Retail Unwrapped - from The Robin Report
Welcome to Retail Unwrapped, a podcast from The Robin Report.
Join Shelley E. Kohan as she shares insights and unpacks issues at the core of retail and consumer products. The conversations are lively and the opinions are honest.
New episodes every Friday.
Retail Unwrapped - from The Robin Report
Latest Episodes
Ep 291: Luxury’s Future After the War in Iran
The global luxury market has been experiencing a quiet crisis, and the war in Iran has accelerated its fragile spiral downward disrupting the Middle East as an emerging luxury market. With over $7.5 trillion in Gulf regional wealth projected to...
EP 290: The Next Frontier: Agentic AI and Operations
AI isn’t just a use case; it's a new commerce channel and operating model designed to amplify loyalty economics. Agents will help customers personally through discovery, comparisons, purchase, and fulfilling their orders. So retail, which has ...
EP 289: Jockey Turns 150 Years Old and Is Still Inventing
A family-owned, 150-year-old brand continues to succeed by sticking to the foundational values of the brand despite short-term disruptions and short-term market volatility. It’s no accident that Jockey has built something that is rare in the re...
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EP 288: Succession: Hire the Enemy or Promote Within?
CEO succession can be a minefield. Who makes the decision? Who gets the crown? Retail just lived through its most turbulent CEO cycle in a generation. Retail companies reported 41 CEO exits through August 2025, a 116 percent increase...
EP 287: GLP-1 Is a Disruption Retailers Aren’t Ready For
The fastest-growing consumer behavior shift isn't driven by a trend, a digital platform, or a fickle generation: it’s a weight loss drug. GLP-1 adoption is accelerating so fast that Ozempic is outpacing iPhone adoption curves in the same timefr...
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