“It can be livestream first, but the livestream has to have a container to live in.” Jason Holland, President and Chief Business Officer explains to Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga that while #livestreaming is the hottest trend since sliced bread, #retailers and #brands have to focus on building the foundation…
In our latest #NRF2022 Spotlight Series Interview Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga ask Firework President and Chief Business Officer Jason Holland the million-dollar question: "There’s a lot of hype around #livestreaming, would you say that it’s overhyped, underhyped, or appropriately hyped?” See what Jason had to say in this clip,…
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 a hundred or so products to college students back in 2013, today they're delivering over 4,000…
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…
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 retailers come to the Firework team, it's because they're interested in replicating the on-site live…
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 of late, launching an automated microfulfillment center with Jewel-Osco in Chicago this past December.…
What's pushing your employees' buttons? Buttons. Too many of them. In our latest #SpotlightSeries Anne Mezzenga sits down with Scandit Co-Founder and CTO Christian Floerkemeier to explain why #retailers they're working with have had success ditching the archaic, multi-button scanning guns and replacing them with a mobile device and apps…
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 Best Buy lockers (in this video youtu.be/O7KLj7sUhIU), Chris Walton and…
How much money are you losing because your shelf pricing is inaccurate? It's more than you think. In the latest #SpotlightSeries Anne Mezzenga is joined by Scandit Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier to talk about how simply their #scanning platform can put money back in #retailer pockets. For the full episode with…
With everything that #retailers have on their plates heading into 2022, why should they prioritize #retailmedianetworks? ciValue's Pearl Lieberman blows Anne Mezzenga away with her response in this clip from the latest Spotlight Series. For the full interview with Pearl, head here: https://omnitalk.blog/2021/12/13/spotlight-series-building-a-retail-media-network-with-civalue-vp-of-marketing-pearl-lieberman/ #retailmedianetwork #RMN #retail #retailadvertising #CPG #brands #brandmarketing…
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. In our latest Spotlight Series Omni Talk's…
"#Retailmedia is a matter of doing all the things that were done at some point but doing it at scale and doing it at speed for the purpose of reducing friction." As ciValue's Pearl Lieberman points out in this clip, you can't operate your #media networks the same way you…
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 them started. In this episode, Pearl and Anne discuss: - How…
How much of your #inventory is hiding beneath the surface? #retailers keep stock on hand to prevent overselling, but this lack of true #inventoryvisibility ends up costing them more than a disappointed customer. Kris Barton of Avery Dennison explains his Iceberg Effect #inventory analogy to Chris Walton in the latest…
If, within hours, you could have 98% #inventoryaccuracy #blackfriday week, wouldn't you? In this clip from the latest Omni Talk Spotlight Series with Chris Walton, Detego's Umesh Cooduvalli, and Avery Dennison's Kris Barton we find out how the retail partners of #detego and #averydennison are doing just that. For the…
2022 is right around the corner, so who better than Microsoft to tell us all on what retail technology trends they would place their bets in the upcoming year! So Omni Talk is pleased to announce that Microsoft’s very own Chris Dieringer and Ricardo Belmar have joined Chris Walton and…
Omnichannel retailing during the pandemic has placed one hell of a premium on inventory accuracy in your stores and throughout your supply chains. But so much of the legacy store level and DC level infrastructure is not equipped to give us the data and level of accuracy that we need…
Omni Talk's Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga get a live store demonstration of Tesco's new checkout-free store in the High Holborn neighborhood of London directly from the man responsible for the technology that powers the experience, Trigo Co-Founder and CEO Michael Gabay. With Michael serving as their tour guide from…
In our latest #askanexpert series, Anne Mezzenga is joined by Recurate VP Cynthia Power where they discuss the "Multi-life value of a product." #Retailers, your products aren't being sold to one individual anymore. They may have two or three owners over their lifetime. How are you capturing that share of…
"People are buying your product used whether or not they're buying it from you." Recurate VP Cynthia Power joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton in the latest #askanexpert series to explain why #brands and #retailers need to have a strategy for #resale now. Get the full interview with Cynthia Power…
In our latest #AskAnExpert series Chris Walton asks Quorso CEO, Julian Mills, to define an "agile store." Julian explains in this clip how retailers are prioritizing tasks in real-time that simultaneously meet the goals of the business and the satisfaction of the #store #associate. For the full interview with Julian,…
Are your #store teams drowning? Based on the record-breaking attendance at our #linkedin Live #askandexpert series with Quorso CEO Julian Mills last week, it seems they are. If you missed that event, catch this clip where Julian Mills explains how they are helping #retailers solve for this by showing their…
"How do you sell snowflakes?" - Andy Reuben CEO of Trove In 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 Ask An Expert series, Omni Talk's Anne…
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 feeling even more overwhelmed and inefficient. Omni Talk Expert Quorso CEO Julian Mills once…