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Modern Retail Podcast

Hosted ByCale Weissman & Gabi Barkho

The Modern Retail Podcast is a podcast about the retail space, from legacy companies to the buzzy world of DTC startups. Every Thursday, Cale Weissman, editor of Modern Retail, interviews executives about their growth and marketing strategies. And every Saturday Gabi Barkho, senior reporter, sits down with the Modern Retail staff to chat about the latest headlines in the retail world.


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The Modern Retail Podcast | Temu U.S. usership plummets, Spirit Halloween cancels season opener, brands go all-in on Dubai chocolate & Stanley 1913’s next era

On this week’s episode, Modern Retail reporters Gabriela Barkho and Julia Waldow discuss several retail headlines from the past week. First up is the steep drop in Temu’s U.S....

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Temu U.S. usership plummets, Spirit Halloween cancels season opener, brands go all-in on Dubai chocolate & Stanley 1913's next era
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Nike’s Amazon return, E.l.f’s big Rhode bet, and debunking recession indicators

This week’s podcast starts with senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels getting into the news of the week. First they look at the changes unfolding at Nike, which...

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Nike's Amazon return, E.l.f's big Rhode bet, and debunking recession indicators
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Klarna’s losses double, Dockers and The Vitamin Shoppe find new buyers & Bansk’s chief supply chain officer talks tariffs

This week’s podcast kicks off with senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels discussing Klarna’s latest earnings, which showed that a growing number of the BNPL service’s users defaulting...

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Klarna's losses double, Dockers and The Vitamin Shoppe find new buyers & Bansk's chief supply chain officer talks tariffs
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Touchland gets acquired, what’s gone wrong with Target & the secret sauce behind brand pop culture collaborations

On this week’s Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Melissa Daniels and Gabriela Barkho discuss the acquisition of sanitizer brand Touchland. The startup was bought by Church & Dwight, the...

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Modern Retail Podcast
Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Touchland gets acquired, what's gone wrong with Target & the secret sauce behind brand pop culture collaborations
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Tariffs hit Mattel, M&A news from Skechers and DoorDash and a look at Mother’s Day flower delivery with Bouqs

On this week’s Modern Retail podcast, senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels discuss the rising challenges toy companies are facing in planning for inventory under Trump’s China tariffs....

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Modern Retail Podcast
Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Tariffs hit Mattel, M&A news from Skechers and DoorDash and a look at Mother's Day flower delivery with Bouqs
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The Modern Retail Podcast | GLP-1 shakeups, the ‘Cowboy Carter’ effect and the fallout of bird flu

On this week’s episode, senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels get into the shakeup hitting telehealth platforms following the FDA’s crackdown on compounded GLP-1 medications — and what...

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | GLP-1 shakeups, the 'Cowboy Carter' effect and the fallout of bird flu
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The Modern Retail Podcast | M&A slowdown, Walmart’s beauty play and how a U.S. manufacturing boom could create a more circular economy

This week on the Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels kick things off with a discussion about how mergers and acquisitions in the retail space...

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | M&A slowdown, Walmart's beauty play and how a U.S. manufacturing boom could create a more circular economy
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Luxury earnings, behind-the-scenes at Chinese factories, and the unexpected industries that tariffs are hitting hard

On this week’s Modern Retail podcast, senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels dive into the ins and outs of LVMH’s earnings that showed first-quarter sales in the U.S....

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Luxury earnings, behind-the-scenes at Chinese factories, and the unexpected industries that tariffs are hitting hard
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Marketers sound off on tariffs and retail strategies, plus how Hanna Andersson built its loyalty program

On this week’s episode of the Modern Retail Podcast, the staff is going deep into modern marketing strategies. First up, executive editor Anna Hensel and senior reporter Gabriela Barkho...

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Modern Retail Podcast
The Modern Retail Podcast | Marketers sound off on tariffs and retail strategies, plus how Hanna Andersson built its loyalty program
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Rundown: ‘Liberation Day’ brings a week of tariffs chaos, a TikTok check-in, and LesserEvil sells to Hershey

On this week’s episode of the Modern Retail Rundown, the staff gives an overview of what tariffs were announced on April 2, which President Donald Trump called “Liberation Day,”...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | The Honey Pot’s Bea Dixon on why ‘better-for-you is the new conventional’

Bea Dixon, founder and CEO of plant-derived feminine care brand The Honey Pot, got the idea for her startup in 2012 when she was suffering from bacterial vaginosis. Inspired...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Rundown: Dollar Tree sells Family Dollar, GameStop bets on Bitcoin & H&M’s profit plummets

On this week’s Modern Retail Rundown, the staff discusses Dollar Tree’s decision to offload its struggling Family Dollar segment for $1 billion. Meanwhile, GameStop plans to close a “significant...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Why Perelel is getting into protein after 5 years of supplement growth

When Perelel launched its first prenatal vitamin products in September 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had upended the startup’s fundraising plan. Co-founder Victoria Thain Gioia said that rather than launch...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Rundown: Klarna preps for IPO, Edible Brands launches edibles marketplace & an update on Nike’s turnaround plan

On this week’s Modern Retail Rundown, the staff starts off discussing various news from buy-now, pay-later startup Klarna, including the deals with DoorDash and Walmart it struck as it...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | PopSockets is on a quest to position itself as a lifestyle brand

PopSockets is the leader of what its CEO, Jiayu Lin, likes to call the phone grip category. The company is known for small, retractable circles that come in a ...

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