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October 11, 2023 at 1:27 pm
This video features a panel discussing revenue diversification from Total Retail Tech 2023 in Denver. Speakers include Sravanthi Muppidi, head of engineering, Albertsons Media Collective; Nada Shepherd, co-founder and CEO, ReSuit; Brendan Witcher, vice president, principal analyst, Forrester; and Christine Russo, founder, Retail Creative and Consulting Agency (RCCA). The challenges retailers have experienced in recent years have…
May 25, 2023 at 4:31 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Joe Keenan and Marie Albiges discuss Total Retail’s latest research report, the 2023 version of the annual Top 50 Fastest-Growing Retailers. The list ranks publicly traded U.S.-based retailers based on their year-over-year (YoY) net sales growth for the most recent fiscal year reported on. Topping the rankings is Boot…
May 4, 2023 at 12:20 pm
FullBeauty Brands, an omnichannel retailer of extended sizes and a pioneer in size-inclusive fashions, purchased plus-size fashion brand ELOQUII Inc. from Walmart in April. In this video, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews FullBeauty Brands CEO Jim Fogarty about the acquisition, including how ELOQUII will be integrated into FullBeauty's current portfolio of brands as well as the new…
November 10, 2022 at 2:08 pm
This video features a clip from a panel discussion focused on effective collaboration between marketing and IT departments. It was recorded at Total Retail Tech in Nashville last month. Kristen Gasior, chief transformation officer at Balsam Brands, shares the lessons she's learned from working effectively with IT teams, including establishing better cross-department alignment around business goals.…
October 27, 2022 at 3:22 pm
Numerous studies have shown that racial and ethnic minorities, as well as women, are still woefully underrepresented in technology roles. However, the retail tech industry doesn't just have a diversity issue; there's an inclusivity issue as well. At a session focused on diversifying your tech workforce during last month's Total Retail Tech event in Nashville,…
July 27, 2022 at 7:12 pm
Every organization should be on an ever-evolving environmental, social and governance (ESG) journey. In this video, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Grainger, a leading business-to-business (B-to-B) broad line distributor. Carroll discusses Grainger's portfolio of environmentally preferable products (EPP), why the business focuses on environmental sustainability, and…
June 16, 2022 at 9:16 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Joe Keenan and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published by Total Retail titled, “How Retailers Can Stay Profitable Despite High Inflation,” authored by Hilding Anderson, head of retail strategy, North America at Publicis Sapient. The article shares five ways that retailers can leverage the headwinds caused…
January 20, 2022 at 7:13 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Joe Keenan and Kristina Stidham discuss three key themes that emerged during this week's National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show event in New York City. First, retailers are excited to explore opportunities in the metaverse. Second, they're focusing on defining and then acting upon core social values…
January 6, 2022 at 6:36 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Melissa Campanelli and Kristina Stidham discuss the Top 50 Tips of 2021 report recently produced by Total Retail. The Total Retail editorial team carefully reviewed every piece of content we published this year in an effort to identify the 50 very best tips of 2021. These tips cover…
October 6, 2021 at 8:14 pm
In early September, President Biden and the U.S. Labor Department announced an emergency regulation requiring companies with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforces are either fully vaccinated or test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week. Noncomplying businesses could be fined up to $14,000 per violation, a punitive measure intended to stop the…
September 2, 2021 at 5:36 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Kristina Stidham and Marie Albiges discuss an article recently published by Total Retail titled, “Pay Isn’t the Only Reason Employees Quit. Start Offering Them What They Really Value,” authored by Sanish Mondkar, CEO of Legion. This article digs into the opportunities retailers have to drive employee…
March 11, 2021 at 8:18 pm
During the January Women in Retail and Total Retail Virtual Exchange event, Oliver Chen, managing director, retail and luxury sector head at Cowen and Company, shares his insights and analysis on multiple industry-related topics in an interview with Jennifer DiPasquale, president of Total Retail. In this video clip from the session, Chen identifies the retailers and…
March 11, 2021 at 7:44 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published on Total Retail titled, “The Wave of COVID-19-Related Litigation for Retailers is Looking Like a Tsunami,” authored by Carrie Gonell and Kate McGuigan, partners at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. The authors discuss how retailers can…
January 7, 2021 at 7:47 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss Total Retail’s 25 Best Tips of 2020. This list identifies the top tips of 2020, selected from the content we published over the course of the year. Retailers can utilize these relevant insights right now to kick-start business growth in 2021. These…
December 14, 2020 at 5:43 pm
Many retailers are continuing to pivot and adjust business strategies months into the COVID-19 pandemic. In this video clip from November's Women in Retail and Total Retail Virtual Exchange, Aaron Sanandres, co-founder and CEO of UNTUCKit, shares how the retailer has re-evaluated its business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. He discusses how UNTUCKit has…
November 12, 2020 at 4:48 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Melissa Campanelli and Kristina Stidham discuss Singles Day, the annual shopping holiday in China that rakes in billions of dollars for online brands and retailers. This year, the shopping event is an even larger opportunity for cross-border e-commerce growth as online shopping is already heightened amidst…
September 10, 2020 at 8:59 pm
In this video, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Dave Schneider, vice president and chief marketing officer at Red Wing Shoe Company, a global leader in the footwear industry for more than 115 years. Watch as Schneider discusses Red Wing's recent #LaborDayOn initiative, which aimed to help the 25 million unemployed Americans find jobs by switching from promoting…
September 9, 2020 at 9:10 pm
In this video, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Amanda Patrick, social responsibility program manager at drug store chain Rite Aid. Watch as Patrick discusses Rite Aid's recently released second annual corporate social responsibility report, showcasing rapid progress across environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts. Over the past year, Rite Aid has made significant strides to operate a…
July 10, 2020 at 3:44 pm
During the most recent Women in Retail and Total Retail Virtual Lounge, Leslie Short, CEO of The Cavu Group, a diversity and inclusion training company, interviewed mother-daughter duo Bahja Johnson, director of customer belonging and co-lead, Color Proud Council at Gap Inc., and Roz Johnson, senior vice president, operations and guest experience at Build-A-Bear Workshop.
June 25, 2020 at 4:00 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Joe Keenan and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published on Total Retail, “How to Achieve CCPA Compliance by the July 1 Deadline,” authored by Colleen Thorndike, director of data strategy at Valid. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives California consumers data privacy rights and…
