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Endless Aisle Podcast

The Endless Aisle Podcast takes an inside look at the world of retail from the people living and breathing it every day. You’ll hear from brand leaders, innovators on the tech side, store associates, and more. Endless Aisle is presented by NewStore. 

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Episodes

Peter Clark, Lorna Jane

Peter Clark is the CTO of Lorna Jane, an Australia-based retail brand founded in 1989 by fitness instructor Lorna Jane Clarkson, one of the first pioneers of the activewear category.

Dec 14, 202336 min

Kit Campoy, Author & Voice of the Frontline

Kit is a freelance writer and author of The Retail Leader's Field Guide. She's a voice for the frontline worker, sharing tips and commentary on retail and store operations, leadership, coaching, and more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kit-campoy-you-got-this/

Nov 13, 202342 min

Changemaker Series: Gianfranco, Cuzziol, Natura &Co

Gianfranco works for Natura &Co and is the International CRM and Personalization Lead for Avon. In his career, he's successfully traversed the agency and client-side divide, specializing in CRM, data, and business transformation with a track record for both setting and delivering customer strategy with a focus on the customer, and business objectives.

Sep 13, 20231 hr 1 min

Changemaker Series: Gavin Williams, Creed

Gavin is the director of digital and ecommerce at Creed, a luxury fragrance brand. He has extensive product development and sales & marketing experience across a wide variety of business categories, mostly within the luxury and premium sector. During his career, he's worked with brands like Farfetch, Liberty, Creed, The Wine Society, Laithwaites, Harvey Nichols, and Auto Trader.

Aug 10, 202346 min

Changemaker Series: Chris Rigg, Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports

Chris is the retail director for Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports. In his role, he leads strategy and drives performance in large multi-site operations. The retail landscape is evolving, and he's passionate about delivering real change in the modern retail landscape ensuring customers keep shopping.

Jul 27, 202342 min

Sonal Gandhi, The Lead

Sonal is the Chief Content Officer for The Lead, and the former VP, Content Strategy for Shoptalk. She's also worked on the brand side with eBay and Macy's, and prior to that wass an analyst at Forrester covering the media industry, specializing in paid content, music, radio, and audio devices.

Jun 24, 202334 min

Kris Barton, Avery Dennison

Kris is the Sr. Director, Market Development - RFID at Avery Dennison. Kris is focused on driving RFID market development and strategy through managing relationships with retailers and brands to define, prove out, and implement RFID solutions in their business.

Jun 19, 202335 min

Changemaker Series: Corin Dennison, adidas

Corin is the director of global profit protection. risk for adidas. He was also the global corporate investigations manager at Burberry. Prior to his life in retail, Corin's background was in law enforcement.

Jun 15, 202337 min

Changemaker Series: Kaitlin Gottlieb, UNTUCKit

Kaitlin is currently the Sr. Director of Sales and Clienteling at UNTUCKit. She's held similar roles at REISS, and Bloomingdale's, and is a graduate of Parsons School of Design.

May 18, 202352 min

Greg Cordeiro, EasyMoc

Greg is the owner and founder of Easymoc, a shoe company based in Lewiston, Maine specializing in small-batch, handsewn moccasins. He's also the co-founder of Flatwing, a fly fishing company slinging flies and supplies. Previously, Greg worked for brands like Clark's, Huckberry, Timberland, Puma, and more.

May 08, 202351 min

Changemaker Series: Mark Engebretson, Faherty

Mark is the global operations lead at Faherty Brand. Previously, Mark has held a variety of retail operations roles at Vince, Ralph Lauren, Victoria's Secret, and more.

Apr 04, 202345 min

Changemakers Series: Niall Edwards, LEGO

Niall is the VP, Technology at the LEGO Group. He also sits on the Advisory Board for the MACH Alliance. Prior to LEGO, he worked at ACCO Brands, Toys-R-Us UK, and Uniqlo.

Mar 15, 202350 minSeason 3Ep. 3

Jeena Sharma, Retail Brew

Jeena Sharma covers retail and consumer trends at Retail Brew. She was previously the beauty editor at Paper Magazine and a fashion and beauty writer at Nylon. This Endless Aisle episode was co-hosted with Ian Scott, Retail Rethink Top 100 Influencer, and Consultant.

Feb 23, 20231 hr 4 minSeason 2Ep. 2

Changemaker Series: Ian Scott, Retail Rethink Top 100 Influencer

Ian Scott is a Retail Rethink Top 100 influencer and an independent retail consultant, with over 20 years of experience within the retail display sector. His work has included the design and implementation of retail stores and displays, store research and behavioral psychology, and global innovation and trends.

Feb 01, 202352 minSeason 3Ep. 1

Thomas Mulreid, Orium

Thomas Mulreid is the head of sales for Orium (formerly MyPlanet), North America's leading composable commerce consultancy & systems integrator. He is an expert and leading voice on Composable Commerce, Headless Commerce and Data Strategies on LinkedIn.

Dec 14, 202235 minSeason 2Ep. 11

Polly Wong, Belardi Wong

Polly Wong is the president of Belardi Wong, a leading direct marketing firm, working with more than 300 retailers and best-in-class brands. Previously, she held leadership roles at Williams-Sonoma, RedEnvelope, Eddie Bauer, and more.

Nov 17, 202241 minSeason 2Ep. 10

Liza Amlani, Retail Strategy Group

Liza Amlani is the principal and founder of Retail Strategy Group. She is the go-to expert in merchandising, product creation, and accelerating speed to market and is one of RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Influencers of 2022. With over 20 years of retail insider experience, we help companies in the retail space dramatically improve profitability and increase organizational effectiveness. (https://www.themerchantlife.com/)

Nov 08, 202233 minSeason 2Ep. 9

Jennifer Hileman, Orium

Jennifer is the senior manager, retail platform strategy & commercialization at Orium. Formerly known as MyPlanet, Orium is North America's leading composable commerce consultancy & systems integrator. She is also a strategic advisor for Tomorrow Retail Consulting. Additionally, in her career, she spent time working in various capacities for retail brands like Hudson's Bay Company, Target, Walmart, Mango, and more.

Oct 27, 202243 minSeason 2Ep. 9

2023 OLR | Amanda McLaughlin, NewStore

Amanda McLaughlin is the Sr. Manager, Content Marketing at NewStore. She led the launch of the 2023 Omnichannel Leadership Report, now in its eighth edition. The report analyzed over 300 brands and their omnichannel shopping experiences across mobile, online, and in-store. https://www.newstore.com/resource/2023-omnichannel-leadership-report/

Oct 19, 202234 minSeason 2Ep. 8

Tony Drockton, Hammitt

Tony is the founder and Chief Cheerleader at Hammitt (https://www.hammitt.com/). After earning his MBA, Tony spent over a decade managing successful businesses in construction, real estate, and home finance sectors. In search of a venture that celebrated his creative passions, Tony took the reins at Hammitt in 2008, overseeing its transformation from a best-kept hometown secret to a digital and retail phenomenon. Tony is a philanthropist, speaker, mentor, and lifelong entrepreneur, but mostly, h...

Jul 19, 202238 minSeason 2Ep. 7

Andy O'Dell, Clutch

Andy is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Clutch (https://www.clutch.com/). He's responsible for product vision, corporate strategy, and the overall commercialization of our Consumer Management platform, as well as, its consumer-facing mobile wallet application "CLUTCH Shopping" (iOS & Android).

Mar 25, 202230 minSeason 2Ep. 6

Thijs van Schadewijk, NewStore, Consumer App

Thijs is the General Manager, Consumer Apps at NewStore. Previously, he is the founder of Touchwonders, and Highstreet Mobile. At Touchwonders, he built best-in-class apps for tablets and smartphones with the belief that simple, smart and delightful software can make life better. He worked with companies like ING, Rabobank, Volkwagen, Audio, Zoover, and many more. In 2014 he launched Highstreet Mobile: a SaaS mobile retail platform for fashion and lifestyle brands. At Highstreet the mission was ...

Mar 17, 202250 minSeason 2Ep. 5

August Kuhling, NewStore

August Kuhling is an Operations professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in a variety of high-level roles. August enjoys a challenge and has built a diverse body of experience that spans E-commerce operations, omnichannel retail, large-scale fulfillment/logistics, and high-level brick and mortar retail leadership. In each of these neighboring industries, August has seen success, growth as well as regular increases in scope and responsibility. There are very few leaders with a bo...

Mar 09, 202233 minSeason 2Ep. 4

Michelle Alter, NewStore

Michelle is a retail success manager at NewStore. Passionate, customer-focused, and collaborative retail leader she previously held management positions at Apple and Target.

Dec 03, 202132 minSeason 2Ep. 3

Ron Thurston, Take Pride Today

As a retail leadership executive, board member, and Amazon best-selling author, Ron Thurston loves retail. And he's proud of it. Ron has led the retail teams for some of America's most prominent brands, inspired thousands of store employees, and traveled relentlessly across the country to sit and listen to what they have to say. Ron was also recognized as one of the Top 100 Retail Influencers of 2021 by RethinkRetail and is the Founder of TAKE PRIDE TODAY™, his platform for consulting, speaking,...

Nov 16, 202133 minSeason 2Ep. 2

2022 OLR | Amanda McLaughlin, NewStore

Amanda McLaughlin is the Sr. Manager, Content Marketing at NewStore. She led the launch of the 2022 Omnichannel Leadership Report, now in its sixth edition. The report analyzed over 250 brands and 50 omnichannel capabilities. www.newstore.com/resource/2022-omnichannel-leadership-report/

Nov 10, 202135 minSeason 2Ep. 1

Dustin Jones, Unified Commerce Group

Dustin Jones is a retail leader and recognized omnichannel authority with expertise in directing global consumer-centric brand and retail strategies to drive the growth of major retail businesses, brands, and partners. He's currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Unified Commerce Group, a company whose purpose is to acquire and operate the next generation of incredible Global Retail Brands. Unified Commerce Group targets brands who are driven by purpose, have strong digital characteristics and have ...

Jul 20, 202141 min

Jeremy Levine, The Maze Group

Jeremy is a partner at The Maze Group. He is an accomplished omnichannel executive with more than 20 years of experience in digital and ecommerce balancing the art and science of branded commerce. He previously has held roles at The Vitamin Shoppe, Global Brands Group, Michael Kors, VF Corp, and more.

Jul 07, 202147 min
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