Retail Ramble

Essential Retail discusses the latest retail technology buzzwords and phrases which are irritating the industry.

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Essential Retail sits down with Schuh to learn about the retailer’s use of 360 product imagery online after working with SpinMe. We speak to Schuh’s web editorial manager, Iris McSweeney and photography manager, Amy Smith, as well as Ian Yeates, SpinMe’s business development manager.

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In this episode of the Retail Ramble, we sit down with luxury retailer, Dunhill, and content creation company, Quill, to learn about the importance of online content. We hear how product descriptions are crucial for operational efficiency and how localising your eCommerce site abroad can be tricky if the content isn’t thoroughly translated.

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Essential Retail sits down with Catherine Shuttleworth, CEO of Savvy, to chat about the skills needed to run a retail business today. We discuss whether retailers need to improve their reputations in order to keep customers and if it is still possible to join a retailer on the shop floor straight out of school and work your way up to the board room.

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Essential Retail sits down with IGD to discuss what the grocery store of the future might look like. Join us in this episode of the Retail Ramble as we discuss how retailers need to balance technologies to improve convenience and speed up the shop, as well as digital initiatives to improve the store experience for those shoppers who want to dwell in store a little longer.

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Summary: Essential Retail’s acting editor, Caroline Baldwin, sits down with managing partner of RSR Research, Brian Kilcourse, for a well deserved drink at the pub following RBTE 2017. We discuss our favourite technologies and stories from the two jam-packed days at London’s Olympia which saw a record breaking number of visitors attend.

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Essential Retail sits down with Michael Ross, co-founder and chief scientist at Dynamic Action, and Simon Blosse, a director in Accenture’s retail practice, to learn how retailers can be more scientific with their data and make informed business decisions.

Former co-founder and CEO of figleaves.com and non-executive director of Sainsbury’s Bank, Ross, describes how retailers can become more intelligent by harnessing data points from across the business. In this edition of the Retail Ramble podcast, we cover decision analytics, the rise of the chief data officer and how retailers need to think of data as a new horizontal function in the business – like HR, marketing or IT.

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Essential Retail sits down with Doddle’s chief customer officer, Paddy Ernshaw, and Marcus Dyer, MD of the digital and mobile agency, Flipside, to chat about on-demand retailing and the new technologies customers are using to engage with retailers.

On this episode of the Retail Ramble podcast, we discuss the use of social media and FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), as well as immediate retailing and delivery. We also touch on future-technologies and the idea of socially tagging our environments so items can be bought through augmented reality.

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On this episode of the Retail Ramble podcast, Essential Retail's Caroline Baldwin chats to Emma Heal, MD of retail at snacking experts, Graze.

Graze has gone on a phenomenal journey from subscription snack boxes to eCommerce, and it's healthy snacks are now available in Boots, Sainsbury's and WHSmith, as well as in retailers across the pond in the US.

We chat to Heal about what retailers can learn from this data-driven start-up company.

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Essential Retail sits down with Catherine Shuttleworth, CEO & founder of Savvy Marketing, to chat about the connected shopper and how retailers need to adjust their strategy in response to immediacy and convenience. We also discuss the changing high street and how retailers are being forced into more affordable out-of-town sheds and the impact of that on communities.

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