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Omni Talk Retail
Omni Talk Retail provides news, analysis, and commentary on the latest trends and issues in the retail industry. Created by a retailer, Chris Walton, for retailers, Omni Talk Retail covers a wide range of topics related to retail, including e-commerce, technology, marketing, and consumer behavior. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy
Episodes
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | The Origin Story Of Zara's Parcel Robot
In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Cleveron Co-Founder Indrek Oolup returns to discuss with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga the…
Omni Talk RetailOmniStars Awards Kickoff With Quorso CEO Julian Mills
Quorso CEO Julian Mills joins Chris and Anne to kickoff this year's OmniStars Spotlight Podcast Series. Together they discuss: - Why Quorso and Omni Talk…
Omni Talk Retail2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Allison Peterson Best Buy EVP & Chief Customer Officer
In this special OmniStars of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with…
Omni Talk Retail2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Stefanie Kruse Walgreens VP Digital Commerce & Omnichannel
In this special OmniStars of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Next Generation Warehouse Fulfillment With KNAPP VP Bill Stenger
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss next generation warehouse fulfillment and automation with KNAPP…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Walmart’s Rewards Program, WhatsApp Grocery Shopping, & Instacart Goes Big & Bulky
In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, Chris Walton and…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Peloton To Sell On Amazon, Apple Wants Ads, & Walmart Gets Giggy With It
In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, Chris Walton and…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | The Top Supply Chain Concerns Keeping Retail Executives Up At Night
Supply chain. Supply chain. Supply chain. The topic is certainly top of mind of late, but what about it is really on the minds of your average retail…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Target’s Earnings, Amazon’s QuikTrip, & Walmart’s Paramount Out Of A Molehill
In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, A&M’s David Brown…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | The 411 On Embedded Finance With Alviere CEO Yuval Brisker
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Alviere CEO Yuval Brisker to understand why it is only a matter of time before embedded finance, i.e. the idea of…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Walmart’s Streamy Desires, Amazon Same-Day, & A Nightmare Before Christmas At Kohl’s
In today’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, Chris Walton and…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | The Key To Great Customer Service In 2022 & Beyond With Serta Simmons
Omni Talk Retail, in partnership with Talkdesk, welcomed Chris McShane, the Senior Vice President of Customer Experience at Serta Simmons, and Amber Scott, the…
Omni Talk RetailFive Insightful Minutes On The State Of Commerce With Signifyd's Bennett
Signifyd's SVP of Operations and Corporate Development, Bennett, gets hit with the tough questions from Omni Talk Retail, as he shares the most important…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Prime Day Hot Takes, Google Search Revelations, & A Big Kroger ‘Boost’
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, A&M’s Hemant Kalbag…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Walmart Please Roll Our Boat Ashore In Your Fancy Canoo
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, Sezzle, and Groceryshop, Chris Walton and…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Upside's Tyler Renaghan On Combatting Inflation With Personalization
Inflation is impacting retail business across the board, from gasoline to groceries, and historically the go-to solution has been to cut costs wherever you…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon Grubs, Kohl’s Is Kohl’s, & Bed Bath Is Buying Back Shares Like It Isn’t Their Job
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Walmart’s FTC Troubles, Amazon v. Trigo, & A Bed Bath “We Told You So”
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | Cannes 2022 Trends With Firework's Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Lucas
Cannes, one of the biggest events for marketers around the world, just held its annual festival doling out awards to the best and brightest in the industry and…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon’s Big Prime Day Swing, Simon Search, & Walmart Wants In On TV Commerce
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Walmart Is Automating, Target Is Backtracking, & Amazon Is Smoking A Drone Pipe Dream
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M's Chad Lusk and Truett Horne join Chris…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Empowering The Contact Center With Talkdesk VP Shannon Flanagan
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Talkdesk's VP Global Industry Strategy for Retail…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Dollar General Expands Self-Checkout, Old Navy Cuts Sizes, & Sephora Goes Curbcierge
In today's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon Style Debuts, Walmart Misfires (So Badly) On Drones, & Nordstrom Closes Its Trunk
In today's take no prisoners Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Anne Mezzenga…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | A Mid-Year Report On Livestream Commerce With Firework CEO Vincent Yang
Livestreaming, and specifically Firework, was the #1 hot topic coming out of Shoptalk this year. So Omni Talk Retail invited Firework CEO and Co-Founder…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Battling Account Takeover Fraud With Signifyd CMO Indy Guha
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Video Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd’s CMO Indy Guha to learn all they…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Target & Walmart's Earnings, Instacart's IPO, & Zara Charging For Returns
In today's episode of the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, David Ritter and…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | The Future Of Customer Service & Loyalty
Amid the ever-increasing omnichannel nature of our retail experiences, it can be difficult to know how best to solve customer issues when they arise. It isn’t…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Turning Everything From Phones To Floor Scrubbers Into Smart Retail Devices
What devices in your store could be working harder for you? That is the question we posed to Scandit CTO and Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier in our latest…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Deploying Computer Vision In A Store Is One Thing, Scaling It Is Something Else
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Rafay's CEO Haseeb Budhani and HP's VP of Retail…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Starbucks In The Metaverse, Robots Delivering Ice Cream, & IKEAs You Can't Get Lost In?
In today's special Wednesday edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Target 'Nails' It Again, While H-E-B Goes Big & Publix Nibbles On Instacart's Carrot
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: - Had a split…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Buy With Prime, American Eagle Makes ‘Frenemies,’ & Amazon’s Biggest Go Store Yet!
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 had a ball…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon's Letters, Lululemon's New Membership, & Fenway Park's Latest Caper
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: - Gave their…
Omni Talk RetailMeta's Metaverse Moves, Zara's High-Tech Flagship, and Target's "On-Again" With thredUP
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M’s Chad Lusk and Hemant Kalbag joined Anne…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | Building A Network Within 3 Miles Of Every Customer With Purolator's Laurie Weston
Part of what makes the concept of omnichannel retailing so great is the idea that retail is now perpetual, i.e. always on and available to consumers whenever…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | How Meta Envisions The Future Of Retail With Meta VP of Commerce Emma Rodgers
To understand the future of commerce and words like the “metaverse,” it is important to place things in the proper context. So Omni Talk is pleased to announce…
Omni Talk RetailWomen's Retail Collective Podcast | Meijer's GVP Marketing & Customer Strategy Amanda Mcvay
In the latest Women's Retail Collective Podcast Anne Mezzenga sits down with Meijer's Group Vice President, Marketing & Customer Strategy: Retail Media…
Omni Talk Retail5 Insightful Minutes On Consumer Sentiment With A&M's Jonathan Sharp
A&M's Jonathan Sharp gets hit with tough questions from Omni Talk Retail, as he shares the most important insights from the A&M Consumer & Retail Group's…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | The Latest Data On Instacart with 1010data Chief Product Officer Jonah Ellin
Instacart dropped a big bomb recently, devaluing the company while, at the same time, announcing a new “platform” approach to their strategy going forward, and…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Target Takes Food Stamps Online, Farfetch Finances Neiman, & Kroger Kicks It Up A Notch
In this week’s Fast Five video, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discuss: - Target accepting food…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Bagpipes For Instacart, BNPL For Gas, And A Legal Battle Royale Over Scan-&-Go
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris and Anne discuss: - Using BNPL at the…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | DoorDash VP of Global Partnerships Shanna Prevé
In this special Shoptalk edition of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series brought to you through the support of Meta, Anne Mezzenga sits down with DoorDash VP of…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Making Sure The Shoe Fits So You Can Wear It With Volumental CMO Brent Hollowell
Lululemon dropped its new shoe line last week, and none of that would have been possible without the help and support of Volumental's proprietary fit data…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Conquering Grocery Waste With Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz
Food waste, and particularly waste from fresh meats and vegetables, is a continued drag on grocers' bottom lines. So Omni Talk is pleased to announce that…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Returns, Returns, & More Returns With Narvar CEO & Founder Amit Sharma
There is probably no topic more on the mind of retailers than what do with online returns. So Omni Talk is pleased to announce that Narvar CEO Amit Sharma…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon Fresh’s Net Zero Emission Mission & Anne’s Review Of Lululemon’s New Shoe
In this week’s Fast Five video, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, Chris takes a break from 2022 Walton Family…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Twitter Shops & A Macy's Website Overhaul With A Side Of Starbucks Window Dressing
In this week's Fast Five, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M’s David Ritter and Michael Prendergast joined…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | 3 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Livestreaming Strategy With Firework CEO Vincent Yang
Livestreaming is quite the hot topic now that everyone from Walmart to Amazon is doing it which means many of you have likely been asked by your bosses or your…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | The Practical Use Cases Of Visual AI With ViSenze CCO Brendan O'Shaughnessy
Long have we talked about Visual AI as the most important technology that will shape retail over the next decade. So Omni Talk is pleased to announce that…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon’s Pawns, Lululemon’s New Shoes, & Why Ryan Cohen Is Our New Favorite Activist
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: -…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | Microsoft & Adobe Set Us Straight On The Post-Pandemic Customer
Sure, the pandemic has “accelerated digital trends” throughout retail, but what the heck does that phrase really mean? While it is easy to say, it is quite…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | Taking BNPL In Store With Sezzle VP of Growth Chris Bixby
Buy Now, Pay Later is one of the hottest trends in retail right now, and, while most of the BNPL activity happens online, that is about to change . . …
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Starbucks Curbside At Target, Amazon Go At Whole Foods, & DoorDash Brazenly Goes Rogue
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: - All…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | DoorDash's Big Mac Attack, Amazon's Ads, & Macy's Pretzels
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, A&M's David Brown and Chad Lusk join Chris…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Starbucks Unionization, Aldi's New Store Plans, & Why Domino's Can Keep The Tip
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…
Omni Talk RetailAsk An Expert | An Open Discussion On IT Security With Qualcomm Global Head Of Retail IoT Art Miller
IoT devices in retail increased drastically within recent years, especially as the desire for digital and touchless solutions reached peak demand during the…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Chris Has Covid, Walmart Has RFID, & Why The WSJ Has It Wrong About Instant Delivery
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…
Omni Talk RetailFast Five | Amazon Style? Suburban Amazon Go? How's A Vertical Farm Like Walmart To Keep Up?
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…
Omni Talk RetailSpotlight Series | Orchestrating Delivery With Delivery Solutions Arshaad Mirza & Manil Uppal
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…