APAC Retail: The $32B AI Agent Boom & TikTok Shop Trends
How will the $32 Billion AI Agent market change APAC Retail?In this episode, Ngai Yuen Low (AEON360) and Ryf Quail (Comexposium) reveal why your product pages need to be "machine-readable" by 2028 and...
19 Dec 202513min
Live Shopping, Ralph Lauren & NRF: The Real Retail Signals This Week
It’s almost Christmas and this week’s Five Things cuts straight through the noise.Alex and Simon break down what really happened this Black Friday, why the numbers matter less than the format shift, a...
12 Dec 20259min
How NRF’s Big Show Is Changing: AI Stage, Q&As & 40,000 Retail Pros
This year, NRF is turning the dial up on everything: AI, interactivity, speakers and scaling a 40,000‑person global audience.In this episode, I sit down with Jill from NRF to unpack how the team is br...
10 Dec 202516min
How Place Vendôme Became a Top 3 Luxury Mall in the Middle East | Shane Eldstrom (CEO, United Developers)
In this episode, recorded at MAPIC in Cannes, we sit down with Shane Eldstrom, CEO of United Developers, the company behind Place Vendôme in Qatar – a project that has already become the #3 shopping c...
9 Dec 20255min
Singles’ Day, Black Friday & Quick Commerce: APAC Retail’s New Peak Season
Black Friday isn’t a day anymore. Singles’ Day now stretches across weeks. Quick commerce promises groceries in 15–30 minutes. In this APAC edition of Five Things Friday, co‑hosts Ngai Yuen Low & Ryf ...
4 Dec 202513min
Inside Europe’s Retail Property Boom: Ian Sandford on Debt Markets, Placemaking & F&B Trends
Recorded live at MAPIC 2025 in Cannes, this episode features a rare deep-dive with Ian Sandford, President of Eurofund Group, one of Europe’s most influential retail property operators. With more than...
2 Dec 20258min
John Lewis, Aubin, Joseph, Tumi & M&S: Black Friday, AI & Personal Styling | 5 Things Friday
Black Friday isn’t a day anymore. It’s a month-long pressure cooker – and it’s forcing retailers to rethink everything from promotions to product pages.Correction note: In the episode I mention a jump...
2 Dec 202513min
Secrets Behind Famous Retail Success! Two Customers: Human + AI, 6% Checkout Lift, 21k Weekly Signal
Julia Paulsen, Director of Ecommerce Nordics at Elkjøp Nordic (part of Currys plc), unpacks how to win when your store has two customers: the human and the AI assistant. We cover data quality, MACH, o...
25 Nov 202524min
