Retail Is Your Business - retailtech and retail innovation

Brain Corp provides autonomous solutions that enable OEMs to turn their manually driven products into intelligent machines. Phil Duffy, Vice President of Product, Program, and UX Design for Brain Corp, talks through the opportunity to leverage accessible automation, expand workforce capacity, improve facility safety, and how the future of retail robotics and how autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can support retail employees, while providing valuable data insights to managers to optimize store operations (amid the pandemic and beyond).

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StellaLife is a biotech company on a mission to improve people’s lives by offering innovative, natural products to accelerate the healing process while also helping to relieve oral pain as well as reducing the need for opioids. CEO Gennady Sirota shares the passion StellaLife has for customers, innovation, natural healing and social responsibility, the goal to help combat the significant societal issue and health crisis of opioid abuse, the support for non-profit organizations and offering natural alternatives to current pain medications, working supportively with oral care providers during the pandemic, and how his own entrepreneurial journey has prepared him for this very moment.

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Brands like legacy ice cream brand Casper's have had to work twice as hard to fulfill orders and demands from their over 10,000 retailers who are selling out of ice cream.  Keith Lawes, VP of Sales and Marketing at Casper's Ice Cream, provides insights into the company's long history, diversifying the roster of successful products, what retail strategies work, and  how they are able to fulfill these large demands (with safety protocols) even in the face of a pandemic.

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Working with a number of the nation's most prominent grocery and convenience store chains to improve their customer experience and satisfaction efforts and results, Founder and President Jeff Hall shares how empathy plays into the impact Second to None makes, and why we've probably experienced the effect of its work.

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The global pandemic has created a permanent shift in the consumer shopping experience and the strategies retailers should implement to adapt to this new reality. Sanjeev Sularia, CEO and Co-Founder, Intelligence Node shares the mission to empower retailers to grow in the Age of Amazon using data-driven competitive insights and how Intelligence Node has built the retail product database anywhere, which feeds the growth of more than $600 billion in retail revenue globally, and customers includes major retailers from LVMH to Adidas.

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Direct-to-consumer kitchenware brand Abbio is inspiring home cooks through a combination of accessible, professional-grade cookware, unique recipes and educational tools. Co-founder Jonathan Wahl takes us through how Abbio is formulating its path to a meaningful place in the cookware industry, and why the pandemic has offered up an unexpected boost.

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Verb's amazing platform, verbLive, is making it possible for retail shops to provide customers with the part of in store shopping that they miss most - human connection (virtually of course). Founder/CEO Rory Cutaia inspires with what is possible now, and how retail and other industries can be deeply affected by this game-changing technology.

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How do you keep a fitting room safe in a pandemic? As apparel retailers move to re-open physical retail locations in a world ravaged by a pandemic, one challenge is that customers simply don’t feel safe in the fitting room. It's crucial to build confidence in the inshore experience with both customers and associates. Two companies, Alert Tech and Healthe Lighting, have brought together their technologies to provide a solution right now for retailers, using Far UVC lighting. It is an effective visible system that cleans the air and surfaces using existing infrastructure. Alert Tech's VP of Sales Brian Laney and Healthe's CTO Fred Maxik unpack the story and possibilities.

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As physical retail locations reopen, how do you protect customers and employees alike? Not everyone will comply with mask wearing requirements or expectations, creating a complicated path to keeping people safe while maintaining positive consumer experience. Richard Carriere (Senior VP, Global Marketing & General Manager, US  Operations for Cyberlink) discusses existing technology that has been transformed into a vital mask detection tool and  a real game changer.

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How does a family owned retail apparel business survive challenge after challenge after challenge, from 9/11 to a hurricane to a pandemic? Guido Campello, Co-Owner of lingerie retailer Cosabella and Journelle, offers insight into a family history of more than 37 years in the lingerie business, and how he took this time to re-evaluate the business while also giving all locations a facelift before a reopening of physical retail locations.

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