Episodes
Sept. 15, 2020
Spotlight Series | Store Management As An Agile Product with Quorso CEO Julian Mills
Julian Mills, CEO of Quorso, sits down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga for the latest edition of their Omni Talk Spotlight Series, the series that highlights the people, the companies, and the technologies changing the fu...
Sept. 12, 2020
Spotlight Series | The Future of Virtual Try-On with FIT:MATCH CEO Haniff Brown
In their latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series interview, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga chat with FIT:MATCH Founder and CEO Haniff Brown.
Haniff shares his unique background and inspiration for FIT:MATCH, a startup that is maki...
Sept. 11, 2020
Fast Five: Kohl's & Amazon Deepen Their Love For Each Other Plus Canada Carl
In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Carl Boutet (aka Canada Carl) stops by to chat all the week's retail news with Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern.
The gang...
Sept. 8, 2020
Spotlight Series: Standard Cognition CEO Jordan Fisher
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Jordan Fisher, CEO of Standard Cognition, about the future of checkout-free retail.
AI Computer vision-based checkout-free retail is all the rage right now, and Standard Cognition, wi...
Sept. 4, 2020
Fast Five: Grabango Upstages Walmart+, Amazon Fresh, and Charlie Sheen
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, big news shakes the retail industry.
Grabango, in partnership with Giant Eagle, opens a checkout-free and fully retrofitted GetGo convenience store in ...
Sept. 1, 2020
Women's Retail Collective Podcast: CEO Tuft & Needle, EVP DTC Serta/Simmons Shelley Huff
Anne Mezzenga sits down with Shelley Huff, EVP Direct-to-Consumer Serta/Simmons and CEO Tuft & Needle as part of her ongoing Women's Retail Collective Podcast Series.
Shelley's career is unique in that it mirrors how shoppin...
Aug. 28, 2020
Fast Five: Nike Cuts Distribution & Facebook Launches Shops
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, let's just say we are glad we are not in the department store industry.
In the span of the past week, Nike is rumored to be cutting off many big time ...
Aug. 25, 2020
Spotlight Series: Walmart's Tennille Webb on Being First Retailer To Roll-Out Lactation Pods
Walmart's Tennille Webb joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss how she worked with Mamava to make Walmart the first retailer to roll out lactation pods in over 100 U.S. stores.
A journey that began with Tennille see...
Aug. 21, 2020
Fast Five: Who Needs A Vacation When You Can Go To Target Instead?
In this week's edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss what to make of all the earnings announcements this week (including Target, Walm...
Aug. 18, 2020
Spotlight Series: FastSensor EVP Kalon Welch Discusses Active Distance Alert Monitoring
With COVID-19 now ever present, knowing where and in what parts of a store social distancing is working or not working, by way of real-time data, is more important than ever.
Kalon Welch, FastSensor EVP Business Development...
Aug. 14, 2020
Fast Five: Amazon Warehouses In Malls Are Just Plain Great For Retail!
In the latest episode of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern take on all the detractors pooh-poohing the rumors of Amazon placing warehouses in Simon ...
Aug. 11, 2020
Spotlight Series: Numerator VP of Retail Sales Sara Batchelder
In the latest edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Sara Batchelder, VP of Retail and QSR for Numerator. Chris, Anne, and Sara discuss Numerator's unique panel data across both o...
Aug. 7, 2020
Fast Five: Aldi Gets Its Go On, CVS Courts Millennials, & DoorDash Is Now A Retailer
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by FastSensor and Takeoff, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss all the week's top retail news, including DoorDash's new DashMart online store, CVS inking a deal with PayPal and...
July 31, 2020
Fast Five: Amazon the Benevolent Investor or Shady Inside Man?
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss Amazon meeting with startups to then reportedly launch competing products, Sycamore Partners' plan to merge Be...
July 24, 2020
Fast Five: Panera's Coffee Subscription Goes Gangbusters While We Quote Rhett Butler
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma the Intern discuss the explosive growth in Panera's coffee subscription program, Walmart joining forces with Yahoo (yes, you read...
July 17, 2020
Fast Five: There's No Smart in this Cart, Amazon
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern are joined by guest host Ken Pilot to break down all the week's top headlines in retail. This week they talk Ama...
July 15, 2020
Spotlight Series: Visual Search and Experiences with Syte VP Marketing, Gal Fontyn
Omni Talk's Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga turn their podcast spotlight once again on Syte, the intriguing visual AI startup out of Israel. After having Syte founder, Lihi Pinto Fryman, on the show in 2018, this time Chris an...
July 10, 2020
Fast Five: Walmart's Latest Move to Combat Amazon is a Big Plus
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern welcome guest host Ethan Chernofsky of Placer.ai to talk all the latest news in retail, including Walmart+, Amaz...
July 8, 2020
Spotlight Series: Removing the "Store" from BOPIS with Parcel Pending SVP of Retail Kate Reidel
Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga turn their Omni Talk Spotlight on Kate Reidel of Parcel Pending to discuss the evolving landscape of Buy Online, Pickup in store and how locker pickup could soon change the definitions and the a...
July 8, 2020
Shopify Balance with Kaz Nejatian VP & GM of Shopify Financial Services
Omni Talk's Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss Shopify's latest move in the online payment space, Shopify Balance, and where the company also plans to go next. This podcast uses the following third-party services for anal...
July 3, 2020
Fast Five: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Is Lululemon the Fairest of Them All?
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern love Lululemon's acquisition of Mirror, unanimously applaud Brookfield's Fit:Match experiment, are not quite sur...
June 26, 2020
Fast Five: Paying for Gas with Your Voice at 7-Eleven & Off-Price Goes Digital
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern discuss the sweeping changes in the world of social commerce by way of Snapchat and Instagram, how Tanger Factor...
June 19, 2020
Fast Five: Walmart & Shopify Could Be A Match Made In Heaven
In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff, Chris Walton, Anne Mezzenga, and Emma Irwin the Intern discuss Walmart's new partnership with Shopify, Staples using Instacart, a cool startup called Branch, Dick's Sp...