Episodes
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.
Jan. 27, 2022
Spotlight Series | Orchestrating Delivery With Delivery Solutions Arshaad Mirza & Manil Uppal
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 Delivery Solutions Co-Founders Manil Uppal and Arshaad Mirza.
Jan. 26, 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 Blumenthal.
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.
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.
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 to discuss instant delivery.
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 take the “leap” in licensing the soup to nuts operations of their physical stores.
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 to discuss his company’s leadership position in hyperlocal microfulfillment.
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.
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.
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 changes ahead in 2022.
Dec. 13, 2021
Spotlight Series | Building A Retail Media Network With ciValue VP Marketing Pearl Lieberman
In the latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series podcast, 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 them started.
Nov. 18, 2021
Spotlight Series | Inventory Accuracy Got You Down? RFID Is An Easy Way to Cure What Ails You
Omnichannel retailing during the pandemic has placed one hell of a premium on inventory accuracy in stores and throughout the supply chain.
Sept. 20, 2021
Spotlight Series | FRONTdoor Collective CEO & Co-Founder Dan Bourgault (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 FRONTdoor CEO and Co-Founder Dan Bourgault.
Sept. 20, 2021
Spotlight Series | Shipt Chief Business Officer Rina Hurst Discusses New Visa Partnership (Groceryshop Special Report)
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 Visa that gives free Shipt memberships to Visa card holders.
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.
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 Guha, the CMO at Signifyd.
Sept. 16, 2021
Spotlight Series Podcast | 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!
Sept. 16, 2021
Spotlight Series Podcast | More Than A Locker With Cleveron Co-Founder 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 or outside your store. In this interview, Anne Mezzenga and Cleveron Co-Founder Indrek Oolup dive deep into the complete strategy required to set your enterprise or SME retail operation up for success.
Sept. 8, 2021
Spotlight Series Podcast | 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 are requiring brands and retailers to evolve their thinking around talking to their customers.
June 1, 2021
Spotlight Series | First-Rate, First-Party Data Strategies With NetElixir CEO Udayan Bose
As NetElixir CEO and Founder Udayan Bose says, Chief Marketing Officers and e-commerce marketing teams have been running on a treadmill at 10 mph since the pandemic began. And, now just when they don’t need another wrench thrown into things, iOS updates have eliminated third-party cookies, turning up the heat and forcing them to come up with new ways to attract customers.