The Voice of Retail Tal Zvi Nathanel, CEO of Showfields on experiential retail in the COVID-19 era and Danielle Goldfarb Head of Global Research, riwi on how they nailed the U.S. election results
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In this episode I welcome back to the podcast Tal Zvi Nathanial, CEO of Showfields, “The Most Interesting Store in The World” as we catch up and talk about how Showfields has adjusted their experiential retail model to the covid-19 era live at the recent Retail Council of Canada Retail Holiday Shopping Forum.
Next, I meet Danielle Goldfarb, Head of Global Research at RIWI Corp. We learn how this Toronto base innovative research company is able to get beyond response bias and delve deep into what is really happening with consumers in Canada and around the world. We’ll also see how this online methodology gives voice to those whose opinions are not usually captured in the polls, and how RIWI predicted the outcome of the recent U.S. election.
But first, let’s hear from Tal Zvi from Showfields:
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Thanks to Tal Zvi and Danielle for being my guests, plus omNovos and riwi for their support on this episode. If you liked this podcast please subscribe on Apple, Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the retail industry.
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Michael LeBlanc is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and now, media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.
Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada’s Retail Marketing conference with leaders from Walmart & Google. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, CanWest Media, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.
Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in America, Remarkable Retail with his partner, Dallas-based best-selling author Steve Dennis; Canada's top retail industry podcast The Voice of Retail and Canada's top food industry and one of the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail experts for the fifth year in a row, the National Retail Federation has designated Michael as on their Top Retail Voices for 2025, Thinkers 360 has named him on of the Top 50 global thought leaders in retail, RTIH has named him a top 100 global though leader in retail technology and Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer. If you are a BBQ fan, you can tune into Michael’s cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.
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