The Bensadoun School of Retail Management hosted our third Virtual Mini Retail Summit on Friday, January 29th. We were excited to welcome Horacio Barbeito, CEO of Walmart Canada and Bora Keskin, Associate Professor at Duke University. Mr. Barbeito discussed how Walmart continues to reposition itself during the pandemic and how they are responding to unprecedented disruption. He shared the lessons learned for both large companies and SMEs. Professor Keskin discussed how he and his coauthors developed data-driven joint dynamic inventory and pricing policies for a perishable product in a changing demand environment (e.g., pandemics and weather events). Using a real-life data set from a leading supermarket chain, he showed that their policies significantly outperform the historical decisions made by the supermarket chain.
If you would like a video recording of this summit, please contact: bsrm.mgmt [at] mcgill.ca
Please join us for our next Virtual Mini Retail Summit on February 19th. In this event, Stefan Nandzik, Signifyd Senior Vice President, will discuss how the customer journey will belong to marketing in the post-pandemic e-commerce world. Our second speaker, Davide Proserpio from the University of Southern California, will share his perspective on the business impacts of fake Amazon reviews.
