Jun 29, 2026
What happens if customers never reach the checkout page at all?
Justin Benson, CEO of Spreedly — the payment orchestration platform trusted by BMW, The New York Times, HBOMax, Getty, Warner, and Il Makiage — joins Retail Disrupted to unpack why payments become more critical, not less, in an agentic era.
His framing:...
Jun 24, 2026
Instacart's average basket is $110 - the highest in quick commerce. In this episode, Natalie Berg sits down with Ryan Hamburger, Chief Commercial Officer of Instacart, at Shoptalk Europe to unpack how the company is evolving from delivery platform to omnichannel technology partner. With over 25 million consumers served,...
Jun 16, 2026
At Shoptalk Europe in Barcelona, Miya Knights — Retail Technology publisher and 3x retail author — cut straight through the AI hype with a blunt diagnosis: if you don't know your business and your customers, you're "stabbing in the dark" at which technology fits, and no AI tool fixes broken basics. Get...
Jun 11, 2026
A protein bar delivered in 4 minutes in India. A full grocery shop delivered in 17 minutes in London. Mariangela Marseglia, Amazon's VP of European Stores, explains why this kind of speed is no longer a premium — it's the new baseline.
Mariangela sits down with retail analyst Natalie Berg at Amazon's "Delivering the...
Jun 3, 2026
E-commerce may have promised convenience, but increasingly consumers are experiencing something very different — missed deliveries, porch piracy, and what many are now calling "parcel anxiety."
In fact, 25% of first-attempt home deliveries fail and nearly 2 million parcels are stolen or go missing daily in the US. In...