Ep4 | How Retailers can unlock more value from their data

Guests : Léonard Jochem and Steve Collinge - Managing Director - Insight Retail Group 

How can retailers unlock more value from their data?

In this episode of Let’s Talk Data, we explore one of the most critical forces shaping retail in 2026: the growing strategic importance of data.

Retailers today operate in a world of unprecedented data abundance. Sales data, customer data, search behaviour, social signals, logistics information: the amount of information available to retailers has never been greater.

Yet paradoxically, many companies still struggle to turn this data into actionable insights and better commercial decisions.

Together with Steve Collinge, retail expert and industry advisor, we explore why retailers are often overwhelmed by the very data that should give them a competitive edge.

This conversation covers:

• why retailers are sitting on mountains of data but failing to use it effectively

• how AI is transforming the way retailers analyse and activate data

• why data trust and governance are critical to decision-making

• how organisations can move from fragmented data silos to a coherent data strategy

• why retailers with physical stores hold a unique data advantage over pure e-commerce players

The key takeaway: in retail, data is no longer just an operational resource: it is becoming the core driver of commercial strategy.

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