Omni Talk Retail

In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Takeoff and the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, our good friends Kristin Kohler Burrows and David Ritter stop by to help Chris and Anne hand out this year’s Omni Talk 2021 Retail Awards! Categories up for grabs include: - Retailer of the Year - Retail CEO of the Year - Retail Technology of the Year - Most Overhyped Technology of the Year - Retail Headline of the Year - Best New Retail Partnership of the Year - And, much, much more! To redeem your $300 discount on the Manifest Conference, visit: https://manife.st/continue-registrati... To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: https://alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/ To learn more about Takeoff, visit: http://www.takeoff.com/ Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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 Anne Mezzenga sat down with Scandit VP of Product, CTO & Co-Founder Christian Floerkemeier to discuss how retailers can implement scanning tech to simplify store operations, like picking and packing online orders, to scanning ID's for compliant alcohol delivery. For more on Scandit, head to www.Scandit.com Music by hooksounds.com **Sponsored Content**This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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 ciValue helps retailers deploy machine learning and AI to supply pertinent and organized data for brand partners - Why brands and retailers must prioritize the development of their data into Retail Media Networks and how to start. - How sharing customer data can help retailers remain defensible against increasingly popular DTC brand strategies. - Why the partnerships brands and retailers are forming now will help them prepare for the metaverse and other future retail marketing efforts. For more on ciValue, head to https://civalue.com/ Music by hooksounds.com **Sponsored Content**This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga: - Examine Jewel-Osco's new microfulfillment partnership with Takeoff. - Question the activist pushing for a Kohl's e-commerce spinoff. - Put marketplaces square in our sights as one of the most overhyped tech trends of 2021, following Giant Food's plan to build one. - Discuss what DoorDash's announcement of instant delivery in NYC means for the last-mile delivery landscape. - And close with the rant to end all rants on why Wayfair will never succeed in opening up physical retail stores as long as Niraj Shah is at the helm. There's all that, plus what Anne would name her hedge fund, dames, and the great Amy's Kitchen debate -- i.e. frozen enchilada or frozen burrito? To redeem your $300 discount on the Manifest Conference, visit: https://manife.st/continue-registrati... To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: https://alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/ To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/ To learn more about Attentive, visit: www.attentivemobile.com/omnitalk Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

“Smash and Grab” robberies at several retailers stole the headlines during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but the real concern for retailers should be the significant increase in digital “smash and grabs” as fraud spikes with the growing number of “card not present” and online transactions. In the latest edition of The Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series, Signifyd SVP of Operations and Corporate Development Bennett joins Anne Mezzenga to discuss this and more, including Signifyd’s latest Pulse report outlining fraud data during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021. In this episode they cover: - How retailers should prepare for fraud during peak holiday traffic - New areas for fraud monitoring as store experiences get more high tech, from scan-and-go to contactless payments - In times of supply chain shortages, how retailers can make sure their limited number of products get into the hands of their best customers - The importance of investing in tech like machine learning to maintain security, speed, and customer satisfaction in as many transactions as possible For more information, head to Signifyd.com, and for access to their weekly reports, including the one discussed in this episode on Black Friday and Cyber Monday head to signifyd.com/pulse. Music by hooksounds.com **Sponsored Content**This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

There is quite possibly no trend hotter right now than the Buy Now, Pay Later space. So Omni Talk invited Sezzle’s very own Paul Paradis to join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga for the latest installment of their Omni Talk Ask An Expert Series. Collectively the three of them explore: - The history and origin of Buy Now, Pay Later - The categories and demographics that tend to use BNPL the most - How the BNPL adoption curve is shifting to in-store payments - And what we can expect during the holidays and going forward into next year Pretty soon BNPL providers will be on the tips of everyone’s tongues just like Visa and Mastercard, and this interview will give you a good sense of just how fast that is likely to happen! Music by hooksounds.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week’s Fast Five podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga: – Discuss what to make, if anything, of the retail sales results from the past week. – Laud Macy’s for its Thanksgiving Day parade NFT play. – Temper our expectations surrounding the new Toys R Us store that is opening soon at the American Dream shopping mall. – Curiously explore the intersection of online warehouse club shopping and grocery shopping through the lens of Boxed’s latest acquisition. – And close by offering our take on the slew of smash and grab robberies besieging retail right now. There’s all that, plus a cool new video demonstration of how to shop multiple retailers online at the Mall of America all in one cart, a shameless Urban Rooster Shop plug, and a debate over the sexiest toy store mascot of all-time! To watch the MOA demo,, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2Z8... To visit Urban Rooster Shop, visit: https://urbanroostershop.com/ To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: https://alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/ To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/ To learn more about Attentive, visit: www.attentivemobile.com/omnitalk Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga: - Discuss the dangers of Sainsbury opening a checkout-free store in London that leverages Amazon's "Just Walk Out" technology. - Extol the many virtues of a combo Amazon Go and Starbucks store. - Are happy and somewhat skeptical of the news that Target plans to close permanently on Thanksgiving. - Throw patio umbrella shade at Best Buy for acquiring Yardbird. - And, finish with a look at whether Kroger offering Google maps pickup at 2,000 stores across the country is cool or just PR sizzle. There's all that, plus how not to pick a lock, vacuuming in VR, and a salute to the A-Team's Howling Mad Murdock, Dwight Schultz. To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: www.alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/ To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/ To learn more about Attentive, visit: www.attentivemobile.com/omnitalk Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

A&M's Jonathan Sharp gets hit with tough questions as he shares the most important insights from the A&M Consumer & Retail Group's Fall 2021 Consumer Sentiment Survey in just five minutes! To read the full survey, head here: https://alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ConsumerSentiment-WriteUp_For-Publication_15Oct2021.pdf *Sponsored content*This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this week’s Fast Five Podcast, sponsored by Takeoff, the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, and Attentive, Chad Lusk and Abhinav Chandra of the A&M Consumer & Retail Group join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to talk: - Casper going private. - The rise of retail media networks through the lens of Albertsons. - Instacart's, what some may call, "desperate," new shopping features. - Instant Turkish delivery startup Getir launching in Chicago. - And a deal from Chase and GoPuff that seems almost too Crazy Larry to believe is real but it actually is! There's all that, plus Chad's favorite Harry Styles song, the great Christmas tree debate, and our favorite Kmart memories from our childhood. To learn more about the A&M Consumer & Retail Group, visit: https://alvarezandmarsal-crg.com/ To learn more about Takeoff, visit: www.takeoff.com/ To learn more about Attentive, visit: www.attentivemobile.com/omnitalk Plus, check out our ranking in Feedspot’s 45 Top Retail Podcasts: blog.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/ Music by HookSounds.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy