Episodes

Ask An Expert | Revisiting The Case For Resale With Recurate VP Brand Success Cynthia Power
Oct. 18, 2021

Ask An Expert | Revisiting The Case For Resale With Recurate VP Brand Success Cynthia Power

"How do you sell snowflakes?" - Andy Reuben CEO of TroveIn this case, snowflakes = resale product, and to figure out the answer to that question we had to call in an expert in the circular economy and resale.In the latest...
Fast Five | If Macys.com Gets Overvalued By An Irrational Investor, Does It Make A Noise?
Oct. 15, 2021

Fast Five | If Macys.com Gets Overvalued By An Irrational Investor, Does It Make A Noise?

This week's Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, was a cornucopia of headline delights, a veritable hodgepodge of topics on everything from outright lunacy to some downrig...
Ask An Expert | How To Save The Drowning Store Employee with Quorso CEO Julian Mills
Oct. 14, 2021

Ask An Expert | How To Save The Drowning Store Employee with Quorso CEO Julian Mills

Your store teams shouldn't be spending time on anything that isn't driving sales or reducing costs.But too much of their day is wasted on less impactful actions and convoluted processes, which oftentimes results in them fee...
Ask An Expert | Making The Mall Of America Shoppable Online With Jesse Michael & Grant Buntje
Oct. 8, 2021

Ask An Expert | Making The Mall Of America Shoppable Online With Jesse Michael & Grant Buntje

Jesse Michael, Managing Director at Adeptmind, returns to the Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series with Mall of America's VP Marketing Grant Buntje to discuss all that it takes to make the Mall of America shoppable online.When Om...
Fast Five | Amazon Wins Black Friday Again With New Gift Giving Feature
Oct. 8, 2021

Fast Five | Amazon Wins Black Friday Again With New Gift Giving Feature

In today's Fast Five Video, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga:- Question the real motives behind Target's holiday price adjustment promise.- Love, love, ...
Fast Five | $1,000 for Whole Foods Delivery? Not A Chance!
Oct. 1, 2021

Fast Five | $1,000 for Whole Foods Delivery? Not A Chance!

In this week's Omni Talk Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga:- Do the math on what a $10 delivery fee at Whole Foods means annually (the number will ...
Fast Five | Groceryshop Highlights Plus Amazon Dressing Rooms & Walmart Health Labeling
Sept. 24, 2021

Fast Five | Groceryshop Highlights Plus Amazon Dressing Rooms & Walmart Health Labeling

In today's Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga:- Recap their biggest lessons learned from Groceryshop through the lens of the explosion of recent ann...
Spotlight Series | FRONTdoor Collective CEO & Co-Founder Dan Bourgault
Sept. 20, 2021

Spotlight Series | FRONTdoor Collective CEO & Co-Founder Dan Bourgault

In this special Groceryshop edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron and UntieNots, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down to chat with FRONTdoor CEO and Co-Founder Dan Bourgault.When Chris and Anne...
Spotlight Series | Shipt Chief Business Officer Rina Hurst Discusses New Visa Partnership
Sept. 20, 2021

Spotlight Series | Shipt Chief Business Officer Rina Hurst Discusses New Visa Partnership

In this special Groceryshop edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron and UntieNots, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga interview Shipt Chief Business Officer Rina Hurst about Shipt's new partnership with V...
Spotlight Series | Signifyd CMO Indy Guha (Groceryshop Special Report)
Sept. 19, 2021

Spotlight Series | Signifyd CMO Indy Guha (Groceryshop Special Report)

In this special Groceryshop edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron and UntieNots, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down to chat with one of Omni Talk's favorite guests, the always mellifluous Indy ...
Spotlight Series | Cooler Screens CEO Arsen Avakian (Groceryshop Special Report)
Sept. 19, 2021

Spotlight Series | Cooler Screens CEO Arsen Avakian (Groceryshop Special Report)

In this special Groceryshop edition of our Omni Talk Spotlight Series, sponsored by Cleveron and UntieNots, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down to chat with Cooler Screens Founder and CEO Arsen Avakian.Cooler screens, a...
Fast Five | Amazon And The War On Wages
Sept. 16, 2021

Fast Five | Amazon And The War On Wages

In today's Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, A&M's David Ritter and Kristin Kohler Burrows join Chris and Anne to debate:- What Amazon's latest moves to increase wages and offer ...
Spotlight Series | More Than A Locker With Cleveron CEO Indrek Oolup
Sept. 16, 2021

Spotlight Series | More Than A Locker With Cleveron CEO Indrek Oolup

It’s been a trend throughout the pandemic, but BOPIS, Click-and-Collect, whatever you’d like to call it, is here to stay. It’s time to get a solid solution, and unfortunately, it’s not as simple as setting up lockers inside o...
Spotlight Series | UntieNots Co-Founders Zyed Jamoussi & Cédric Chéreau
Sept. 16, 2021

Spotlight Series | UntieNots Co-Founders Zyed Jamoussi & Cédric Chéreau

Quit sending all your customers all the same promotions, and while you’re at it, make it fun!In this live recording of the Omni Talk Spotlight Series, Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton sit down with UntieNots co-founders, Zyed...
Fast Five | Go Go Amazon Go In Whole Foods
Sept. 9, 2021

Fast Five | Go Go Amazon Go In Whole Foods

In today's Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Chris and Anne:- Debate the significance and many angles to consider in the momentous announcement by Amazon to put its Just Walk Out...
Spotlight Series | The Secret To Post-Pandemic Digital Marketing: Customer First, Not Channel
Sept. 9, 2021

Spotlight Series | The Secret To Post-Pandemic Digital Marketing: Customer First, Not Channel

There have been a lot of shifts happening as a result of the pandemic: people have new shopping behaviors, they’re discovering product differently, engaging with retailers in new places, on new channels, and in new ways that ...
Fast Five | An Amazon Reaffirmation, Ikea Resale, and the Allbirds IPO
Sept. 3, 2021

Fast Five | An Amazon Reaffirmation, Ikea Resale, and the Allbirds IPO

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer & Retail Group and Takeoff, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga:- Praise Amazon for its Affirm partnership and once again setting the table years ah...
Ask An Expert | The Impact Of Retail Fraud w/Signifyd SVP Operations & Client Development Bennett
Sept. 2, 2021

Ask An Expert | The Impact Of Retail Fraud w/Signifyd SVP Operations & Client Development Bennett

In the latest Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Signifyd SVP of Operations and Client Development, Bennett, in a conversation you may need to hear for yourself to believe. Bennett ...
Fast Five | Chris Returns To Rant About Amazon, Walmart, and Toys R Us
Aug. 26, 2021

Fast Five | Chris Returns To Rant About Amazon, Walmart, and Toys R Us

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer & Retail Group and Takeoff, Chris Walton rejoins Anne Mezzenga on the show after a long medical absence to discuss:– Amazon's move into departm...
Special Report | Retail's Big Short With Shlomo Chopp Of Case Equity Partners & RetailOS
Aug. 25, 2021

Special Report | Retail's Big Short With Shlomo Chopp Of Case Equity Partners & RetailOS

In this Omni Talk Special Report Anne Mezzenga and Shlomo Chopp Managing Partner of Case Equity Partners & Founder of RetailOS, dive into a conversation about the state of malls and retail real estate and why the current mode...
Women's Retail Collective Podcast | Forrester VP & Principal Analyst Sucharita Kodali
Aug. 24, 2021

Women's Retail Collective Podcast | Forrester VP & Principal Analyst Sucharita Kodali

In the latest Women's Retail Collective Podcast brought to you by Parcel Pending by Quadient, host Anne Mezzenga sits down with Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Sucharita Kodali.This is a special one, in particular, becau...
Fast Five | Can’t Stop Won’t Stop — Target, Walmart, And Ikea Take Retail To 11
Aug. 20, 2021

Fast Five | Can’t Stop Won’t Stop — Target, Walmart, And Ikea Take Retail To 11

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer & Retail Group Anne Mezzenga and guest hosts Mohit Mohal and Hemant Kalbag of the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer & Retail Group discuss:...
Fast Five | Sweaty Betty, Square, And A Better Butter Beer
Aug. 6, 2021

Fast Five | Sweaty Betty, Square, And A Better Butter Beer

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Fast Five, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer & Retail Group Anne Mezzenga and guest host James Cook Americas Director of Retail Research for JLL and host of the podcast Where We ...
Ask An Expert | Lowes Foods E-Commerce VP Chad Petersen
Aug. 3, 2021

Ask An Expert | Lowes Foods E-Commerce VP Chad Petersen

In the latest Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series Anne Mezzenga sits down with Lowes Foods E-commerce VP Chad Petersen to hear about the strategy they're putting together for the next year in grocery. Lowes Foods is no stranger ...