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.


All Episodes

The Modern Retail Podcast | Ulta buys Space NK and Cassey Ho talks fighting dupes

On this week’s Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Melissa Daniels and Gabriela Barkho are joined by Lexy Lebsack, the West Coast correspondent for sister publication Glossy, and co-host of...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Ulta buys Space NK and Cassey Ho talks fighting dupes
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Modelo beer sales decline & Prime Day deals week gets off to a slow start

On this week’s Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Melissa Daniels and Gabriela Barkho Barkho kick things off with a look at Constellation Brands’ declining beer sales. The Modelo and...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Modelo beer sales decline & Prime Day deals week gets off to a slow start
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Dr. Squatch gets bought, Parachute store closures & a mid-year check in on 2025’s biggest stories

On this week’s Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Melissa Daniels and Gabriela Barkho begin with a rundown of this week’s news. Kicking things off is an analysis of Unilever’s...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Dr. Squatch gets bought, Parachute store closures & a mid-year check in on 2025's biggest stories
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The Modern Retail Podcast | Slowing retail sales, cleaner products from Kraft-Heinz, and the rise of private label

On this week’s episode of the Modern Retail Podcast, senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels break down the latest May retail sales data and explain what it signals...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | Slowing retail sales, cleaner products from Kraft-Heinz, and the rise of private label
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The Modern Retail Podcast | The Labubu craze, retail employment shifts and headwinds in the home goods sector

On this week’s episode, Modern Retail’s senior reporters Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels discuss two major topics shaking up the retail world. First, they dive into Labubu dolls, which...

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The Modern Retail Podcast | The Labubu craze, retail employment shifts and headwinds in the home goods sector
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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