In this episode, Gabriella Bock sits down with Tal Rotman and Kunal Puri to discuss the increasingly complex customer journey and why retailers today should shift their focus on creating human-centric experiences both in-store and online.

About the guests: Tal Rotman is the Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances at Namogoo. Kunal Puri is the Vice President and Head of Customer Success at Infosys Equinox.

Namogoo offers eCommerce brands a Digital Journey Continuity Platform that automatically compiles data on consumer behavior, website, product, device and environment so you can easily analyze each customer’s unique journey.

Infosys Equinox helps leading enterprises provide memorable and human-centric omnichannel shopping experiences with their end-to-end digital commerce and marketing platform. They serve as a headless, cloud native microservices based commerce platform that allows retailers to engage with consumers whenever, wherever they want, irrespective of the channel of engagement.

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This episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast with recorded live at Shoptalk Europe on June 8th, 2022.

Host Gabriella Bock sits down with Megan Maley, general manager for the UK, Benelux and Ireland at Zalando, one of Europe's leading fashion platform offering a broad assortment from over 5800 international brands across 25 countries

During their conversation, Megan shared her journey to Zalando after 16 years at Nike and revealed tips for managing operations in vastly different regions. Megan also spoke about Zalando’s Style Creator program and why is it so important to find region influencers, as well as Zalando’s commitment to second-hand fashion and how the retailer is making second-hand clothing more accessible

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This episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast with recorded live at Shoptalk Europe on June 8th, 2022.

This episode features RETHINK Retail Top Retail Influencer Haixia Yu as our host and Roland Palmer, general manager for the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, and Nordics at Alibaba Group.

During their conversation, Haixia and Roland discuss livestreaming trends as well as how European brands can unlock the China export opportunity. Roland also shares some great advice on how others can execute strategies on a global level in today's complex and omni-channel landscape.

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This episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast was recorded live at Shoptalk Europe.

On June 8, 2022, Nicky De Simone, Vice President of Enterprise Marketing, Data and Creative Studios for the Estee Lauder Companies UK & Ireland, stopped by the RETHINK Retail podcast booth to chat with host Gabriella Bock ahead of her session at the show.

During the conversation, Nicky and Gabriella spoke about omnichannel and the role of stores, the power of social media and how the Estee Lauder Companies is leveraging social commerce. Nicky also shared how she lets creativity shine in her role at the company.

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This episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast was recorded live at Shoptalk Europe.

On June 8, 2022, Parag M. Parekh, co-Chief Digital Officer at Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee, stopped by the RETHINK Retail podcast booth to chat with host Gabriella Bock about IKEA's rapid digital transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic as well as why "being good is good business."

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In this episode of the RETHINK Retail podcast, host Julia Hare sits down with The Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite.

During their conversation, Sharon shares stories from her recent appearance on Undercover Boss and reveals some pretty interesting findings from The Vitamin Shoppe's 2022 Health and Wellness Trend Report. Julia and Sharon also discuss TikTok and how businesses can best prepare for viral social media trends.

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Host: Julia Hare

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Host Melissa Minkow sits down with Bridget Dolan, Global Managing Director of Shopping Partnerships at Youtube.

During their conversation Bridget shares her journey to Youtube after spending 20+ at Sephora and dives deep into how she is helping bring Youtube's shopping vision to life for retailers and brands.

About the guest: Bridget Dolan is the Global Managing Director of Shopping Partnerships at Youtube where she has rolled out shoppable videos and live shopping on the platform, while spearheading exciting new partnerships with retailers and brands such as Target, Walmart, Samsung and Sephora.

About the host: Melissa Minkow is a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Influencer and the Director of Retail Strategy at Digital Consultancy, CI&T.

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Host: Melissa Minkow

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CBRE Vice President and CRE Fast Five Host Karly Iacono is here to share good news for retail! According to Karly, we have flipped the script of brick-and-mortar doom and gloom, and are seeing double the number of announced store openings vs closings for 2022.

On this episode, we discuss all things retail real estate including consumer trends, BOPIS and how migration during the pandemic has impacted the markets, as well as Karly's predictions for where is real estate headed in the near and long term.

About the guest: Karly Iacono is a Senior Vice President in CBRE’s Capital Markets, Investment Properties group and the host of the widely followed commercial real estate video series CRE Fast Five, which offers a weekly overview of the most pressing topics in commercial real estate.

Karly is also a senior advisor within the exclusive Net Lease Property group, comprising a national team of top level brokers located in major metropolitan areas across the United States that specialize in transacting single-tenant assets and net-lease portfolios nationwide.

Be sure to check out CRE Fast Five at: https://www.youtube.com/c/CREFastFivewithKarlyIacono

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Hosted and produced by Gabriella Bock

Hello RETHINK Retail listeners! Today we are celebrating our 200th podcast episode. Joining the show is our producer Gabriella Bock, Natalie Arana, our brand marketing manager and Paul Lewis, RETHINK Retail’s co-founder and managing director.  

Join us as we reminisce on why we launched the show and how it set the foundation for RETHINK Retail as an entity. We also answer your audience-submitted questions and play a few rounds of "who said it" with quotes of guests pasts. 

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On this episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast we are joined by guest Oliver Brunschwiler. Oliver is a board member and former Lead Link of FREITAG, a global brand that creates one-off bags and accessories made from used truck tarps and fully compostable textiles.

We discuss the story behind the FREITAG brand, the similarities between snowboarding and business leadership, and how the pandemic reframed the future of sustainable retail.

About the guest: Oliver Brunschwiler first joined FREITAG in 2014 as the company’s Head of Brand before becoming CEO in 2018.

By the end of 2021, he decided to distribute most operational roles into a leadership collective, fostering inclusive, organizational progress to focus on his long term mission and strategic projects: enabling the brand‘s potential, unlocking sustainable growth and designing its circular business model transformation.

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Hosted and Produced by Gabriella Bock