Episodes

Sept. 18, 2022

Groceryshop Spotlight | Grocery Tech Trends With Microsoft’s Lisa Griego & Ricardo Belmar

Microsoft’s Lisa Griego and Ricardo Belmar join Chris and Anne to kickoff Omni Talk Retail’s special Groceryshop Spotlight Podcast Series and to highlight the key trends they see shaping grocery over the next year.
Sept. 18, 2022

Groceryshop Spotlight | Why Clean Data Is Essential For Every Retail Media Network With Amperity

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Amperity’s Head of Product Solutions Matt Hallett and Microsoft’s Sr. Director of Business Strategy for Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods Mike Edmonds join Chris and Anne to discuss how technology can help to clean every grocer’s messy consumer data and thereby bring even more power to one’s retail media network.
Sept. 18, 2022

Groceryshop Spotlight | Improving Inventory Visibility At The Front Of The Funnel With Blue Yonder

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Blue Yonder’s Senior Director of Solutions Strategy Erin Halka and Microsoft’s Director of Retail and Consumer Goods Paula Beckel join Chris and Anne to discuss the next generation order management capabilities required to succeed in this new era of omnichannel retailing.
Sept. 18, 2022

Groceryshop Spotlight | Next Generation CPG Pricing At Scale With Flintfox

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Flintfox’s Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer Cath Brands and Microsoft’s Director of Worldwide Retail and Consumer Goods Partner Strategy Sue McMahon join Chris and Anne to discuss the massive technological opportunity that exists for CPGs to scale their pricing execution and negotiations.
Sept. 18, 2022

Groceryshop Spotlight | Bringing A Retail Media Network To Life In Store With Cooler Screens

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Cooler Screens Chief Revenue Officer Lindell Bennett and Microsoft’s Director of Industry Solutions for Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Robin Laylin join Chris and Anne to discuss how every grocer’s cooler and freezer doors can be turned into a bona fide weapon within one’s retail media network.
Sept. 13, 2022

Spotlight Series | The Latest Data On Instacart With 1010data’s Frank Riva

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, 1010data’s VP of Marketing Frank Riva gives Chris and Anne a sneak peek into their soon-to-be-released report on Instacart’s performance for the first half of 2022 and the data will blow your mind!
Sept. 12, 2022

2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Colin Yankee Chief Supply Chain Officer Tractor Supply Company

In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Tractor Supply Company EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer Colin Yankee to discuss how his company continues to deliver great omnichannel results and financial returns that far outpace its peers.
Sept. 12, 2022

2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Dilip Kumar VP Amazon Web Services Applications

In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s current VP of Amazon Web Services Applications and the former VP of Amazon Physical Retail and Technology, to discuss how Just Walk Out technology came to be and where it is going next.
Sept. 12, 2022

Spotlight Series | Supercharging A Retail Media Network With accelerate360 CDO Liz Roche

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, accelerate360’s Chief Data Officer Liz Roche joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss the keys to differentiating content across a Retail Media Network.
Sept. 8, 2022

Spotlight 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 ins and outs of installing a fully functional parcel robot for package pickup at one of Zara’s busiest locations — it’s new flagship store in Madrid.
Sept. 6, 2022

OmniStars Kickoff Podcast With Quorso CEO Julian Mills

Quorso CEO Julian Mills joins Chris and Anne to kickoff this year’s OmniStars Spotlight Podcast Series.
Sept. 6, 2022

2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Stefanie Kruse Walgreens VP Digital Commerce & Omnichannel

In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Walgreens VP of Digital Commerce and Omnichannel Stefanie Kruse to discuss what it takes to help a pharmacy retailer like Walgreens continue to meet rising consumer expectations around service.
Sept. 6, 2022

2022 OmniStars Spotlight | Allison Peterson Best Buy EVP & Chief Customer Officer

In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with Quorso, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Best Buy’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer Allison Peterson to discuss what her role entails and how she aims to keep Best Buy on the cutting edge of omnichannel retailing.
Sept. 2, 2022

Spotlight 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 VP Sales Consultancy, Bill Stenger, live from Home Delivery World 2022.
July 12, 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?
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 Flanagan.
May 23, 2022

Spotlight Series | Battling Account Takeover Fraud With Signifyd CMO Indy Guha

In the latest edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight 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 consumers, aka Account Takeover (or ATO, if you are in the know).
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 what it takes to scale computer vision implementations across thousands of store locations.
March 29, 2022

Spotlight 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 Global Partnerships, Shanna Prevé, to dive deep into the DoorDash headlines the retail world has been buzzing about for the past year including:
March 27, 2022

Spotlight 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, gleaned from millions upon millions of scans of people’s feet.
March 27, 2022

Spotlight 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.
March 26, 2022

Spotlight 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.
March 14, 2022

Spotlight 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.