FDRA data showing October shoe retail prices continued to edge higher for the 6th straight month. What's data, what's behind the continued surge and will it continue? Listen to this important episode to find out!

#292 Shoeconomy Update in Realtime Nov 08, 2021

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FDRA's Chief Economist Gary Raines joins Shoe-In Show to review all the critical economic updates impacting the Shoeconomy heading into holiday 2021.

#291 Critical Shoe Political Updates with FDRA's Own Thomas Crockett Nov 01, 2021

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FDRA's own Thomas Crockett stops by Shoe-In to join in on a political potpourri discussion around the vaccine mandate, infrastructure bill negotiations, China trade, and more.

#290 FDRA's 2021 Holiday Shoe Shopper Forecast Oct 25, 2021

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FDRA asked 1,000 families where they plan to buy their shoes this holiday season, how much they plan to spend and what type of shoes they plan to buy.

#289 A Roadmap Helps Shoe Companies To Better Navigate Current Disruptions Oct 18, 2021

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This week Matthew Rubel shares some real wisdom on how companies need to think and act more strategically to deal with continued business disruption. We cover supply chain costs, retail/consumer demand shifts, long-term inflation, and capitalization issues - with Matt going through each area and laying out clear things shoe companies should focus efforts and energy on (consumers to employees) to ensure they hit the mark. This is a must listen episode to understand key changes we face as an industry and how to build real agility!

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