The Retail Podcast

Retail reinvents itself daily. The Retail Podcast arms founders, operators, and retail technologists with battle-tested tactics to outpace change. Each week candid conversations with store chiefs, DTC disruptors, and tech visionaries reveal how to turn AI, data, and culture into margin and loyalty. No jargon just hard numbers, honest lessons, and plays you can run before next Monday. Press play; lead the future of commerce.

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Luxury Activewear and Beyond with Marion Rabat Founder of Ernest Leoty Luxury Activewear and Beyond

This months Vanity Fair has commented that Marion Rabat is “the queen of chic Parisian activewear”, and we get to have an incredibly open and honest conversation with Marion the incredibly kind and gifted Founder of Ernest Leoty. However more importantly we celebrate how Ernest Leoty is connecting physical to digital during a time where retail is met with a historical challenge. Ernest Leoty is for many the go-to luxury lifestyle brand across various categories providing elegant athleisure wear,...

Nov 04, 2020•29 min•Ep. 13

Retail Choreography Imogen Wethered Co Founder & CEO Qudini

Technology & Retail is still unfortunately male-dominated, this needs to change and female designers, creators, founders, and leaders great work needs to be celebrated. In our second episode as part of our mini-season focusing on Female Leaders in Retail, we have the great pleasure of speaking to CEO & Cofounder Imogen Wethered who has taken her business Qudini from incubation to serving the globes leading retailers. https://www.qudini.com/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYe3poq...

Oct 25, 2020•25 min•Ep. 12

The Future of Fashion Interaction with Lexi Willetts Co-Founder of Little Black Door

" Never be afraid that you don’t know something" - Lexi Willetts Fashion, Technology & Retail is unfortunately still male-dominated, for example, only 40% of womenswear designers are female . This needs to change and female designers, creators, founders, and leaders great work needs to be celebrated. We kick off our new mini-season with a focus on Female Leaders in Retail and it was an absolute great pleasure to start the season with a look at the world of High-Fashion, Luxury, and some of t...

Sep 30, 2020•29 min•Ep. 11

Future of Digital Commerce - Alistair Crane CEO of Hero

The future of retail will no longer be flat, the customer will journey never just start in the store but can terminate there, store associates are experts and are the representation of the brand online, 4 x4 grid selling of ecommerce platforms are dead. The Future of retail is bright and thanks to business leaders like Alistair Crane , retail will bounce back. In our last episode before the summer break, we get to talk with one of retails shining lights and saviours during the pandemic, enabling...

Jul 27, 2020•35 min•Ep. 10

Future of Retail with Kate Machtiger Design Director | NEW INC | 30 Under 30

In this episode, I have the great pleasure of digesting the HBR article ( What Will the Retail Experience of the Future Look Like? ) with Kate Machtiger the author, which was an absolute pleasure. Sensory perceptions and feelings are a part of the retail experience and unfortunately we have to many flat one dimensional experiences (+ conversations) and it is only through diversity of thought, that we can create true customer journeys that challenge and bring delight to customers, for me design i...

Jul 20, 2020•41 min•Ep. 9

Friction Vs Reward with CEO of Uncrowd & Author Richard Hammond

Richard has been in the retail industry for approximately 35 years, from stores to authoring the best-selling retail manual Smart Retail, which is currently in its 4th edition and is available in 22 languages. In 2018, Richard and his co-founder embarked on building the next generation of customer analytics through their start-up Uncrowd.uk and is also an advisor to NearSreet. In this episode we cover the below and much more: NPS Vs Analytics New Normal or Not? Cost Vs Choice Vs Effort Personas ...

Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 8

Retail Trends with Head of Trends, Cate Trotter at Insider Trends

Our first video and audio podcast! This is a jammed pack episode 1 hour in length focused on the Future of Retail, covering: The New Normal Retail Winners during COVID lockdown Naked Wines https://www.nakedwines.com/ Digital Experiences Near Street https://near.st/ Hello Alfred https://www.helloalfred.com/ Hello Alfred & Unilever, creating a new Third or Fourth Space in retail. Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPBQCYf0ueM Insider Trends: https://www.insider-trends.com/ #RETAIL htt...

Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 7

JD Sports CIO Barry Loftus

A very special edition of the retail podcast, from one of the UK´s hottest retail brands and third largest FTSE 100 retailer with a market capital of 5.53b GBP. JD Sports has grown from its Northern roots (Bury to be precise), to becoming a global leading sports fashion or athleisure business with stores across Europe, Asia, and now the US thanks to its acquisition of Indianapolis Head Quartered retailer Finish Line in 2018 for $558M. #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/...

May 26, 2020•18 min•Ep. 7

Post COVID-19 A New Normal Part 1 of 3 (5 Minute Digest)

What is this New Normal in Retail, who does it apply to. What should you be building as the waves of this pandemic sweeps through the economy, do you have the right partners in place for your supply chain or business, will you be able to tap into the new normal and what could be possible areas of focus for growth? #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

Apr 29, 2020•4 min•Ep. 6

Future Consumer 2022 (5 Minute Digest)

A look at the Future Consumer 2022 report from Andrea Bell @ WGSN. Presented at NRF 2020. #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

Feb 03, 2020•6 min•Ep. 9

What Can Retailers Learn From Jack Dorsey @Twitter (5 Minute Digest)

During the summer of 2019, Jack Dorsey @ Twitter gave various interviews for several podcast episodes. He was very honest open and frank about the evolution of Twitter. What struck me as so relevant was how retailers could extract some of the ways Twitter is engaging with its user/customers, Jacks focus on creating a global conversation platform is the blueprint for the future of retail. #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/...

Jan 31, 2020•4 min•Ep. 4

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