Peter Housley's guest appearances

Peter Housley

The Voice of Retail

Scott Galloway

Ron Johnson

Mack Weldon

Melissa Gonzalez

Rebecca Minkoff

Heather Monahan

Jason Goldberg

Josh Luber

Michael Schneider

Alex Waldman

Kate Hudson

Ashley Merrill

Danielle Brown

Jeremy Miller

John Ferguson

OwlTail

Lauren Freedman

Andrew Cherwenka

Welcome to the Voice of Retail for the week of April 1, 2019 I’m your host Michael LeBlanc and this podcast is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada and sponsored by Stream Commerce, North America’s fastest growing Shopify plus agency, learn more at Stream Commerce dot com. In this episode an exclusive interview with Peter Housley, Chief Revenue Officer for Vancouver based Indochino talking about performance marketing, the simple genius of the showroom and managing a team through a hyper-growth cycle. Next part two of my interview with eCommerce merchandising veteran Lauren Freedman, President of the eTailing Group. But that’s not all…on my whirlwind trip to Vancouver I had the opportunity to grab lunch at Nordstroms with Andrew Cherwenka, digital and eCommerce strategy and usability guru, on his new adventures and insights in the Western Canadian market. Last but not least I’ll cover off the top retail news of the week, including Ontario Cannabis store openings,  Oxford properties launch of their new food concept in Mississauga, Ikea reinvents itself, Hudson’s Bay results, RH goes big in home, and Loblaw pilots an innovative new digital strategy. Alright thanks again to Andrew Cherwenka for joining me, Let’s jump right into the top news of the week…starting with where we left off last week - retail cannabis!  Big week in Ontario, with ten stores (my bet was five) of the 25 launching April 1.  seven out of ten shared the same pos system,  Cova Software, and they tell us there was $50,913 of sales on opening day.  And by the way As part of my ongoing coverage of the roll out of retail cannabis, and Courtesy of my friends at Environics Analytics CannabisInsights, powered by Vividata, we share some insights about the Toronto and Vancouver retail cannabis markets…. If you liked this podcast you can subscribe on iTunes or your favourite podcast platform. I’m Michael LeBlanc, Founder and President of M.E. LeBlanc and company and you can learn more about me on meleblanc do co or on LinkedIn Join me again next week for a feature interview with Danielle Brown , CMO of Knix and RCC’s 2019 Retail Marketing award winner, and Jesse Michael Managing Director, North America at Stocard who will talk to us about their innovative mobile loyalty app focussed on increasing foot traffic to retailers in Canada. Until then, have a great week!

Welcome to the Voice of Retail for the week of April 1, 2019 I’m your host Michael LeBlanc and this podcast is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada and sponsored by Stream Commerce, North America’s fastest growing Shopify plus agency, learn more at Stream Commerce dot com. In this episode an exclusive interview with Peter Housley, Chief Revenue Officer for Vancouver based Indochino talking about performance marketing, the simple genius of the showroom and managing a team through a hyper-growth cycle. Next part two of my interview with eCommerce merchandising veteran Lauren Freedman, President of the eTailing Group. But that’s not all…on my whirlwind trip to Vancouver I had the opportunity to grab lunch at Nordstroms with Andrew Cherwenka, digital and eCommerce strategy and usability guru, on his new adventures and insights in the Western Canadian market. Last but not least I’ll cover off the top retail news of the week, including Ontario Cannabis store openings, Oxford properties launch of their new food concept in Mississauga, Ikea reinvents itself, Hudson’s Bay results, RH goes big in home, and Loblaw pilots an innovative new digital strategy. Alright thanks again to Andrew Cherwenka for joining me, Let’s jump right into the top news of the week…starting with where we left off last week - retail cannabis! Big week in Ontario, with ten stores (my bet was five) of the 25 launching April 1. seven out of ten shared the same pos system, Cova Software, and they tell us there was $50,913 of sales on opening day.  And by the way As part of my ongoing coverage of the roll out of retail cannabis, and Courtesy of my friends at Environics Analytics CannabisInsights, powered by Vividata, we share some insights about the Toronto and Vancouver retail cannabis markets…. If you liked this podcast you can subscribe on iTunes or your favourite podcast platform. I’m Michael LeBlanc, Founder and President of M.E. LeBlanc and company and you can learn more about me on meleblanc do co or on LinkedIn Join me again next week for a feature interview with Danielle Brown , CMO of Knix and RCC’s 2019 Retail Marketing award winner, and Jesse Michael Managing Director, North America at Stocard who will talk to us about their innovative mobile loyalty app focussed on increasing foot traffic to retailers in Canada. Until then, have a great week!

Exclusive interview with Peter Housley from Indochino, Lauren Freedman (part 2) and retail CX and now Vancouverite Andrew Cherwenka