CVS Private Brands Strategy, Simplification, and Health-Led Growth with Mike Wier | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026, Mike Wier, Vice President of Store Brands at CVS, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to discuss how CVS is rethinking private brands as...
19 Jan 9min
Agentic Commerce at NRF and the Real AI Takeaways Microsoft Thinks Retailers Need Now
In this Retail Technology Spotlight episode, Amy Vener, Global Retail & Consumer Goods Marketing Director for Commercial Cloud & AI at Microsoft, joins Omni Talk to unpack the main takeaways from NRF ...
19 Jan 28min
Amazon's Walmart Play, AI Shopping Protocols & Drone Delivery Wars | Fast Five
In this week's Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, Chris and Anne discussed: Amazon's plans to build a 225,0...
14 Jan 45min
StrongPoint CEO Breaks Down In-Store Order Picking, Grocery Efficiency, and Store-Based Fulfillment | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026 at the Vusion booth, Jacob Tveraabak, Group Chief Executive Officer of StrongPoint, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to discuss how in...
14 Jan 9min
Vusion’s Martin Bailie On the Execution Gap and Why It’s Retail’s Biggest Risk | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026 at the Vusion booth, Martin Bailie, Senior Advisor at Vusion, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to explain why the execution gap has be...
14 Jan 13min
Costco’s Mark Williamson on Building Retail Media the Costco Way | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026 at the Vusion booth, Mark Williamson, AVP of Retail Media at Costco, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to discuss how Costco is buildin...
14 Jan 17min
REI’s CEO on Rebuilding Growth, Reinventing Membership, and Blending AI With Human Connection | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026 at the Vusion booth, Mary Beth Laughton, President and CEO of REI, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to discuss her first year leading ...
13 Jan 9min
How Ulta Beauty Is Scaling Experiential Retail With 80,000 Events | NRF 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail episode, recorded live from NRF 2026 at the Vusion booth, Aimee Bayer Thomas, Chief Retail Officer at Ulta Beauty, joins Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton to explain why physical...
13 Jan 14min
