The Retail Razor: Data Blades Podcast
de Ricardo Belmar | Top Retail Expert
Proving AI ROI - 64% of Retail Leaders Can't
Sobre este podcast
Retailers face an endless stream of challenges, but the right data is the key to unlocking smarter decisions. We cut through the clutter in complex retail industry research to reveal actionable insights & strategies.
Each episode, top retail analysts & industry experts break down critical findings in consumer behavior, agentic commerce, retail media, AI for frontline retail, operational efficiency, or customer experience into clear, practical strategies executives can use today.
If you’re looking to make informed management, marketing, & operational choices backed by real-world data, this is the retail podcast for you!
Stay Sharp. Be Data-driven. Harness AI.
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About your hosts
Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voice for 2025 & a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021–2026. Thinkers 360 has named him a Top 10 Retail, Top 25 AGI & Careers, Top 50 Agentic AI & Management, & Top 100 Digital Transformation & Transformation Thought Leader, plus a Top Digital Voice for 2024 & 2025. He was most recently the director partner marketing for retail & consumer goods in the Americas at Microsoft.
Casey Golden, is the North America Leader for Retail & Consumer Goods at CI&T, and CEO of Luxlock. She is a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2023-2026, and a Retail Cloud Alliance advisory council member.
Episódios
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- Proving AI ROI - 64% of Retail Leaders Can't · 32 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 17Proving AI ROI, Agentic commerce, pilot purgatory, and a project called Do Not Replace Bob, live from Shoptalk Fall with Perficient. 64% of retail and consumer leaders don't…
- One Order, Five Boxes: How AI Order Management Cut It to Two · 22 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 16Deck Commerce CEO Chris Deck on AI order orchestration, the missing execution layer, and why order management drives growth. One online order. Five boxes. One customer. Chris…
- The $10 Trillion Market: AI in logistics and the governance that decides whether it pays off · 18 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 15Arizona State University’s Brett Duarte on AI supply chain strategy, part 3: AI in logistics, control towers, network design, and supply chain governance. Logistics is a $10…
- 35% Fewer Stockouts: What AI Demand Forecasting Changes in Supply Chain Operations · 17 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 14Arizona State University's Brett Duarte on AI supply chain strategy, part 2: demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and safety stock Get your forecast wrong in one…
- Every AI Supply Chain Strategy Ran a Pilot. Under 1% Got Enterprise Impact. · 22 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 13Arizona State University’s Brett Duarte on AI supply chain strategy, part 1: procurement, supplier risk, and contract intelligence Boston Consulting Group found AI leaders…
- 94% of Restaurants Cut Zero Jobs to Technology · 19 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 12S2E12 NRA Chief Economist Dr. Chad Moutray on what restaurant technology really does to staffing Everyone assumes restaurant automation means fewer jobs. The National Restaurant…
- The 32-Day Pay Off: Restaurant Employee Retention · 16 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 11S2E11 NRA Chief Economist Dr. Chad Moutray on retention, managers, and the first 90 days A new restaurant hire costs you money until roughly day 32. For a manager, it’s 72. If…
- Restaurant Labor Market 2026 - The $5,000 Cost of Understaffing · 25 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 10S2E10 NRA Chief Economist Dr. Chad Moutray on the 2026 labor market, 122% turnover, and the price of running a shift short One missing employee can cost a restaurant $3,000 to…
- The Connected Supply Chain - Why Retail's Profit Winners Are 555% Better at BOPIS · 30 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 9S2E9 Greg Buzek of IHL Group on RFID, Computer Vision, Edge Computing, and the Returns Opportunity with AI Buy online pickup in store sounds like a solved problem. It’s not. In…
- The Augmented Associate: Why AI-Ready Retailers Are Hiring More · 32 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 8S2E8 Greg Buzek of IHL Group on the AI Hiring Gap the Retail Industry Got Backwards For two years, every conference stage and every headline has told you the same thing. AI is…
- Shelf Intelligence Reality Check: Why Only 9.1% of Retailers Are Ready · 49 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 7S2E7 Greg Buzek Breaks Down Shelf Intelligence - Computer Vision, RFID, and the Network Nobody's Talking About Every retailer says they're investing in shelf intelligence…
- Agentic AI Has Arrived: What Retail & CPG Marketers Must Do Next · 26 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 6S2E6 Scaling Agentic AI, GenAI, & redefining roles while building governance for the autonomous marketing era Agentic AI isn’t coming — agentic AI is already here, and it’s…
- Retail Data Readiness: Why Retail & CPG Can’t Scale AI · 22 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 5S2E5 The Truth About Customer Data Silos and What It Takes to Fix Them In this episode of Data Blades, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden sit down with Bruce Richards, Global…
- Data, AI & the Customer Experience Gap - Rewriting the Marketing Playbook · 25 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 4S2E4 The Truth About Retail Customer Experience - What Adobe + Incisiv Discovered In this episode of The Retail Razor: Data Blades, Ricardo and Casey kick off a three‑part…
- Proven Data-Driven Retail Tactics for Higher Average Transaction Value · 21 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 3S2:E3 From Service to Sales: How Retailers Can Increase ATV with Gareth Johns Retail store sales teams can no longer rely on delivering reactive service if they want to increase…
- Is Retail Loyalty Dead? Winning Today’s Savvy Shoppers with Gareth Johns · 28 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 2S2:E2 Retail Loyalty Unveiled: Epic Insights from Gareth Johns and TruRating Retail loyalty is no longer about points and discounts. It’s about experience, personalization, and…
- Boost Retail Conversion: Gareth Johns on Data-Driven Strategies That Drive Sales · 22 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 1S2:E1 Revolutionize Your Retail Strategy with Data-Driven Conversion Insights Season Two of The Retail Razor: Data Blades opens with a sharp focus on the retail metric that…
- Sharpening Retail Strategies | AI, Customer Experience, Retail Media, and Employee Impact · 4 min · Temporada 2 Episódio 1Season 2 Trailer - Data Blades Returns: AI, CX, and Retail Media for Executive Leaders Welcome to Season 2 of The Retail Razor: Data Blades—the podcast that slices through…
- Retail Insights Unveiled: Maximizing Store Team Potential · 11 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 6S1:E6 The Power of Knowledgeable Store Teams In the final episode to Season 1 of the Retail Razor: Data Blades, hosts Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden welcome Georgina Nelson…
- Shaping the Checkout Experience: The Power of Consumer Perception · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 5S1:E5 Revolutionizing the Checkout: How Choice Impacts Purchase Behavior In this episode of the Retail Razor Show: Data Blades, hosts Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden are joined…
