Podcasts about advancing retail

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkings Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

This episode features Sterling Hawkins Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). Here, he discusses his book “Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What”.

Are you ready for the future of retail? This week on The Retail Perch, our host Gary Hawkins turns guest. Gary, in addition to being podcast host extraordinaire, is also the Founder and CEO of CART (Center for Advancing Retail & Technology). In this interview, Shekar asks Gary to walk listeners through his latest white paper, Retail 4.0: The Age of Metamorphosis. Among other insights from the paper, Gary outlines the three steps retailers have to take not just to be best in class today, but in years to come. Gary cautions retailers to innovate BEFORE they have to because by then it will be TOO LATE.

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 then, when the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the acceleration of certain kinds of consumer behavior forced retailers to innovate on the run…though they didn't necessary think of it as innovating; they just thought of it as the bare necessity for subsistence. Today, in the second part of a two-part conversation, Gary Hawkins – who with his son Sterling Hawkins founded and runs The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART) – talks with Sterling and co-host Kevin Coupe about how to implement the building blocks necessary to achieve Retail 4.0 relevance – connected to consumers, contextual to their behavior, and reflecting imbedded cultural values of organizations and their leadership. The inevitable reality is that retailing is being dramatically remade. What remains to be seen is how many businesses will adapt and thrive. 

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 3.0, describing how the industry had evolved to the point where marketing personalization, contextual relevancy and customer data-fueled brand-retailer collaboration had become critical to survival. Now, with a new paper, Retail 4.0, Hawkins argues that the digital transformation of retail will be breathtaking in its scale, scope, and speed. This digitalization of retail – the industry transmuting into a new, higher-order, ecosystem – will be accompanied by a radically different economic model, disrupting the entire industry.   In this, the first of a two-part conversation, Gary, Sterling, and Kevin Coupe talk about the cultural transformations that must take place within businesses if they are to have any chance of transforming their companies, setting the stage for the next step, which is implementation.

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 problems retailers are facing and prescribing solutions for businesses looking to thrive in the current and challenging environment.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. This week, Sterling and Kevin are joined by Chris Walton, CEO and Founder of Omni Talk: one of the fastest growing blogs in retail, and Third Haus: a retail technology lab and joint-venture with Xenia Retail, to talk about opportunities both embraced and squandered during the pandemic. Chris refers to the moment as a "retail reckoning" rather than as a "retail apocalypse", and talks about both small and large companies' approach to a changed marketplace. Plus, Chris, Sterling, and Kevin are examples of past prognostications that they got right, and admit to a few that haven't worked out the way they expected.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. Airlines have one problem – lots of supply, but not nearly enough demand. Retailers have the opposite issue – tons of demand, but trouble in certain segments coming up with supply. And yet, there are lots of lessons for retailers to learn from how airlines have been dealing with the pandemic – about leadership vs. management, about shopper-centricity vs. an operations focus, and about the importance of finding the experience's pain points and doing everything possible to reduce friction for customers.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. This week Hawkins and Coupe focus on the mixed feelings that consumers seem to have about the governmental and business response to the COVID-19 coronavirus and the tightrope that retailers have to walk in order to send consistent messages to their shoppers, keep their own people safe, and alienate as few people as possible. As the country's economy begins to open up – albeit slowly and in fits and starts – retailers have to figure out the shape and dimensions of the world of Retail Tomorrow.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. Continuing bad economic news has been leavened to some degree by some promising news on the healthcare front – a possible vaccine that could come faster than most people expected, and an experimental treatment that could reduce the number deaths related to the COVID-19 coronavirus. But, as the pandemic and its implications continue to play out, questions remain. What new consumer habits are being formed? How sustained will they be? And, what can/should retailers do to meet these needs and desires as they position themselves to be in the right place at the right time in the world of retail tomorrow.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. How will supermarkets be changed by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic? How will restaurants be changed? In the end, it almost certainly will depend on how consumers are changed – and for the moment, that's an open question, still to be determined by the degree to which the nation's citizens continue to shelter at home, and the extent to which the nation's businesses are able to open up. While nobody knows for sure at this point, one thing is certain, it will never look the same across the landscape that we refer to as Retail Tomorrow.

The Hawkins family name is synonymous with retail and consumer focused innovation, and father and son co-founders Gary Hawkins and Sterling Hawkin currently run Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART), evaluating over a thousand new retail technology companies every year. On location at NGA in San Diego, Gary and Sterling offer insights into the state of the grocery industry, retail in general, and the opportunities for the future with innovation and forward thinking.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. One study suggests that the social distancing practices mandated by the COVID-19 coronavirus may be necessary until 2022 which could have an enormous impact on retailing specifically and business in general, not to mention the culture at-large. But at the same time, there may be an app out there that will facilitate contact tracing, and changes to in-store technology may be necessary in order to compensate for all the shifts in priorities taking place. And that's just the beginning of the conversation, as we explore the world of retail, tomorrow.

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 speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus. In this episode, Hawkins and Coupe look at how supermarket employees have established themselves as being 'essential' during a pandemic and what that means going forward … the growing movement toward making the wearing of a mask a requirement when entering a store … how restaurants and fast feeders are getting into the grocery game and the implications for the future … and how 'we're all in this together' means less to some retailers than others.

On today's interview, Emanuel interviews Sterling Hawkins, the Co-Founder, and Co-CEO of CART, the Center for Advancing Retail and Technology. Sterling is also a keynote speaker that travels the world speaking about innovation and how businesses can implement technology to increase efficiency and take their businesses to the next level. Being a 5th-generation retailer, Sterling started his work experience at the early age of 15, launched his first tech company right out of college, and managed to sell the startup and made his way to Silicon Valley. Throughout Sterling's journey, he went from being worth millions to losing it all and coming to a major low-point in his life where he didn't know what his next move was going to be. This is when he remembered a saying that his mom told him when he was young: "The only way out is through" Tune in to learn how Sterling turned his life around and built a successful career as a keynote speaker and entrepreneur that's adding massive value to businesses in retail. To learn more about Sterling and his company, please visit: https://www.sterlinghawkins.com https://app.advancingretail.org Looking to launch a brand or digitize your supply chain? Email us at hello@suuchi.com and our team of experts with guide you through our process. Explore Suuchi Inc. to learn more about our solutions, technology, and capabilities.

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 technologies and trends, provide insights into how consumers will interact with these innovations, and offer guidance to companies looking to invest in this burgeoning segment. Our guests for this podcast are members of the regular Retail Tomorrow podcast family: Tom Furphy, CEO and Managing Director of Consumer Equity Partners Nancy Giordano, a strategic futurist who specializes in the post-digital world Sterling Hawkins, co-founder of the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology Hosted by Kevin Coupe, MorningNewsBeat’s “Content Guy”

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 innovations to their own advantage, why cultural resistance within companies can be the ultimate enemy of progress, and even brainstorm about a business model that could’ve made Toys R Us relevant again. Panelists:  Patrick Fore, CEO and co-founder of Fleat   Sterling Hawkins, co-founder of the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART)   Hosted by Kevin Coupe, MorningNewsBeat’s “Content Guy”  

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 challenges and opportunities independent retailers are facing. Our guests for episode three include: Lauren Johnson, CEO/President, Newport Avenue Markets Lisa Mangino Swanson, Communications Director, Hugo's Family Marketplace Sterling Hawkins, Co-founder, Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART) Tom Furphy, CEO/Managing Director, Consumer Equity Partners Glen Terbeek, retired and previously Anderson Consulting’s Smart Store Retail Tomorrow is a GMDC initiative which hosts a series of “immersion” conferences where people can deep-dive into not only best-practices, but next-practices in retail. Past event locations include in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Seattle, and New York, with upcoming 2019 events scheduled for Los Angeles and Boston. Learn more at www.retailtomorrow.org

This week on the Tech Cat Show we chat with Sterling Hawkins, a leading expert on the intersection of retail innovation and technology. Sterling currently runs innovation for the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART), evaluating over a thousand new retail technology companies every year. We'll chat with Sterling about the latest trends in retail, how consumer behaviors are changing and what's new and hot in tech trends as it relates to the retail category. Shopping will never be the same after chatting with Sterling Hawkins, who is mobilizing a network of startups, investors and retailers to bring together online and in-store for the betterment of business and the world.

In the year 1516, Thomas Moore famously coined the term utopia to describe a near-perfect existence. This word, literally translated from Greek, means nowhere, and for the whole of human history, near-perfect existence has been nowhere to be found. I, Advancing Retail, and my army of innovators intend to change this fact, and we’ll do it by turning the means provided to us by the Fourth Industrial Revolution into solutions.

Hello, I'm Advancing Retail: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and Advancing Retail is leading the way! Who’s Advancing Retail and what’s the mission of this podcast? Listen in to find out.