The Retail Razor Podcast Network

S6E6 Campari America's Allison Varone on mindful drinking, Gen Z, and the new rules of beverage brand building Everyone keeps repeating that Gen Z doesn't drink. The data tells a far more interesting story, and this episode unpacks it. In this episode of The Retail Razor Show, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden sit down with Allison Var...

Future-Proof Skills - Ron Thurston on the human-centric skills AI can't replace. Everyone is talking about how AI is transforming retail. Far fewer people are talking about the future-proof skills that technology will never replace, and according to Ron Thurston, almost all of these human-centric skills start on the sales floor.

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. Cameras, smart shelves, electronic shelf labels, computer vision, RFID, autonomous robots. The investment list has been the same for three years running. So why are on...

What corporate keeps getting wrong about the store floor, told by someone who actually ran it. In this episode of Retail Transformers, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden sit down with Kit Campoy, a 25-year retail store leader, author of The Retail Leader's Field Guide, and the writer known across the industry as the Voice of the Frontli...

S2E8 Andy Laudato, COO of The Vitamin Shoppe, on the leadership philosophy behind every high performing team. Andy joins hosts Ricardo & Casey to unpack the "be a diode" leadership philosophy. A simple but powerful idea that's at the heart of building a high performing team in retail and beyond. That means praise, recognition, & cred...

S6E5 What Retailers Must Know About Prompt Injection, Rogue Bots & AI Agent Security Before It's Too Late. Welcome to the new reality of agentic commerce, where autonomous AI agents shop, transact, and negotiate on behalf of consumers and brands — and where cybercriminals are already waiting to exploit every crack in the system.