Rethink Retail

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, Karl Haller, partner at the IBM Consumer Center of Competency, joins us to discuss IBM's new key findings on consumer attitudes toward hybrid shopping, sustainability, and purpose-driven brands. In his role at IBM, Karl Haller leads a team of industry experts who develop transformational solutions and programs for leading retailers and CPGs across the globe. Before becoming a partner at IBM, Karl was a retail executive for flagship brands such as Brooks Brothers and The Limited. Download the full report at: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/YZYLMLEV If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Hare Produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, we discuss why marketers need more than just predictions—they need real strategy and insights. Joining the show is Meghann York. Meghann is the global head of product marketing and marketing solutions at Emarsys, an SAP company. Together we dive into Emarsys' new report titled “unPredictions: Commerce Marketing Priorities Powering 2022.” About the guest: Meghann York is a dynamic marketing leader who specializes in sales and strategy development, organization design, resourcing, and market development. As a thought leader in her field, Meghann applies creative thinking to solve big marketing challenges. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Paul Lewis Produced by Gabriella Bock Edited

Today we’re kicking off another episode of the Retail Rundown podcast with guest Pawel Grabowski. Pawel is the Head of unmanned solutions at Żabka Polska, which is the largest, formatted, and centralized chain of convenience stores in Central and Eastern Europe. On today's episode, we discuss the store's recent roll out of 25 autonomous stores, powered by AiFi. In his career, he has worked with global clients on the transition to a technology platform-based economy, data-driven strategy development, and an omnichannel approach to customer service. Pawel is also a lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, guest Simeon Siegel and host Julia Raymond Hare weigh in on the DTC vs. wholesale debate. Simeon Siegel is the managing director and a senior retail and e-commerce analyst at BMO Capital Markets. Simeon began his career at Goldman Sachs and has since been named a Rising Star of Wall Street by Institutional Investor, a Rising Star of Equity Research by Business Insider, and has been named one of the Wall Street Journal's top analysts. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Hello, Happy New Year, and welcome to 2022! On today’s special episode, we’ll hear from retail thought leaders about their vision for the new year. Today's guests include Oliver Banks, Guy Courtin, Marie Driscoll, Michael LeBlanc, Tom Litchford, Christine Russo, and Gautham Vadakkepatt. We’ll also hear from innovative retail solution providers, such as Adam Gray with Tabs Analytics, which is a division of Blacksmith Applications. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this special episode, we rundown the year with clips from episodes past as we say goodbye to 2021. Featuring commentary from Neighborhood Goods' Matt Alexander, Starbucks' John Boline, CAMP's Nikki Kaufman, and Gap's Dan Goldman. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, we dive deep into the store experience with retail and merchandising experts Ken Kuperstein and Andrew Smith. We discuss the modern relationship between the shelf and the store experience and how experiential retail extends beyond the consumer to include areas like store teams and professional shoppers. Guests: Ken Kuperstein leads One Door’s marketing efforts, evangelizing it’s store-centric and collaborative approach to retail merchandising and driving demand for its Merchandising Cloud platform. Andrew Smith co-authored Retail Innovation Reframed and is currently Co-founder and Managing Partner for the Americas of ThinkUncommon, a global retail innovation advisory and action firm that helps retailers. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star r

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. The countdown to Black Friday has officially commenced! And with shoppers starting earlier than ever, retailers are having to get creative with their BFCM promotions. In this episode, guest Gina Yuter joins host Julia Raymond Hare to discuss personalization and merchandising strategies for the holiday/EOY season. Gina is a Partnership Manager at Syte, a leading product discovery platform for e-commerce. She has been active in the eCommerce industry for the past 5 years, focusing primarily on business development and partnership-building. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, we dive deep into the labor and workforce challenges currently impacting retail and numerous other industries, both in the United States and abroad. Joining the show are guests, Nikki Baird and Jack Bennett. Nikki Baird is a well known former retail industry analyst and the vice president of retail innovation at Aptos, a retail enterprise solution provider. Jack Bennett is the senior director of solution experience at Ceridian, a global human capital management software company. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Paul Lewis Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. This episode is part two of our deep dive into the 2021 holiday shopping season and features insights from the National Retail Federation and Proper Insights & Analytics' 2021 Consumer Holiday Survey. Joining the show today is Katherine Cullen. Katherine is the senior director of industry and consumer insight at the NRF, where she leads the NRF's research on consumer spending and emerging retail trends and develops new research, initiatives and partnerships. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Paul Lewis Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. This episode is part one of our deep dive into the 2021 holiday shopping season and features insights from Adobe's annual holiday shopping forecast. Joining the show today is Taylor Schreiner, director of Adobe Digital Insights, where he leads a team of data scientists and researchers, who dig into Adobe’s vast data set to provide consumers, businesses and policymakers a real time pulse on the evolving digital economy. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Paul Lewis Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, we spoke with Jim Marcum, chief executive officer of David's Bridal, about how the company sold to brides during a year without weddings and its plans to meet the demand of next year's big wedding boom. David’s Bridal is the largest American bridal-store chain and currently operates over 300 stores across 49 states, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Jim is a seasoned retail, consumer and services industry veteran with over 30 years experience leading national public and private companies. Prior to David’s Bridal, Jim served as CEO, COO and CFO of notable companies like Central Parking, Circuit City, Hollywood Entertainment, Stage Stores and Marshalls If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Ray

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce. In this episode, we spoke with Siobhán Lonergan, chief brand officer at Shapermint, about the role body-positive branding has played in the company's massive growth. We also spoke about how work-from-home culture brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the company's branding strategies as well as its goals for the future.  Prior to joining Shapermint, Siobhán served in the same role at Thinx. She was also EVP of Design Intelligence at Sterling Brands New York, where she led global rebrands for Kleenex, Huggies, Aspirin and Aleve. Siobhán also pioneered and developed internal design processes for Kimberly-Clark to elevate the importance of design within their baby and personal care divisions. In addition to her brand-building experience, Siobhán has led innovation initiatives for Pepsi, Mars, Kellogg's and Mitsubishi which

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. In this episode, we spoke with Bill Ready, president of commerce and payments at Google, about the features Google has put in place to make it easier for merchants to get discovered. Bill also dives into the key consumer trends impacting e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail as well the steps Google is taking to improving the consumer shopping journey. Before joining Google, Bill was the Chief Operating Officer at PayPal, responsible for product, technology, engineering, end-to-end customer experiences and chaired PayPal’s Operating Group which was responsible for delivering on revenue and profit goals for the company globally. Previously, Bill was CEO of Braintree and Venmo, building both from early stage startups into industry leaders which were ultimately acquired by PayPal. He also served as executive in residence at Accel Partner

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. In this episode, you’ll enjoy a sneak preview of the insights guests Jenny Oh and Shannon Ryan will share during Valtech’s annual Innova event, held Oct. 7-8. Jenny Oh is the general manager of tech venturing and innovation at PepsiCo Labs where she leads PEP Labs to drive innovation through partnerships with leading cutting-edge startups, focusing on solving critical business needs for PepsiCo Shannon Ryan is the executive vice president of North America for Valtech, where he helps leadership teams map, understand and execute digital strategy, mostly in the world of retail, CPG, and B2B. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. What will commerce look like in 2025? On today’s episode, we’re covering a few key takeaways from our recently released report "The Future of Commerce 2025", which reveals the top 10 fastest-growing areas that will reshape how we shop over the next 3 years: https://bit.ly/3CNBmJK Joining us today are guests Alex Becker and Ricardo Belmar. Alex is the Vice President of Sales at Linnworks, a total commerce solution that connects, manages and automates commerce operations, powering businesses to sell wherever their customers are and capture every revenue opportunity. Ricardo is a RETHINK Retail Top Influencer and Advisor. He’s also the Senior Partner Marketing Advisor for Retail at Microsoft, founder of Retail Razor and advisor for George Mason University—at its Center for Retail Transformation. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us kn

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. Today we dive in to top grocery news in honor of the Groceryshop event currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. We also share our recently published report “Grocery Trends 2021: The Call for Essential Adaptability” on the changes, challenges and expectations facing the grocery industry: https://bit.ly/3nPDdcJ If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

We’re kicking off another episode of RETHINK Retail with guest Jason Stuckey. Jason is an authority in advertising and e-commerce with over 10 years of experience in digital marketing, e-commerce strategy, and back-office operations. Jason has launched many successful Direct-to-Consumer endeavors for celebrities Rihanna, Kate Hudson, Kim Kardashian, and Michael B Jordan, and has been an integral part of building over a dozen online and brick and mortar businesses. Jason has a deep understanding of e-commerce and, in his role as General Manager at Linnworks, uses his experience to implememt successful Total Commerce strategies for thousands of global sellers and brands. Join us as we discuss the role of experience for today’s e-commerce shopper, the challenges facing e-commerce retailers this holiday shopping season, and the key factors for consideration for retailers to manage their brand across multiple selling channels. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel an

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. What has been China’s role in the global supply chain shift? Joining us today is Rosemary Coates. Rosemary is a supply chain expert and the executive director of the Reshoring Institute and the president of Blue Silk Consulting. Rosemary is also the author of five books, including a best seller on Amazon called: "42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China." If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail. In this episode, host Marie Driscoll, managing director of luxury and fashion at Coresight Research, sits down with Fluent Commerce's Chad Hooker to discuss the future of airport retail, the changing traveler, and how OMS is changing the way people shop for products on the ground and in the sky. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted by Marie Driscoll Written and produced by Gabriella Bock Edited by Trenton Waller