Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

In this special episode, we rundown the year with clips from episodes past as we say goodbye to 2021.

Featuring commentary from Neighborhood Goods' Matt Alexander, Starbucks' John Boline, CAMP's Nikki Kaufman, and Gap's Dan Goldman.

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Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare

Produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

In this episode, we dive deep into the store experience with retail and merchandising experts Ken Kuperstein and Andrew Smith.

We discuss the modern relationship between the shelf and the store experience and how experiential retail extends beyond the consumer to include areas like store teams and professional shoppers.

Guests:

Ken Kuperstein leads One Door’s marketing efforts, evangelizing it’s store-centric and collaborative approach to retail merchandising and driving demand for its Merchandising Cloud platform.

Andrew Smith co-authored Retail Innovation Reframed and is currently Co-founder and Managing Partner for the Americas of ThinkUncommon, a global retail innovation advisory and action firm that helps retailers.

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Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare

Produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

The countdown to Black Friday has officially commenced! And with shoppers starting earlier than ever, retailers are having to get creative with their BFCM promotions. In this episode, guest Gina Yuter joins host Julia Raymond Hare to discuss personalization and merchandising strategies for the holiday/EOY season.

Gina is a Partnership Manager at Syte, a leading product discovery platform for e-commerce. She has been active in the eCommerce industry for the past 5 years, focusing primarily on business development and partnership-building.

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Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

In this episode, we dive deep into the labor and workforce challenges currently impacting retail and numerous other industries, both in the United States and abroad.

Joining the show are guests, Nikki Baird and Jack Bennett.

Nikki Baird is a well known former retail industry analyst and the vice president of retail innovation at Aptos, a retail enterprise solution provider.

Jack Bennett is the senior director of solution experience at Ceridian, a global human capital management software company.

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Hosted by Paul Lewis

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

This episode is part two of our deep dive into the 2021 holiday shopping season and features insights from the National Retail Federation and Proper Insights & Analytics' 2021 Consumer Holiday Survey.

Joining the show today is Katherine Cullen. Katherine is the senior director of industry and consumer insight at the NRF, where she leads the NRF's research on consumer spending and emerging retail trends and develops new research, initiatives and partnerships.

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Hosted by Paul Lewis

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

This episode is part one of our deep dive into the 2021 holiday shopping season and features insights from Adobe's annual holiday shopping forecast.

Joining the show today is Taylor Schreiner, director of Adobe Digital Insights, where he leads a team of data scientists and researchers, who dig into Adobe’s vast data set to provide consumers, businesses and policymakers a real time pulse on the evolving digital economy.

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Hosted by Paul Lewis

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

In this episode, we spoke with Jim Marcum, chief executive officer of David's Bridal, about how the company sold to brides during a year without weddings and its plans to meet the demand of next year's big wedding boom.

David’s Bridal is the largest American bridal-store chain and currently operates over 300 stores across 49 states, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Jim is a seasoned retail, consumer and services industry veteran with over 30 years experience leading national public and private companies.

Prior to David’s Bridal, Jim served as CEO, COO and CFO of notable companies like Central Parking, Circuit City, Hollywood Entertainment, Stage Stores and Marshalls

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Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news, trends, and big ideas that are redefining commerce.

In this episode, we spoke with Siobhán Lonergan, chief brand officer at Shapermint, about the role body-positive branding has played in the company's massive growth. We also spoke about how work-from-home culture brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the company's branding strategies as well as its goals for the future. 

Prior to joining Shapermint, Siobhán served in the same role at Thinx. She was also EVP of Design Intelligence at Sterling Brands New York, where she led global rebrands for Kleenex, Huggies, Aspirin and Aleve. Siobhán also pioneered and developed internal design processes for Kimberly-Clark to elevate the importance of design within their baby and personal care divisions.

In addition to her brand-building experience, Siobhán has led innovation initiatives for Pepsi, Mars, Kellogg's and Mitsubishi which gives her a holistic perspective on the industry.

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Hosted by Carol Spieckerman

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail.

In this episode, we spoke with Bill Ready, president of commerce and payments at Google, about the features Google has put in place to make it easier for merchants to get discovered. Bill also dives into the key consumer trends impacting e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail as well the steps Google is taking to improving the consumer shopping journey.

Before joining Google, Bill was the Chief Operating Officer at PayPal, responsible for product, technology, engineering, end-to-end customer experiences and chaired PayPal’s Operating Group which was responsible for delivering on revenue and profit goals for the company globally.

Previously, Bill was CEO of Braintree and Venmo, building both from early stage startups into industry leaders which were ultimately acquired by PayPal. He also served as executive in residence at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital and growth equity firm, as president of iPay Technologies where he guided the company through a period of rapid growth and subsequent sale to Jack Henry & Associates, and worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company.

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Hosted by Paul Lewis

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller

Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to discuss the news and trends defining the world of retail.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy a sneak preview of the insights guests Jenny Oh and Shannon Ryan will share during Valtech’s annual Innova event, held Oct. 7-8.

Jenny Oh is the general manager of tech venturing and innovation at PepsiCo Labs where she leads PEP Labs to drive innovation through partnerships with leading cutting-edge startups, focusing on solving critical business needs for PepsiCo

Shannon Ryan is the executive vice president of North America for Valtech, where he helps leadership teams map, understand and execute digital strategy, mostly in the world of retail, CPG, and B2B.

If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Apple Podcasts.

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Hosted by Julia Raymond Hare

Written and produced by Gabriella Bock

Edited by Trenton Waller