Insights & Media

Insights, interviews and media appearances.

A curated selection of content on the future of retail, customer behaviour, strategy, experience and people.

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TEDx
TEDx · Human-Centric Retail

The Digital Age of Sales — Where Does the Human Go?

A concise talk on the relationship between technology, sales and people — and what retail must not lose as it becomes more digital.

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RETHINK Retail
Recognition

Recognised among the world’s leading retail experts for two consecutive years

Continued international recognition reflecting the global relevance of the work and insights.

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Lider
Interview · Retail Strategy

Why Local Retail Rarely Dares to Innovate

A conversation about formats, assortment, employees, omnichannel and the risk of responding too late to market change.

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Ana Brajković at NRF Retail’s Big Show in New York
Global Retail · NRF

NRF 2025 Retail Store Tours

An in-depth journey through retail transformation, new formats, technology and the real role of people in the future of retail.

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Progressive
Global Retail · EuroShop

EuroShop 2026: The Focus Returns to the Store

Why technology is again being viewed as a tool that supports the store, customer experience and the quality of physical space.

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Progressive
Human-Centric Retail

People Before Technology

Lessons from Retail’s Big Show on AI, leadership and the people who remain at the centre of retail’s future.

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Progressive
Retail Experience

Why Do People Applaud Brisket at a Petrol Station?

How destination, ritual, atmosphere and human experience can turn an ordinary transaction into a reason to visit.

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Progressive
Retail Strategy

Assortment Optimisation: Less Is More

On SKUs, choice, customer behaviour and the need for assortment to be a business decision rather than the result of historical accumulation.

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HRT
TV · Consumer Behaviour

Online Shopping Is Growing in Croatia, but Still Trails Europe

Expert commentary on trust, customer habits, cash on delivery and the role of the physical experience in shopping.

Watch the segment (Croatian)
HRT
TV · Market Change

New European Tariffs on Small Parcels

Commentary on platforms, impulse buying, product safety and changes in consumer behaviour.

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Women in Adria
Interview · Retail Trends

Retail Trends and What the Local Market Can Learn

A conversation about physical retail, prices, AI and the ability of experts from smaller markets to be globally relevant.

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Slobodna Dalmacija
Consumer Behaviour

The Effect That Makes Us Spend Beyond Our Means

On urgency, seasonal discounts and the psychological mechanisms that shape purchase decisions.

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Content pillars

Four themes connecting my work and content.

Global retail insights

NRF, EuroShop, RICE, store tours, international concepts and the question of their real applicability.

Retail strategy and transformation

Formats, assortment, customer experience, store networks and the decisions shaping the future of physical retail.

Human-centric retail

Customers, employees, leadership and the business system that must make a strong experience possible.

Customer behaviour

Habits, trust, emotions, promotions, online shopping and the psychology of decisions shaping the market.

Ana Brajković with an international retail recognition
Recognition

Recognised among the world’s leading retail experts for two consecutive years.

The second consecutive recognition reflects continuity of work and an active presence in the global retail conversation.

More about the recognition (Croatian)
Ana Brajković in conversation with an audience
For the media

Topics for expert commentary and media appearances.

I am available for expert commentary on market change, customers, retail trends, sales, physical and online retail, and customer experience.

Retail

The future of physical retail

Formats, innovation, trends, technology and changing customer expectations.

Customers

Consumer behaviour

Online shopping, promotions, impulse, trust, experience and purchase decisions.

People

Employees and leadership

Service, sales culture, frontline leadership and organisational responsibility for customer experience.

Market

Market change and regulation

New platforms, international competition, tariffs, prices and their impact on the local market.

In the media, I explain complex retail topics clearly and connect them with real life.

The goal is to help the audience understand what change means for customers, employees and companies.

That is why I select content that best demonstrates how I think and where my expertise creates the greatest value.

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