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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Federica Dal Zotto: “Technology enhances retail, but the human touch remains essential.”
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.
Doug Stephens: “For a handful of brands the pandemic has been like a year of steroids”
We speak with Doug Stephens, Founder of Retail Prophet, a global advisory service. In his opinion, retailers should be looking at their physical stores as an experiential media point for the purpose of customer acquisition.
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Frank Olivo: “Brick-and-mortar can provide experiences that e-commerce never will”
Today we talk about retail with Frank Olivo, CEO at Sagapixel. He is quite optimistic about the future of retail but not in its current form. He thinks that, as we spend more and more time online, people will crave more in-person experiences. “Retail can take advantage of that and …
Yazan Hijazin: “A scared, reluctant, and unassured face drives the customer away more easily than ever”
Today we speak about retail with Yazan Hijazin, Retail Consultant and MBA Profesor. Yazan tells us that retail has been in a continuous state of change before COVID-19, and now, where fear and uncertainty is the general state of mind, it is put under huge pressure. Therefore, he sees the …
Matthew Brown: “Retailers need to rethink what customer loyalty really means in the future”
Matthew Brown, Retail Futurist & Trend Speaker, is optimistic and thinks that retail isn’t going anywhere, nor bars restaurants or cinemas. For them, Covid is going to be another shock to the system. “Many businesses won’t survive but we are also going to see a huge amount of innovation coming …
Jason McNary: “COVID19 has pushed leaders to think differently to impact business”
Jason McNary is Global Board Member & CEO in Americas of UNO de 50. He’s an Experienced Non-Executive Director & Nomination Committee Member, fashion and digital Global Executive and Board Member with Private Equity experience. In this post-covid situation, He’s exited about the future of retail and says that brands …
Wizz Selvey: “Digitisation will become the new normal for a lot of people”
Wizz Selvey is an experienced retail executive specialising in brand building, buying, marketing and sales development across multiple product categories, Speaker and Customer Experience expert. Today we talk with her about the future of retail in this “new normality”. Although we are in the time of changes, Wizz is optimistic about …
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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