Episodes
Jan. 27, 2022
Spotlight Series | Digital's Impact On Shipping With ECU Worldwide CTO Philip Blumenthal
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 bring you ECU Worldwide Chief Transformation Officer Philip Blume...
Jan. 26, 2022
Spotlight Series | Using Data To Stay Ahead Of Supply Chain Trends With 1010data CEO Inna Kuznetsova
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 bring you 1010data CEO Inna Kuznetsova.
Chris Walton and Anne Me...
Jan. 25, 2022
Spotlight Series | The Consumer Psychology of Ultra Fast Delivery with Buyk CEO James Walker
In our first podcast to kickoff the Manifest Conference, brought to you in association with 1010data, we are pleased to bring you Buyk CEO James Walker.
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with James to get his take on w...
Jan. 24, 2022
AI Spotlight | The Future Of Quick Serve Restaurants With Vistry.AI CEO Atif Kureishy
As part of their Spotlight AI Series from the NVIDIA and Lenovo NRF Innovation Lab, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sat down with Vistry.AI Founder and CEO, Atif Kureishy, to learn how his company is leveraging Ai to improve t...
Jan. 24, 2022
AI Spotlight | Why Computer Vision Beats Customer Surveys Every Time With Deep North's Tracy Benaman
As part of their Spotlight AI Series from the NVIDIA and Lenovo NRF Innovation Lab, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sat down with Deep North VP of Retail Sales, Tracy Benaman, to learn how her company leverages computer vision...
Jan. 21, 2022
AI Spotlight | The Early Puts & Takes Of Checkout-Free Retail With Compass Digital Labs CTO Scott Wu
In what had to be one of our favorite podcasts on AI from the NRF Innovation Lab, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sat down with Compass Digital Labs CTO, Scott Wu, to learn how his massive company, the Compass Group, is lookin...
Jan. 21, 2022
AI Spotlight | Enhancing Self-Checkout With Kroger's Tom Arigi & Everseen's Alex Siskos
AI is helping retailers improve business agility in these unprecedented times.
Using store analytics, retailers can understand consumer behavior and optimize processes for better shopping experiences and faster, contactless...
Jan. 21, 2022
AI Spotlight | Anand Muralidaran of NVIDIA and Andi Huels of Lenovo
In the first of our special weeklong Spotlight Series highlighting AI in retail, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interviewed Anand Muralidaran of NVIDIA and Andi Huels of Lenovo live from the NRF Innovation Lab.
Anand is NVID...
Jan. 21, 2022
Ask An Expert | Combatting Online Return Fraud With Signifyd SVP Bennett
How to fight online return fraud when all the players don't play by the same rules is a growing problem in retail.
And nowhere was this more evident than this past holiday season when the overall rate of e-commerce returns i...
Jan. 21, 2022
Fast Five | Aldi Turns Up The Heat On The Race To Checkout-Free Retail
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Microsoft, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Takeoff, and Sezzle, David Ritter and Jonathan Sharp of A&M join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga as they discuss:
- Walmart's porch ...
Jan. 17, 2022
Spotlight Series | Instant Delivery With Gopuff Co-CEO & Co-Founder Rafael Ilishayev
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron, Firework, and Scandit, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Gopuff Co-CEO and Co-Founder Rafael Ilishayev.
Gopuff started delivering ...
Jan. 16, 2022
Spotlight Series | Licensing Physical Store Operations With Leap CEO & Co-Founder Jared Golden
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Leap Co-founder and CEO Jared Golden to talk about how his company's proprietary platform helps retailers and brands tak...
Jan. 16, 2022
Spotlight Series | Leading The Way In Grocery Microfulfillment With Takeoff CEO Max Pedró
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron, Firework, and Scandit, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Takeoff CEO and Co-Founder Max Pedró.
Takeoff has been making headlines o...
Jan. 16, 2022
Spotlight Series | Future Of Shoppable Content with Firework President & CBO Jason Holland
In a special NRF edition of The Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron, Firework, and Scandit, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Firework President & Chief Business Officer Jason Holland.
When many reta...
Jan. 14, 2022
Fast Five | There's Nothing Boring About Meta & Shopify's Recent Board Appointments
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 hotly debate even more topics than normal, including:
- Who had the cooler boar...
Jan. 13, 2022
Ask An Expert | Quorso CEO Julian Mills On Giving District Managers The Tools They Need To Succeed
Retail store employees are drowning in workload like never before with very few tools to help them survive.
And, as a result, so much of their day is wasted on less impactful actions and convoluted processes that oftentimes ...
Jan. 7, 2022
Fast Five | Walmart's Smelly Fridge Deliveries, AI Salads, & Bed Bath's Dying Registry Business
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 moldy cheese isn't the only thing that smells in Walmart's in-ho...
Dec. 20, 2021
Women's Retail Collective Podcast | Fanatics Chief Strategic Retail Officer Gina De Caro Sprenger
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Women's Retail Collective Podcast, Anne Mezzenga sits down with Fanatics Chief Strategic Retail Officer Gina De Caro Sprenger.
Gina is like no other woman in retail we've interviewed. S...
Dec. 20, 2021
Spotlight Series | Best Buy's 24/7 Pickup Lockers With Luxer One President Josh Middlebrooks
Yes, you read that right. Best Buy recently cut a hole in the front of one of its stores and installed lockers to enable a 24/7 pickup experience for their customers.
And that's just the beginning.
After trialing the new Be...
Dec. 17, 2021
Fast Five | 2021 Omni Talk Retail Awards
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, our good friends Kristin Kohler Burrows and David Ritter stop by to help Chris and Anne hand out this year’s Omni Talk 2021 Retail ...
Dec. 16, 2021
Spotlight Series | Scandit CTO & Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier
When people hear the word “scanning,” some immediately think of a scanner in the checkout lane or a barcode reader in an app, but there are many use cases for scanning technology, especially as retailers gear up for the chang...
Dec. 13, 2021
Spotlight Series | Building A Retail Media Network With ciValue VP of Marketing Pearl Lieberman
In the latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Anne Mezzenga sits down with ciValue VP of Marketing Pearl Lieberman to talk about Retail Media Networks and why many retailers and brands already have all the data they need to get t...
Dec. 10, 2021
Fast Five | Kohl's Spinoffs, DoorDash In An Instant, & Why Wayfair Is Too Smart For Its Own Good
In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga:
- Examine Jewel-Osco's new microfulfillment partnership with Takeoff.
- Question the ...
Dec. 6, 2021
Ask An Expert | The Smash And Grab Theft Retailers Don't See With Signifyd SVP Bennett
“Smash and Grab” robberies at several retailers stole the headlines during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but the real concern for retailers should be the significant increase in digital “smash and grabs” as fraud spikes with...