CES & Embracing Disruption
Join us as we launch the new Retail Tomorrow podcast series dedicated to facilitating and catching behind the scenes conversations on retail innovation. Enjoy our debut episode hosted by Kevin Coupe at...
View ArticleNRF & Click-and-Collect
Don’t miss episode two of the Retail Tomorrow podcast where we talk about ‘buy online, pick up in store’. Some call it BOPIS; some call it click-and-collect. No matter what you call it, while this...
View ArticleTechnology, Innovation, and the Independent Retailer
From the floor of the National Grocers Association (NGA) Show in San Diego, podcast host Kevin Coupe engages with a power-panel of retailers and experts in a discussion on the unique technology...
View ArticleA View of Retail Tomorrow from SXSW
Prepare to be dazzled. This Retail Tomorrow podcast comes from the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, and features a provocative look at the changing shape of retailing, a discussion of why...
View ArticleInside the Cannabis Opportunity
Episode five of the Retail Tomorrow podcast offers a deep dive into the promises and challenges inherent in the cannabis industry. While it is still not part of the mainstream retail world, the...
View ArticleStorytelling & Influencer Marketing
Hooray for Hollywood! This podcast comes to you from the Retail Tomorrow City Immersion in Los Angeles – which may have more storytellers per capita than any other place on earth. We shared visits to...
View ArticleInside the Kroger-Microsoft Alliance
In this new edition of the Retail Tomorrow Podcast, we discuss the unique partnership between Kroger and Microsoft, developing cutting edge innovations that will take each of them to the next level...
View ArticleProduce as Selfcare
In this new episode of the Retail Tomorrow podcast, recorded on the exhibit floor at the annual United Fresh Produce Association show in Chicago, we focus on the the opportunities and challenges that...
View ArticleThe Disintermediation Challenge
In this new episode, recorded at GMDC’s annual General Merchandise Conference in Denver, we focus on the ways startups are working to disintermediate traditional retailers, how retailers can turn these...
View ArticleChanging Lanes: From Tradition to Disruption
The second of two podcasts recorded on the exhibit floor at the United Fresh Produce Association show in Chicago, we look at how companies go outside their traditional lanes to explore new consumer...
View ArticleOutside the Ordinary
This episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the recent City Immersion in Boston, goes inside the evolving world of LL Bean, the iconic catalog business that has engineered a dramatic and...
View ArticleInsights from GroceryShop 2019
We dropped in at Groceryshop in Las Vegas for an in-depth discussion of not only the strategies and tactics preoccupying many of the attendees, but the motivations behind the decisions they are making...
View ArticleHow Retailers Engage with Startups to Drive Innovation
There is a wellness revolution taking place – driven by enlightened consumer-thinking about selfcare, and startup companies are innovating in that space. In front of a live audience at the recent...
View ArticleEmerging Technologies Meet Health & Wellness
Emerging technologies in the health and wellness segment are empowering consumers who more and more are invested in selfcare. Recorded at the GMDC Selfcare Summit in Indianapolis, we talk about the...
View ArticleLife & Science: How Technology Empowers Healthcare & Selfcare
Past episodes have focused on how technology can have an impact on business models and people's lives. In this edition, however, we drill down to talk about how technology affected one life … and, in...
View ArticleOnline to Off-Line & All the Lines In-Between
Digital strategies aren't just about creating alternatives to the brick-and-mortar shopping experience. Done effectively, they can actually bring people back to the store, while also eliminating...
View ArticleEssential Lessons from a Pandemic
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleApplying Tech Solutions to a COVID-19 World
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART – The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleOpen Questions, Closed Circles
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleHabit Forming
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleBlowback, Pushback, & Other Pandemic Realities
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleSupply, Demand, & Sky-High Challenges
In a new series of weekly Retail Tomorrow podcasts, Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe team up to...
View ArticleStore Design in a Post-Pandemic World
When the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic recedes, it will leave behind a retail landscape that is likely to be vastly changed. What retailers need to decide is whether their stores will be better for the...
View ArticlePandemic Surprises, Disappointments, and Opportunities
This weekly series of Retail Tomorrow podcasts features Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe teaming up to...
View ArticleDefining Transformation for a Post-Pandemic Era
Lots of companies and business leaders talk about transformation, especially now, as they look to a post-pandemic future. But are they doing the hard work and engaging in the kind of tough and...
View ArticleBuilding Stores for an Uncertain Future
This week, Michael Sansolo, research director for two Coca-Cola Retailing Research Councils (and a weekly columnist on MorningNewsBeat.com), joins Sterling and Kevin for a deep-dive into the rationales...
View ArticleGood News, Bad News, & Altered States of Retail Reality
There was good news and bad news last week. May retail sales were up 17.7 percent, which was a lot better than the 14.7 percent drop in April and 8.3 percent decline in March – and not completely...
View ArticleMr. Hawkins Takes an Airplane Ride
The other day, co-host Sterling Hawkins did something he hadn’t done for several months: he took an airplane trip. On this week’s podcast, he talks to Kevin Coupe about the experience – from his front...
View ArticleMaking Entrepreneurship Bigger, Better, & More Accessible
This week's special guest is Craig Dubitsky, founder of Hello Products and now the Chief Innovation Strategist at Colgate Palmolive. Craig talks to co-hosts Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe about his...
View ArticleTechnology Checkup
On this week’s podcast, Gary Hawkins – the CEO of CART, the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology – joins Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe to do a COVID-19 technology checkup, diagnosing the...
View ArticleHow Shelter-at-Home is Promoting Alcohol Business Innovation
Almost six months of pandemic-induced sheltering-at-home has led to a spike in alcohol sales…and Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe belly up to the bar to look at the marketing and merchandising...
View ArticleTechnology, Competition, & Finding Your Inner Barbecue
Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe take a look back at last week's Congressional testimony by for technology CEOs – Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Apple's Tim Cook, and Google's Sundar...
View ArticleEight Essentials of Remarkable Retailing in 2020 and Beyond
This week, in the first of a two-parter, Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe engage in a conversation with Steve Dennis, the author of “Remarkable Retail: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of...
View ArticleThe Essentials of Remarkable Retailing, Part 2
What separates the winners and losers in the current pandemic-centric retail environment? Why are some retailers able to establish themselves as sustainably essential, while others are just momentarily...
View ArticleMoving Daze and Marketing Opportunities
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. It may be a cliche, but it also never has been more true, especially because the competitive environment never has been more cutthroat. At the...
View ArticleThe Power of Teaching; The Value of Learning
It was management guru Peter Drucker who once said, "Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change, and the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn". Today's RT podcast guest...
View ArticleThe Breathtaking Implications of Retail 4.0
It was a decade ago that Gary Hawkins, who with his son (and podcast co-host) Sterling Hawkins founded and runs the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART), released a paper about Retail...
View ArticleImplementing Retail 4.0 Imperatives Part 2
There is another pandemic affecting many retailers – a competitive pandemic that for years left many complacent or paralyzed, unable or unwilling to innovate to the degree necessary to survive. But...
View ArticleInnovation at the Juncture of Art and Science
Architecture and design can be seen as being at the unique juncture of art and science … and this week's guest, Matthew Rosenberg, founder of M-Rad, operates at an extraordinarily high level of both....
View ArticleThe Road to the "Better Next”
Nancy Giordano, one of the country's foremost strategic futurists, join co-hosts Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe for a conversation about the difference between "leadership" and "leadering" (hint: one...
View ArticleNavigating the A.I. Journey
Gary Saarenvirta, the founder and CEO of Daisy Intelligence and an authority on artificial intelligence, joins co-hosts Sterling Hawkins and Kevin Coupe to strip A.I. down to its most basic parts – he...
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