Episodes
Aug. 2, 2022
Five 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 insights from his company's newly released State of Commerce Report for...
July 22, 2022
Fast 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 and Jonathan Sharp joined Anne and Chris to discuss
- All the st...
July 13, 2022
Fast 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 Anne Mezzenga:
- Praised Walmart for their purchase of 4,500 electr...
July 13, 2022
Spotlight 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 can, but perhaps there’s an alternative?
In Omni Talk Retail’s lates...
July 8, 2022
Fast 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 discussed:
- The aftermath of Kohl’s proposed deal with the Franch...
June 30, 2022
Fast 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:
- Took another victory lap on their long held position that Mark ...
June 29, 2022
Ask 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 Retail is bringing you a full recap, minus the super ya...
June 24, 2022
Fast 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 had a blast:
- Taking a victory lap on Amazon’s price positioning ...
June 16, 2022
Fast 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 Walton and Anne Mezzenga to debate:
- The significance of Walmart'...
June 6, 2022
Spotlight 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 & Consumer Goods and fellow Top 100 Retail Influencer Shannon Flan...
June 3, 2022
Fast 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 went deep on:
- Dollar General’s self-checkout only pilot
- Brook...
May 27, 2022
Fast 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 and Chris Walton:
- Give their very early take on Amazon's new Am...
May 26, 2022
Ask 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 Vincent Yang back to provide his mid-year report on the state of livest...
May 24, 2022
Spotlight 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 can about the latest fiendish effort being used to defraud consumer...
May 20, 2022
Fast 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 Michael Simoncic join Chris and Anne to discuss:
What to make of ...
May 18, 2022
Ask 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 as simple as just having great person-to-person customer service a...
May 18, 2022
Spotlight 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 Retail Spotlight Series Podcast.
Chris Walton and Anne ...
May 16, 2022
Spotlight 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 and Industry Solutions Cory McElroy to dive deep into the topic of...
May 11, 2022
Fast 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 Walton and Anne Mezzenga:
- Discuss why IKEA's new store investme...
May 6, 2022
Fast 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 opinion on Publix's new nano-fulfillment partnership with Instac...
April 29, 2022
Fast 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 discussing:
- Amazon’s newest suburban store Amazon Go concept, repl...
April 22, 2022
Fast 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 hot take on Andrew Jassy’s first-ever letter to Amazon shareholde...
April 15, 2022
Meta'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 as they debated:
-An Earth Day Resale PR blitz from multiple ret...
April 14, 2022
Ask 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 and however they want it. But, by definition then, doing it right r...