AWG Grocer Pod

AWG has its own podcast! Grocer Pod is hosted by Sean Kosednar. New episodes will drop weekly. Sean, along with guests from inside AWG, member retailers, and vendors, will cover a wide variety of topics from around the grocery world.

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November 27, 2024

Help Your Customers Save Money with AWG Brands Digital Coupons

Cara Finger, AWG Brands Marketing Manager, is in the studio with Sean Kosednar talking about…

November 20, 2024

Access Public Funding with AWG's Store Engineering Department

Executive Director of Design and Construction Joel Riggs joins Sean Kosednar in the studio this…

November 13, 2024

AWG Teammates Share Takeaways from Groceryshop Conference

 On this week's Grocer Pod, several AWG teammates talk to host Sean Kosednar about what…

November 6, 2024

Real Estate: The Under the Radar Department You Need to Know

Doing everything from site selection to lease management, market research and store engineering, AWG's Real…

October 23, 2024

Keep Your Customers Healthy with AWG Cough & Cold Offerings

Stacy Leeton, AWG Sr. Category Manager for Health & Wellness, is back on Grocer Pod.…

October 16, 2024

Boost Sales While Customers Boost Immunity with AWG Brands Vitamins

AWG Brands has revamped its vitamin category. Stacy Leeton, AWG Sr. Category Manager for Health…

October 9, 2024

Grocer Pod Visits Kansas City Food Show

On this week's Grocer Pod, Sean Kosednar walks the show floor at the 2024 Kansas…

October 2, 2024

Enhance Your Staff Training with AWG University

AWG University is here to help our member retailers provide comprehensive employee training for their…

September 11, 2024

Get Ready for Snack Season with AWG Brands Salty Snacks

Salty Snacks is a $60.5 Billion a year category. Category Manager Jared Grieve and AWG…

September 10, 2024

Kelce Mix!

We couldn't wait until Wednesday to bring you Category Manager Ernesto Otero's conversation with Sean…

September 4, 2024

Celebrate Family Meals Month with AWG Brands and Retail Marketing Network

September is FMI's Family Meals Month. AWG Brands' Senior Marketing Specialist, Rachel Frierdich and Kaylee…

August 28, 2024

AWG Brands Revamps Paper Category

On this week's Grocer Pod, AWG Brands Senior Sourcing Manager Robert Fahr and Daymon Senior…

August 21, 2024

VMC Products Integrated into AWG

AWG has completed integration of VMC products, programs and teams into the AWG merchandising organization…

August 15, 2024

Take Care of Your Textile Needs with AWG's Grocer’s Kart

AWG Advertising Specialist Ryan Gellings joins Sean Kosednar on this week’s Grocer Pod. The two…

July 31, 2024

Put Your Store in Focus with AWG's Media Productions

We have a role reversal on this week's Grocer Pod. Sean Kosednar is in the…

July 24, 2024

Raise the Dough with Best Choice from the Bakery

AWG Brands has great new products in their Best Choice from the Bakery Line. Category…

July 17, 2024

How to Attract and Keep the Best Employees

On this week's Grocer Pod, IGA President and CEO John Ross joins host Sean Kosednar…

July 10, 2024

From Idea to Shelf: Meet the Newest AWG Brands Products

AWG Brands' best-in-class portfolio includes over 4,000 items across the brands: Always Save, Best Choice,…

July 3, 2024

Convert to Digital Circulars with Ideal by Design House

Learn how to reach more customers with digital circulars when Sean Kosednar talks with Ideal…

June 19, 2024

Stock up This Summer on AWG Brands' Newest Ice Cream Offerings

12AWG Brands has totally overhauled the ice cream category. Category Sales Director Brady Manning and…

June 12, 2024

Celebrate 40 Years with Always Save

2024 marks the 40th Anniversary for Always Save. AWG Brands Executive Director Emily Detwiler joins…

June 5, 2024

Grocer Pod Celebrates 103rd Episode Milestone

 Grocer Pod host, Sean Kosednar, looks back on the first 103 episodes of the show. 

May 30, 2024

2024 Innovation Showcase pt.2

It is the last of the conversations from Innovation Showcase. Sean Kosednar sits down with…

May 22, 2024

Recruit and Retain High Quality Employees with Time Forge

Learn how TimeForge can help AWG members attract and keep great employees from the TimeForge COO Audrey Hogan.…

May 7, 2024

Claim Your Portion of the $5.54 Billion Settlement with Visa and MasterCard

Learn how you can claim the money you are owed from the recent class action…

May 1, 2024

Heather DeLuca shares what she learned at the annual Meat Conference

AWG Vice-President of Meat and Seafood, Heather DeLuca is in the studio chewing the fat …

April 24, 2024

State of the Industry with FMI’s Leslie Sarasin

Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO of FMI, joins Sean Kosednar on this week’s Grocer Pod.…

April 19, 2024

Innovation Showcase 2024 pt 1

This week's episode is the first round up of conversations Sean Kosednar had with vendors…

April 10, 2024

Anticipatory Grocery: Accelerating Innovation and Growth with Daniel Burrus

In this episode of Grocer Pod, we're joined by Daniel Burrus, global futurist, strategic advisor…

April 4, 2024

AWG's New Partnership with Instacart

Last week AWG and Instacart agreed to a partnership that enables more direct access to…

March 20, 2024

AppCard Provides AWG Members with an Innovative Loyalty Option

Learn how to take advantage of AWG's Retail Marketing Network revenue-share opportunitywith AppCard's SVP of…

March 13, 2024

Power your eCommerce solution with Freshop

NCR Freshop's Nick Arlt joins Sean Kosednar on this week's Grocer Pod. The two discuss…

March 6, 2024

Save Cold Hard Cash with OpSense

Learn how monitoring your store's systems with OpSense. Sean Kosednar talks with OpSense CEO, Stu…

February 28, 2024

Learn How Self Checkout Impacts Customer Loyalty

Dr. Farhana Nusrat, Assistant Professor of Marketing,  Knauss School of Business at the University of San…

February 21, 2024

Yogurt Category Updates with AWG Brands

Kimberly Kubec joins Sean Koednar in the studio to talk all things Yogurt on this…

February 14, 2024

Raise Profits in Bakery & Serve Success in Deli

Executive Director of Bakery Deli & Food Service Michael Pursell joins Sean Kosednar in the…

February 8, 2024

Fill your Bowl with AWG's New Cereal Initiative

Category Manager Ernesto Ortero joins Sean Kosednar in the studio for this week's Grocer Pod.…

January 31, 2024

2024 Trends with Shawn Tuckett

Webstop CEO Shawn Tuckett joins Sean Kosednar on this week's Grocer Pod. They two discuss…

January 17, 2024

Get to Know Your Customers Day

To celebrate Get to Know Your Customers Day, Pat Kerwin from Buche Foods joins Sean…

January 10, 2024

What to do when you are ready for expansion

Get ready to expand your business with friend of the show Carey Berger, from Crossroads…

December 20, 2023

Learn to Serve Your Multicultural Customers

AWG’s director of Hispanic & International Sales, Crystal Gonzales, joins Sean Kosednar in the studio…

December 14, 2023

From Board Member to SVP

SVP of Special Projects, James Neumann joins Sean Kosednar in the studio on this week's…

November 29, 2023

Harvest Incremental Sales from your Floral Department

No store is too small to have a floral department. Kansas City's floral specialist, Shannon…

November 15, 2023

Meet the Mind Behind AWG Brands Award Winning Label Design

Hear about the process of creating AWG Brands labels as Daymon's Creative Director, Steve Cox,…

November 13, 2023

IGA President John Ross Talks Marketing

 IGA President and CEO John Ross is this week's guest on Grocer Pod. Sean Kosednar…

November 1, 2023

New products from Yoplait!

Sarah Peck and Matt Amendola, from General Mills, talk with Sean Kosednar on this week's…

October 25, 2023

Competing in the Digital Landscape with Logan Bayless

ECommerce Manager Logan Bayless joins Sean Kosednar in the studio on this week's Grocer Pod.…

October 18, 2023

AWG Brands Sales Team

Senior Regional Sales Manager for AWG Brands, Jana Lagis, joins Sean Kosednar in the studio…

October 4, 2023

VMC Pharmacy

Learn all about the 2024 change to DIR fees from VMC's pharmacy financial analyst Erica…

September 28, 2023

Shelly Dean

AWG's Food Safety Director, Shelly Dean joins Sean Kosednar in studio for this week's Grocer…

September 20, 2023

TimeForge

 Audrey Hogan, COO of TimeForge, is Sean Kosednar's guest this week on Grocer Pod. The two talk…

September 13, 2023

Phononic

Save money, time, and space in everything from your freezer section to curbside pickup with…

September 6, 2023

Save-a-Label with Rachel Corkill

Learn all about the Save-a-Label program from AWG Brands this week as Rachel Corkill joins…

August 30, 2023

Social Media with Carissa Teschner

On this week's Grocer Pod, Sean Kosednar is joined in the studio by Omnichannel Marketing…

August 23, 2023

Digital Coupons with Jeremy Butcher

This week Jeremy Butcher, from AWG's Retailer Marketing Network, joins Sean Kosednar in studio to…

August 16, 2023

VMC Show 2023

Sean Kosednar was on location at VMC's 2023 show. He caught up with promotional manager,…

August 7, 2023

Episode 70

Grocer Pod is dropping a couple of days early this week! AWG Senior Vice President,…

August 2, 2023

Episode 69

Sean Kosednar, is joined by not one, but two guests this week. First Sean talks…

July 26, 2023

Episode 68

On this week's Grocer Pod, Sean Kosednar is joined in studio by a trio of…

July 19, 2023

Episode 67

The VMC show is right around the corner! Jeni Ganzman joins Sean Kosednar this week…

July 12, 2023

Episode 66

This week, Sean Kosednar is joined by Tye Anthony. The two of them talk all…

July 5, 2023

Episode 65

This week, Sean Kosednar joined with Daymon Senior Director, Emma Bryan, to explain Daymon’s important…

June 28, 2023

Episode 64

AWG's Vice-President of Meat & Seafood, Heather DeLuca joins Sean Kosednar to talk summer grilling,…

June 21, 2023

Episode 63

Sean Kosednar is joined in the studio by AWG's Executive Vice-President of Distribution and Logistics,…

May 31, 2023

Episode 62

Matt Cole from Storewise joins Sean Kosednar in the studio this week. Storewise is all…

May 24, 2023

Episode 61

Emily Detwiler is the new AWG Brands Executive Director. Prior to this role Emily was…

May 17, 2023

Episode 60

This week Sean Kosednar is joined by Colleen Jensen Senior Channel Manager from SES Immagotag…

May 10, 2023

Episode 59

Chief Information Officer Shelly Moore joins Sean Kosednar this week on Grocer Pod. The two…

May 3, 2023

Episode 58

Sean Kosednar sits down with Kate Favrow from AWG Brands. The two breakdown the differences…

April 26, 2023

Episode 57

This week Sean Kosednar is joined by Scott Klososky. Scott is the founding partner of…

April 11, 2023

Episode 56

Grocer Pod is back! Sean Kosednar is at the Innovation Showcase catching up with a…

July 14, 2022

Episode 55

David Smith is joined by Mike Beal, CFO Ball's Food Stores. They discuss the SNAP…

May 12, 2022

Episode 54

On the latest episode of Grocer Pod AWG President & CEO David Smith talks with…

April 13, 2022

Todd Linksy

We are back. We snuck into one of the education sessions durring the Innovation Showcase…

July 21, 2021

Innovation Showcase 2021 - Storewise

Don't miss Grocer Pod's last show from the 2021 Innovation Showcase. AWG President and CEO…

July 18, 2021

Innovation Showcase 2021 - Red Sun

We have another episode from the Innovation Showcase. This time AWG President and CEO David…

July 16, 2021

Innovation Showcase 2021 - Proctor & Gamble

As the second week of the 2021 Innovation Showcase wraps up AWG President and CEO…

July 9, 2021

Innovation Showcase 2021 - Conagra

Today David Smith talks with Roy Hall from Conagra Foods. Roy is a business development…

July 5, 2021

Innovation Showcase 2021 - PFS Brands

The 2021 Innovation Showcase kicks off this week. Grocer Pod will have multiple episodes over…

February 17, 2021

Episode 53

Our first video pod! AWG President and CEO meets with Doug Madenberg and Brian Numainville…

February 10, 2021

Episode 52

AWG President and CEO David Smith talks with VMC's VP of Pharmacy Bob Pessel. The…

February 3, 2021

Episode 51

AWG President and CEO David Smith talks with Chris Jones from National Grocers' Association about…

January 27, 2021

Episode 50

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith talks with Kim Eskew from Harp's Foods.

January 20, 2021

Episode 49

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith talks with Vice President of Deli, Bakery,…

January 15, 2021

Episode 48

Sean turns the tables and Interviews AWG President and CEO David Smith along with COO…

January 6, 2021

Episode 47

We are back for the first show of 2021. AWG President and CEO talks with…

November 11, 2020

Episode 46

This week David Smith has three conversations with retailers from our Norfolk Division. Hear from…

November 4, 2020

Episode 45

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith talked with Paul Adams and Carey Berger…

October 14, 2020

Episode 44

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith talks with Joe Koppeis and his team.…

October 7, 2020

Episode 43

This week AWG President and CEO David smith sits down with Leslie Sarasin, FMI President…

September 30, 2020

Episode 42

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith sits down with Chief Financial Officer Gary…

September 22, 2020

Episode 41

Grocer Pod is back after a short break. AWG President & CEO David Smith talks…

August 26, 2020

Episode 40

David Smith talks with EVP Jeff Pedersen about everything AWG has been doing to assist…

August 18, 2020

Episode 39

Jan Sokol, from G.O.T. Systems, makes her return to Grocer Pod. This week she joins…

August 12, 2020

Episode 38

This week's show kicks off with a conversation with Adam Salus about Pharmacy. There is…

August 7, 2020

Episode 37

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith is joined by Chris Jones from National…

July 28, 2020

Episode 36

AWG President & CEO David Smith talks with Doug Madenberg and Brian Numainville from Retail…

July 22, 2020

Episode 35

This week AWG President and CEO David Smith sits down with Kevin Coupe for a…

July 14, 2020

Episode 34

This is a big week of content for Grocer Pod. First, this episode features David…

July 9, 2020

Episode 33

This week David Smith spoke with Dale Farley and Kevin Ergenbright. Both men have long…