Episodes
The UK's 3rd Biggest Fashion Retailer Owns No Inventory — An OC&C Strategy Briefing
The UK's third biggest fashion retailer doesn't own a single store, design a single garment, or hold a single unit of inventory. Natalie Berg sits down with Olivia May, Partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, to deliver the strategy briefing retail leaders need on the resale revolution. In this episod...
Online Grocery Is a Decathlon — Ocado's European President on Making E-Commerce Profitable
Gregor Ulitzka (President, Europe at Ocado Group) makes the case that online grocery isn't a sprint — it's a decathlon. The path to profitability requires retailers to master logistics, availability, pricing, last-mile, customer experience - the works! From Ocado's origins as the UK's first pure-pla...
Vuori Global President: Cracking DTC, Physical Retail & International Expansion
Most DTC brands struggle to make the leap from online-only to physical retail. Vuori didn't just make the transition -they're now scaling stores across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Recorded live at Shoptalk Europe, Global President Ashley Kechter shares the playbook behind the California athleisure bra...
The Future of Quick Commerce: Wolt's Marianne Vikkula on Affordability, AI & Retail
A third of shoppers now expect grocery delivery within two hours. That's a huge shift in customer expectations – and one that Wolt is well placed to meet. The Helsinki-based delivery platform (owned by DoorDash / sister company to Deliveroo) is now the #1 delivery app outside China and among the top...
How AI Agents Will Rewrite Retail Payments – Spreedly CEO
What happens if customers never reach the checkout page at all? Justin Benson, CEO of Spreedly — the payment orchestration platform trusted by BMW, The New York Times, HBOMax, Getty, Warner, and Il Makiage — joins Retail Disrupted to unpack why payments become more critical, not less, in an agentic ...
Inside Instacart's $110 Basket Strategy | Ryan Hamburger, Instacart CCO
Instacart's average basket is $110 - the highest in quick commerce. In this episode, Natalie Berg sits down with Ryan Hamburger, Chief Commercial Officer of Instacart, at Shoptalk Europe to unpack how the company is evolving from delivery platform to omnichannel technology partner. With over 25 mill...
Retail's Tech Problem Isn't Invention. It's Mastery.
At Shoptalk Europe in Barcelona, Miya Knights — Retail Technology publisher and 3x retail author — cut straight through the AI hype with a blunt diagnosis: if you don't know your business and your customers, you're "stabbing in the dark" at which technology fits, and no AI tool fixes broken basics. ...
Inside Amazon's 30-Minute Grocery Strategy | Amazon VP Mariangela Marseglia
A protein bar delivered in 4 minutes in India. A full grocery shop delivered in 17 minutes in London. Mariangela Marseglia, Amazon's VP of European Stores, explains why this kind of speed is no longer a premium — it's the new baseline. Mariangela sits down with retail analyst Natalie Berg at Amazon'...
Home Delivery Is Fundamentally Broken — Bloq.it Co-Founder Miha Jagodic on the Last Mile Fix
E-commerce may have promised convenience, but increasingly consumers are experiencing something very different — missed deliveries, porch piracy, and what many are now calling "parcel anxiety." In fact, 25% of first-attempt home deliveries fail and nearly 2 million parcels are stolen or go missing d...









