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.
Sep 06, 2022•6 min
Retail Technology Spotlight Series
Omni Talk Retail Hosts Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with the people and the companies building technology that will shape the future of retail.
Episodes
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.
Sep 06, 2022•27 min
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.
Sep 06, 2022•25 min
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.
Sep 02, 2022•22 min
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?
Jul 12, 2022•33 min
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.
Jun 06, 2022•36 min
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 23, 2022•33 min
Spotlight Series | Turning Everything From Phones To Floor Scrubbers Into Smart Retail Devices
What devices in your store could be working harder for you?
May 18, 2022•35 min
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.
May 16, 2022•33 min
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:
Mar 29, 2022•20 min
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.
Mar 27, 2022•36 min
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.
Mar 27, 2022•28 min
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.
Mar 26, 2022•23 min
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.
Mar 14, 2022•32 min
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 27, 2022•15 min
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•12 min
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 26, 2022•22 min
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 25, 2022•30 min
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 17, 2022•35 min
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.
Jan 16, 2022•29 min
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•33 min
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•27 min
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 20, 2021•20 min
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 16, 2021•28 min
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.
Dec 13, 2021•24 min
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.
Nov 18, 2021•39 min
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.
Sep 20, 2021•16 min
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.
Sep 20, 2021•21 min
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.
Sep 19, 2021•34 min
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.
Sep 19, 2021•37 min