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Remarkable Retail Podcast

by Michael LeBlanc, Steve Dennis

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Wayfair’s President Jon Blotner on Going Physical, Plus Aritzia’s Blowout Quarter & Grocery’s Mushy Middle

October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Steve Dennis is back from Athens, where he keynoted on the soul of the store and walked the Ancient Agora, one of the world’s first marketplaces. He and Michael LeBlanc open with a hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation report: consumer…
Keeping the Soul in the Sole: Birkenstock Americas President & Managing Director, David Kahan on Constantly Reinventing a 250-Year-Old Icon (E)

October 13, 2026 · 32 min

In this special Encore episode from 2025, Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc are revisiting one of our favourite conversations from last year: David Kahan, President and Managing Director of Birkenstock Americas, on keeping a 250-year-old…
Consumer Spending Still Defies Gravity, Luxury Retail Winners and Losers & Untangling AI Shopping Agents

October 6, 2026 · 46 min

Can consumer spending keep defying gravity? Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc open Episode 314 by untangling a contradictory economy. GDP growth is solid and spending is holding up, yet consumer sentiment sits at its lowest since 2014, the…
Seth Godin: Solving the Unsolvable, Plus Costco Surges & the AI Backlash

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

Seth Godin, bestselling author of more than 20 books, visionary, friend of the pod and the inventor of email marketing, returns to The Remarkable Retail podcast to discuss his new book, The Knot. Seth reframes the Gordian Knot legend…
The Race to the Doorstep Escalates, Plus Bloomingdale's Record Comp & Diesel Drama

September 22, 2026 · 44 min

The Remarkable Retail podcast turns six. Steve Dennis opens with the macro picture: inflation remains stubborn, driven largely by fuel. U.S. diesel just hit an all-time high, regular gas is up 36% year over year, and retailers absorbing…

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Lululemon Slides, Five Below Sizzles & Anthropic Enters Commerce, Plus Guest co-Host Anne Mezzenga Goes Undercover

September 8, 2026 · 52 min

Remarkable Retail Episode 311 welcomes guest co-host and longtime friend of the pod Anne Mezzenga, Founder & CEO of Retail Field Report, joining Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc on mic and on camera. Anne opens with her new venture…
Walmart Stalls, Target Stirs & Amazon Flies, Plus Bain Capital's Scott Friend and VMG's Indy Guha

August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Episode 310 opens with Steve Dennis reporting back from an invitation-only Amazon analyst day in Seattle, two days focused on Prime and grocery. Steve unpacks the breadth of the Prime flywheel, Amazon's push into sub-one-day delivery, the…
Amazon Surges, Luxury Splits, Wayfair Surprises, Plus Wharton's Kartik Hosanagar on Why AI Is the Customer Now

August 11, 2026 · 56 min

Amazon keeps raising the bar. Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc open with the retailer's blockbuster quarter: massive gains in AWS and advertising, staggering AI capex, and retail revenue up 16% year over year, up from 12% last year…
Ulta Beauty's Amiee Bayer-Thomas on Why Stores Are Queen, Plus Wayfair's Big-Box Bet and Shein's Hong Kong Pivot

July 28, 2026 · 60 min

Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc open episode 308 with a check on Steve's number one prediction for 2026 — uncertainty reigns supreme — and it's holding up. The flat 10% global tariff is gone, replaced by a 10–12.5% range on nearly all…
Bombas CEO Jason LaRose on Socks, Soul, and Scale — Plus Nike Stalls While Levi's and Aritzia Soar

July 14, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

This episode comes to you live from our pop-up studio at the CommerceNext Growth Show in New York City. Our guest: Jason LaRose, CEO of Bombas — the brand that turned socks, underwear, and tees into a mission-powered growth machine, with…
Tractor Supply CMO Kimberley Gardiner on the Power of "Life Out Here." PLUS : Grocery's Shaky Middle and Starbucks Convenience Pivot

June 30, 2026 · 55 min

Recorded live on the CommerceNext Growth Show main stage in NYC, Steve Dennis sits down with Kimberley "KG" Gardiner, Chief Marketing Officer of Tractor Supply Company, who traces her path from senior marketing roles at Toyota, Lexus, and…
The Analysts Reunited: Strong Sales, Sour Sentiment, and Tough Turnarounds

June 16, 2026 · 42 min

Episode 304 reunites The Analysts — Remarkable Retail's celebrated panel of Forrester's Sucharita Kodali, Guggenheim's Simeon Siegel, and GlobalData's Neil Saunders — to take stock of retail coming out of earnings season. Steve Dennis and…

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About the show

I'm Steve Dennis, strategic advisor, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and host of the industry leading Remarkable Retail podcast, along with fellow retail insider Michael LeBlanc. Discover why C-suite executives from Amazon, Walmart, Ikea, Tractor Supply, Vuori and dozens more - choose to share their growth stories on the only retail podcast hosted by two of the NRF's top voices for 2025 and 2026. With AI reshaping just about everything, when making sense of competing narratives has never been more challenging, and when so many brands face an existential choice between becoming remarkable or risking irrelevance, Michael and I are here to give you the no-BS perspectives you need to aim higher, move faster, and take the bold actions you must. Our new season debuts January 13th, 2026, so be sure to follow the Remarkable Retail podcast on all the major platforms and on YouTube. © 2020-2026 Steve Dennis. All Rights Reserved.