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Alex Rezvan
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podcast · 04/09/2026
Target Beauty Studio: Prestige Beauty Comes to 600+ Stores
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Target is bringing 90 prestige, emerging and global beauty brands to more than 600 stores. Alex Rezvan and Jill Dvorak examine what Target Beauty Studio means for Target, Sephora and Ulta Beauty—and where the customer’s beauty spend could move next.This week’s US retail briefi…
podcast · 02/09/2026
Pinduoduo Malaysia, Singapore–Johor Bahru RTS and AI Search
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Pinduoduo's expansion in Malaysia is testing how local retailers compete with ultra-low-price cross-border commerce, while the Singapore–Johor Bahru RTS Link could redraw the retail catchment between the two markets.Ngai Yuen Low, Ryf Quail and Alex Rezvan examine the proj…
podcast · 28/08/2026
M&S Moves European Fulfilment to Zalando; John Lewis Launches Sports & Wellness
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Marks & Spencer is moving its European ecommerce fulfilment to Zalando's ZEOS platform across 22 continental European markets. Alex Rezvan and Simone Oloman, Co-founder and CEO of NIFT, examine what the partnership means alongside five other UK retail developments from the…
podcast · 28/08/2026
M&S Moves European Ecommerce Fulfilment to Zalando
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Marks & Spencer is using Zalando's ZEOS platform for European ecommerce fulfilment across 22 continental European markets.Alex Rezvan and Simone Oloman, Co-founder and CEO of NIFT, cover six UK retail stories: M&S and Zalando's European fulfilment partnership; …
podcast · 28/08/2026
Walmart Adds Apple Pay as Ross Outpaces TJX on Q2 Comps
Walmart has started rolling out Apple Pay at select US Walmart and Sam's Club locations, with rollout to all US stores and clubs planned by the end of 2026. Alex Rezvan is joined by Jill Dvorak, Senior Vice President, Content at NRF, for five US retail stories: Home Depot's na…
podcast · 28/08/2026
Walmart Adds Apple Pay, Ross Outpaces TJX on Q2 Comps
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Walmart has started rolling out Apple Pay at select US Walmart and Sam's Club locations, with rollout to all US stores and clubs planned by the end of 2026.Alex Rezvan and Jill Dvorak, Senior Vice President, Content at NRF, break down five US retail stories: Home Depot'…
podcast · 24/08/2026
Target’s AI Move, Coach Growth & the Future of US Retail
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Why is Coach growing while Kate Spade declines under the same parent company?And what does Target appointing a Chief AI Officer tell us about the next phase of retail technology?In this USA edition of Five Things Friday, Alex and Jill unpack five developments shaping US retail…
podcast · 21/08/2026
The International Briefing: 5 Global Retail Stories to Know SHEIN, JD.com, India, Shipping & Fabletics
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What should global retail leaders be paying attention to right now?In this edition of The International Briefing, Jill Dvorak, Senior Vice President, Content at NRF, joins Alex Rezvan to unpack five developments from across the international retail industry.Europe: What could …
podcast · 21/08/2026
Five Things Friday UK: Harvey Nichols, Poundland, IKEA & Rapid Delivery
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Five Things Friday UK Edition is your fast briefing on the retail stories worth paying attention to this week.Alex Rezvan and Simone Oloman break down the developments affecting retailers, brands and the wider industry.This week:Frasers buys Harvey Nichols — what could happen …
podcast · 21/08/2026
Five Things Friday UK: Harvey Nichols, Poundland, IKEA & Rapid Delivery
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Five Things Friday UK Edition brings together the retail stories worth knowing this week. Alex Rezvan of The Retail Podcast and Simone Oloman, co-founder of Need It For Tonight, discuss the developments shaping the UK retail industry and what they could mean for retailers, bra…
podcast · 19/08/2026
A Retail Executive Goes Shopping for AI | NRF APAC 2026
What does buying AI look like when a retailer has a real problem to solve? At NRF APAC 2026 in Singapore, Alex Rezvan joins Low Ngai Yuen, Managing Director of AEON360, on a live buying mission across the show floor. Ngai Yuen is not browsing demonstrations. She has a specific…
podcast · 19/08/2026
A Retail Executive Goes Shopping for AI | NRF APAC 2026
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Alex Rezvan and AEON360 Managing Director Low Ngai Yuen go into operator mode at NRF APAC. Ngai Yuen has a live AI and product-data requirement—and two startups she first met in New York may have the answer. This is the buying journey: the brief, the meetings, the 50,000-SKU p…
podcast · 10/08/2026
What's Really Happening in Global Retail Right Now? Hugo Boss, Uber Eats, Nike, Fair Price & LA 2028
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Five retail stories. Less than ten minutes. And several signals about where global retail could be heading next.In this international edition of Five Things Friday, we examine five developments across retail, commerce, technology and consumer engagement.First, Fraser’s Group a…
podcast · 03/08/2026
What Retailers Can Expect at NRF Retail’s Big Show Europe
Why are some retail markets able to adopt AI faster than Europe?30% off an All Access Pass: ALEX30NRF Registration page here: https://bit.ly/4vh5Iz5.Annabelle Serres, Director of Events for NRF Retail’s Big Show Europe, discusses the barriers created by legacy infrastructure, …
podcast · 31/07/2026
Primark vs SKIMS and the Return of UK E-Commerce Growth- Plus Argos, Charlotte Tilbury Five Things Friday UK
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The UK retail industry never stands still. This week Alex and Simone unpack five of the biggest retail stories shaping customer experience, ecommerce, retail technology and consumer behaviour across the UK.In this episode:• Charlotte Tilbury transforms Covent Garden into an im…
podcast · 29/07/2026
Walmart Goes Viral, Amazon Bets on Robots and Wonder Hits $9B
US retail sales rose more than 11% year over year in June—but what sits behind the headline?Alex Rezvan and Jill Dvorak examine five major US retail developments:• The latest US retail-sales figures and whether the World Cup may have influenced consumer activity• International…
podcast · 29/07/2026
US Retail Sales Surge, Walmart’s World Cup Moment and Wonder’s $9B Bet
US retail sales rose more than 11% year over year in June across the core categories tracked by Retail Dive. But the headline number is only one part of this week’s retail story. Alex Rezvan and Jill Dvorak examine five developments affecting consumer behaviour, store experien…
podcast · 28/07/2026
5 Things Friday: WAIC 2026, JD.com's EU Bid & Decathlon's Uber Eats Move
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What changes when AI stops being a productivity tool and starts becoming part of the operating system of a business?In this APAC retail briefing, Ryf Quail and the panel examine five developments:• AI-led business transformation at WAIC Shanghai• JD, CECONOMY and EU regulatory…
podcast · 24/07/2026
UK Retail: M&S Goes Bigger, Primark Cuts Prices & Beauty Gets Personal
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M&S is building a bigger proposition around the family weekly shop. Primark is lowering prices as competition for value-conscious fashion customers intensifies. Meanwhile, beauty and luxury brands are moving beyond products and free samples towards experiences, consultatio…
podcast · 22/07/2026
Starbucks Korea, AI Beauty Mirrors and Lefties’ UK Launch
Starbucks Korea’s Tank Day promotion led to public backlash and an unusual company-wide response. What should international brands learn from the mistake? Alex Rezvan and Jill from the National Retail Federation examine five stories influencing global retail: Starbucks Korea a…
news · 22/07/2026
H2O Retailing Rebuilds Japanese Retail Around Unified Commerce
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H2O Retailing Corporation is modernising its technology foundations to connect data, AI, stores and human service around a single customer relationship.
podcast · 21/07/2026
Milan's Retail Shift: Community, Culture & Curated Luxury (Video)
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Experience alone isn't enough.On the next stop of our Road to NRF Europe, The Retail Podcast arrives in Milan to explore how one of Europe's fashion capitals is redefining luxury retail.If Madrid showed us retail as a destination and London demonstrated experiential re…
podcast · 17/07/2026
M&S Pantheon, the World Cup Spending Effect and Aldi Goes Baldi
What does M&S’s investment in its renewed Oxford Street flagship tell us about the future of physical retail? Simone Oloman and Alex Rezvan examine the new M&S Pantheon format and the growing need for stores to become places customers actively choose to spend time in. …
podcast · 17/07/2026
M&S Bets on Oxford Street, Aldi Goes Baldi and the FIFA Effect
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M&S has renewed almost 100,000 square feet of retail space on Oxford Street. Aldi temporarily became Baldi for Pitbull. Holland & Barrett created a wellness pub.Simone Oloman and Alex Rezvan discuss what these stories reveal about destination stores, cultural relevance…