Garima Singh elaborated on the importance of considering the balance between tech incorporation and a people-first approach in retail. Where is resistance to digitization most obvious?

Carrefour has become the first retailer to use blockchain technology with its own branded organic products. Do you see blockchain technology making a breakthrough soon in tracking and tracing products across the supply chain?

Forty-nine percent of supply chain leaders have accelerated spending in digital technologies to make their operations more responsive and forward-looking during the pandemic, according to a new report.  Which emerging digital technologies cited in the article will be most beneficial in managing future disruption across the supply chain?

Robots were certainly pervasive at ProMat last year, but Modex 2020, which alternates with ProMat as the major material handling trade shows each year, featured even more. What are the biggest product handling technology disruptors currently in use in the retail supply chain?

Using live data from three brands, the Auburn University RFID Lab has proven that a blockchain network can share item-level data encoded in RFID tags. How confident are you that combining blockchain and RFID tech will eventually enable retail trading partners to share granular, item-level data with one another?

For retailers, the barriers to blockchain adoption might involve wrestling with privacy issues or ease of use, but the initial roadblock may be performance. Can blockchain be scaled enough to handle retail volumes, whether for payments, marketing or IoT?

L.L.Bean wants to know what you’re doing with its boots and coats after you’ve bought them. That’s why the company is planning a test, placing sensors in merchandise to send data to a blockchain platform. How might L.L.Bean benefit from its planned test?

Blockchain, the underlying ledger technology behind bitcoin, landed on numerous prediction lists as one of retail’s transformative technologies for 2018. While many focused on blockchain’s potential use in the supply chain, a newer focus is on marketing. Where do you see the largest potential for the use of blockchain technology in the retail eco-system?

Virtual currencies have been big news for years in the tech world. Now, the Russian wing of one of the world’s biggest fast food chains is trying to cash in on the virtual currency trend – by debuting its own cryptocurrency backed by the Whopper. Is there unique promotional value in positioning a loyalty points program as a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain, the underlying ledger technology for bitcoin, is being hyped as the way retailers can finally bring holistic visibility and control over their entire supply chains. Does blockchain or similar cryptocurrencies offer the potential to transform supply chain management for retailers?