A Fireside Chat with Bob Hardester former Schnuck Markets CIO

Bob Hardester—former CIO at Schnuck Markets and a driving force behind the first chain-wide deployment of autonomous robotics in grocery—joins Simbe’s Strategic Advisory Board. In this conversation, he shares how purposeful innovation guided Schnucks’ digital transformation, why shelf intelligence became a foundational capability for improving store execution, and how retailers can compete by aligning technology, culture, and customer expectations.