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Retail is alive and well - for how long?

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In this episode of Data Talks, Wolfgang Fengler sits down with Henry Armour, who led the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) for 20 years and now advises World Data Lab. Henry learned retail pumping gas at his father’s stations, earned a PhD from Stanford, and built his own convenience chain from three stores to 60.

Henry traces how gas stations and corner stores became the convenience industry, and how technology and a generational divide in shopping habits are reshaping retail today. He shares what he saw on a week-long visit to retailers in Vietnam, why…

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