The Retail Podcast

About Kepler Analytics Kepler Analytics is a brick-and-mortar store analytics SaaS platform empowering retailers to drive sales using real-time customer traffic and behaviour data. Currently more than 500 retailers, 30,000 locations in 35 countries use our system daily, including several Fortune 500 listed enterprises. Our pioneering radio energy-based technology gives retailers the ability to mea...

Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FindMine, an award-winning content engine that uses machine learning to scale content curation for the world's top retailers. As a product and strategy expert, Michelle is experienced in growing companies by launching software, apps and websites to millions of people, putting together joint ventures, and conceiving of new products. She has an MBA from NY...

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In this week’s Five things Friday/Monday, we take a look at the new physical Amazon Store(Amazon Style) opening later this year. Servedup and their food solution, Heat providing luxury mystery boxes, Cook My Grub challenging traditional food delivery & Checkout.com possibly retails digital wallet provider. Brands Mentioned: Blue jumper on Youtube Amazon Fashion Amazon´s first-ever physical fas...

Welcome back it has been way toooooooo long, in this weeks episode, we take a look at the trends that will shape the next 5 years of retail while unpacking the NRF agenda. To watch the video or to see the slides you can watch here: https://youtu.be/A2VJJpG_e0k The Pinterest 2022 report can be found here: https://business.pinterest.com/en-gb/pinterest-predicts #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

Kaave Pour - “Everybody asks what are your problems, but for us solving a problem is not just fixing something that is broken, as that reaches zero (a neutral point), but by asking what are their dreams, what are their aspirations, it gives you very different answers”.   Our next season of thought-provoking leaders will be focused on conversations with “Brilliant Minds” and with guests such as Kaa...

Mahatma Gandhi - “Be the change you wish to see in the world” Louise Watkins Head of Sector Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel & Transport shares her thoughts advice, and perspective on all things retail. Whether you are just starting out, working your way up, or an experienced professional, this episode is full of little nuggets of gold. #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

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 fo...

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 t...

" 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 absolu...

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...

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, tha...

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 c...

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: ht...

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 r...

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/

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

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...

What is decision fatigue, how do retailers use it? And what do you think? #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

A 5 minute food for thought soundbite on a big question is Experiential Retail Dead?  #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/

The big experiment, building a retail community to meet up at NRF 2021 #RETAIL https://www.theretailpod.com/