In our retail and shopping malls interview section, we engage with various professionals who are experts in the industry: managers, marketing executives, customer experience managers, technology and big data experts, consultants, and more.
Thanks to these professionals, we are able to showcase the current state of the sector from the perspective of those who face the day-to-day challenges and innovations. The experts share insights into how they have navigated through crises such as the Covid pandemic and post-pandemic challenges, economic fluctuations, price increases, and supply chain shortages. They also discuss how they have reinvented themselves to confront the growing influence of online commerce, one of their main competitors.
If you want to get to know these personalities and learn about their work in their respective shopping malls and stores, you shouldn’t miss any of these interviews.
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Happy Holidays from Flame: Reflecting on an Incredible 2024
Flame helps you to measure traffic at all touch points: passers-by, venue’s visits, floors, zones and much more. Consistently build conversion funnels and benchmark different venues to get to know hidden best practices while enhancing staff planning.
Christopher Brooks: “Retailers should provide time, attention and promise”
For Christopher Brooks, one of the weakness of brick and mortar retail is to try and replicate the efficiency of online. Christopher is CEO of Clientship and an International CX transformation specialist. He thinks that retail is under pressure from many directions. Although, over 80% of sales happening offline, the retail sector has potential for …
Howard Saunders: “Treat me like just another customer and I probably won’t come back”
Howard Saunders, known as The Retail Futurist, thinks that many of our legacy retailers will disappear. Writer, speaker and designer, Howard sees retail future as messy but also remarkable.
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Mark Garrett: “In online you can avoid that awkward `I’ll think about it´ conversation”
For Mark Garrett, Brick and Mortar retail tradional concep will disappear. Mark is the managing director of Catmandoes Leadership, specialist in ecommerce, retail, transformation seeking interim and consultancy.
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Rachel Williamson: “If you are in retail, you must become a student of your customer”
For Rachel Williamson, the act of “going shopping with friends, family or even by yourself is ingrained in our culture”. Today we speak with the Founder and President of Running Great Stores, a Retail Consultancy firm focused on Brick and Mortar Store Operations.
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Ian Golding: “Turning a shopping destination into an experience destination is vital”
Today we speak with Ian Golding, Global Customer Experience Specialist and Ambassador of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. Certified CX leader, international speaker, columnist and writer Ian has over 20 years as a CX professional, teaching the Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) and author of the book: Customer What?, The Honest and Practical …
Ansgar John B: “Artificial Intelligence will change retail between now and 2030”
Today we speak with Ansgar John Brenninkmeijer, CEO of Value Machines.
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Jeff Sward: “The best loyalty is having an emotional connection with the customer”
“Retail these days is about the skillful blending of Probabilities and Possibilities. Probabilities are great when they are available, and still valid. But it is now more important than ever to explore and experiment with Possibilities, the new unknowns and opportunities that are always emerging”. Do not miss our interview …
Michael Zakkour: “We are in the midst of a retail renaissance, not an apocalypse”
Today we speak with Michael Zakkour, VP of Digital Commerce and New Retail at Tompkins International and co-author of the book New Retail: Born in China, Going Global: How China’s Tech Giants are Changing Global Commerce.
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Brandon Rael: “The main attraction to go to a retail store is to interact and engage with another human being”
Today we speak with Brandon Rael, Operations and Strategy Innovations Leader. An experienced retail strategy and operations expert who operates as a senior liaison at the intersection of the business, operations, technology, digital, and marketing worlds.
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Astrid F. Kowlessar: “Technology rules retail!”
Today we speak with Astrid F. Kowlessar, Director of Business Strategy in Vezta & Co.
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