Retail Ramble

Essential Retail chats to shoe retailer VIVOBAREFOOT about its journey to direct to consumer (D2C) and how it is using sustainable materials to develop its shoes which are designed to replicate the human body’s natural posture from walking barefoot.

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Essential Retail travels to Matalan HQ in Knowsley to meet eCommerce director, Paul Hornby, and UX research manager Laura Keenan. The two join our editor, Caroline Baldwin, on this episode of the Retail Ramble podcast to discuss why the retailer has decided to open a UX Lab.

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Essential Retail sits down with IBM UK’s head of blockchain to hear some retail examples of how the technology is already impacting supply chains around the world.

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Essential Retail sits down with fashion brand Hype which has generated a huge social media and celebrity following thanks to its stand-out prints. Co-founders, Liam Green and Bav Samani, chat with Essential Retail's editor, Caroline Baldwin, about what it means to be a brand today competing for attention from digitally-savvy, fickle consumers.

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Essential Retail speaks to LoveTheSales founder Stuart McClure about the trend of discounting and how retailers can go about coping with the challenges of Black Friday.

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Essential Retail speaks with Whirlpool-owned KitchenAid about the challenges of going direct-to-consumer (D2C)

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Journalists, Glynn Davis of Retail Insider, Matthew Valentine of Retail Design World and freelancer and founder of Essential Retail, Ben Sillitoe, join our regular host, Caroline Baldwin, for the third installment of the Omnishambles edition of the Retail Ramble.

This week the recording comes from the Kings Arms in London's Waterloo, where we kick off with the biggest buzzphrase in the industry at the moment: "The death of the high street".

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Essential Retail chats to furniture retailer The Cotswold Company and Rackspace to discuss the changing shape of retail and how eCommerce can support the future of the high street.

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Essential Retail speaks to Lorenz Gan, CIO at New Era which produces the iconic New York Yankies fitted baseball cap. Catching up at SAP’s Customer Experience Live event in Barcelona, editor, Caroline Baldwin, chats to Gan about what it is like to be a CIO in 2018.

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Essential Retail chats to JML about the fragmentation of the media and how its business has had to adapt its advertising model to the trend of on-demand TV.

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