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title: What Can Retailers Expect in 2021?
description: Melissa Gonzalez, CEO and Founder of The Lionesque Group and Principal at MG2, interviewed First Insight CEO Greg Petro during her weekly MarketScale podcast, Retail Refined. Listen now.
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# [What Can Retailers Expect in 2021?](https://www.firstinsight.com/podcast-posts/what-can-retailers-expect-in-2021)

 Written by [Melissa Gonzalez](https://www.firstinsight.com/podcast-posts/author/melissa-gonzalez) | Dec 22, 2020

###### Melissa Gonzalez, CEO and Founder of The Lionesque Group and Principal at MG2, interviewed First Insight CEO Greg Petro during her weekly MarketScale podcast, *Retail Refined *on December 22, 2020. 

[First Insight](https://www.firstinsight.com/) approaches retail with a forward looking view to consumers via predictive analytics. Through their extensive longitudinal data they are formulating insights around how consumers are being reconditioned. They are seeing a convergence of demographics and a shift to online happening as people shift to staples and stockpiling, but what does the future look like?

This week on [Retail Refined](https://marketscale.com/industries/podcast-network/retail-refined/), learn how [Greg Petro](https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-petro-878912/) and his team are collecting data to access the future as companies will no longer be able to build models on historical data alone.

[View full post](https://www.firstinsight.com/podcast-posts/what-can-retailers-expect-in-2021)

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