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The Innovation Conversation:  In Search Of Actionable Data @ GroceryShop 2023

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The continuing goal of “The Innovation Conversation” is to explore some facet of the fast-changing, technology-driven retail landscape and how it affects businesses and consumers. It is, we think, fertile territory … and one that Tom Furphy – a former Amazon executive who led the team that developed Amazon Fresh, and currently CEO and Managing Director of Consumer Equity Partners (CEP), a venture capital and venture development firm in Seattle, WA, that works with many top retailers and manufacturers – is uniquely positioned to address.

Tom and KC are back, reporting from Day Two of GroceryShop 2023.  Today, the focus is on technologies that deliver a game-changing customer-centric value proposition, with a look at it from both the retailer and vendor perspective.

If you’d like to listen to this Innovation Conversation as an audio podcast, click and download below.

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