Hosted by Maya Sankoh and Christine Montard and MAYA and Selvane and Anchita Ranka and Christine · International Association of Department Stores - IADS
🦖 Welcome to IADS Retail Park—where retail giants evolve or go extinct. Department stores get dismissed as dinosaurs all the time. But the best ones aren't fossils, they're transforming faster than most people realise. The IADS Retail Park delivers exclusive insights, transformation strategies, and expert analysis from the International Association of Department Stores. Built for executives and strategists who need actionable takeaways without the fluff.
Because let's be honest: in retail today, you're either adapting or you're already behind.
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Homegrown AI: Why owning the model isn't the point
In this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-sankoh/) and Anchita (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anchita-ranka-72b36a194/) break down why AI access is getting cheaper by the month, and why that’s not the advantage department stores think it is 🤖.
Click here to read the 👉 IADS Exclusive: Homegrown AI and Intelligence Department Stores Should Own (https://iads.substack.com/p/iads-exclusive-homegrown-ai-and-the)
For more insights and updates, follow us on LinkedIn at the International Association of Department Stores (https://fr.linkedin.com/company/international-association-of-department-stores), check out our Substack (https://iads.substack.com/), visit our website at www.IADS.org (https://www.IADS.org) for additional resources, and learn more here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Department_Stores)!
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21 Jul 2026
The price is personal: How algorithmic pricing is reshaping retail trust
In this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-sankoh/) and Anchita (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anchita-ranka-72b36a194/) break down why most retailers can't name the difference between dynamic, differential, and surveillance pricing — and why that distinction is now a legal and competitive liability 💰. Based on this week's IADS Exclusive by Anchita Ranka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anchita-ranka-72b36a194/), the conversation lays out why trying to out-Amazon Amazon on data is the wrong race, and what transparency-first pricing actually looks like in practice.
Click here to read the👉 IADS Exclusive: The transparency trade-off: pricing, loyalty and regulation (https://iads.substack.com/)
For more insights and updates, follow us on LinkedIn at International Association of Department Stores (https://fr.linkedin.com/company/international-association-of-department-stores), check out our Substack (https://iads.substack.com/), visit our website at www.IADS.org (http://www.iads.org/) for additional resources, and learn more here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Department_Stores)!
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iads.substack.com/subscribe (https://iads.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
15 Jul 2026
The Marks & Spencer comeback
In 2022, Marks & Spencer (https://iads.substack.com/p/iads-exclusive-the-great-marks-and)’s share price stood at 130 pence. By 2026, it had nearly tripled to 350 pence 📈. The brand now ranks #1 in the UK for the second consecutive year. In this episode, host Maya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-sankoh/) sits down with Christine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinemontard/), Director of Market and Events at IADS and author of this week’s exclusive, to trace every chapter of the comeback: the cultural moves before the product moves, Autograph from £50m to £200m, the Trusted Value Promise in food🍽️, a £300m cyberattack that compressed a two-year technology programme into six months, and the 14-year gap between a third-party brand strategy that failed and the same strategy generating £200m today.
👉 Click here to read the full exclusive at (https://iads.substack.com/p/iads-exclusive-the-great-marks-and)IADS Exclusive Insights (https://iads.substack.com/p/iads-exclusive-the-great-marks-and).
Follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/international-association-of-department-stores-iads/) and visit iads.org (http://www.iads.org/) to stay updated.
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