Category: Conversations
Mike Graen convenes five operators and technologists to work through what a genuinely connected supply chain demands.
Ricky Ashenfelter (Co-Founder & CEO, Spoiler Alert) explains how leading brands digitize discounting and modernize liquidation using a purpose-built sales and analytics platform.
Mike Graen, Principal at Collaboration, LLC, sits down with Rob Nemett, SVP of Inventory Planning at Moose Knuckles, and Dick Lockard, Director of Connected Products at r-pac International, to unpack a different model: a dual-frequency tag sewn into the care label that stays with the garment for life.
J.W. Franz, Director of Innovation at TRG, sits down with Mike Graen, Principal at Collaboration, LLC, for a walk through the technology shifts that actually moved the needle: price-stickering cans of beans, faxing $23 million purchase orders, the first UPC scan, and today's always-on RFID infrastructure, computer vision, and shelf-scanning robots.
Ian Coats MacColl sits down with Michelle Elliott to trace how a humor-card business in a South of Market loft became the company that pioneered modern pet apparel at mass retail.
Vic Miles, Regional Business Leader of the Americas at Microsoft, sits down with Leni Hakvoort, Head of Product at New Black, to explore why traditional loyalty programs are falling short — and why brand communities rooted in a genuine sense of belonging are the future of retail.
Storesight's Henry Ho (Chief Strategy Officer) and Marc Yount (Chief Operating Officer) sit down with Mike Graen — a 37-year retail veteran with experience at P&G, Walmart, and Acosta — to unpack one of the most persistently misunderstood metrics in retail: on-shelf availability.
Ian Coats MacColl (Founder, icm.studio; Professor, California College of the Arts) sits down with Silly Street co-founders Meghan DeRoma and Christine Peck to trace the full journey—from a laminated prototype passed around to friends, to landing on major retail shelves.
Join Mike Graen for the first episode in a new live event series focused on workforce transformation—and what it takes to build store teams that can thrive alongside automation, AI, and rapidly evolving operating models.
Join Brand L. Elverston for a conversation with Jacob Gulbransen, VP of U.S. Sales & Operations at DiSa Digital Safety, about one of retail’s most persistent problems: inventory visibility at the item level.
Storesight’s Henry Ho (Chief Strategy Officer) and Marc Yount (Chief Operating Officer) dig into one of the most requested but least accessible capabilities in CPG: real-time competitive intelligence at the shelf.
Storesight’s Henry Ho (Chief Strategy Officer) and Marc Yount (Chief Operating Officer) take on one of the most overused and under-executed concepts in CPG: the Perfect Store.
