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In this condensed episode, you’ll hear the most vital talking points from the conversation between our Editor-in-Chief, Ben Hanson, and Dan Leahy, Co-Founder and CEO of product decision platform MakerSights. Together, they debate how the retail recovery is developing, discuss how rapid digitisation has reshaped the market, and make a case for a model of retail that’s built on data instead of intuition.

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New episodes will be released monthly, with Episode 2: The Data-Driven Supply Chain scheduled for the start of March.

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