Ace Hardware’s Molly Hjelm on bringing the retail back into retail media

About this episode

Molly Hjelm discusses the future of retail media and the importance of retailer relationships and local relevance.

Ace Hardware’s Molly Hjelm joins The Big Impression podcast to discuss why the future of retail media will depend on retailer relationships, local relevance and fully embracing the “retail” in retail media.

People in this episode

Host: The Big Impression

Guest: Molly Hjelm

Topics covered

• retail media
• retailer relationships
• local relevance
• entrepreneurship
• business strategy

Keywords

• retail media
• Ace Hardware
• Molly Hjelm
• retailer relationships
• local relevance
• business
• entrepreneurship

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Organizations: Ace Hardware, The Big Impression, The Current

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