Choose Don’t Chase Your Career - Shannon Flanagan on choosing your career instead of chasing it; the break, the pause, and the rewrite. Shannon Flanagan has run more than 80 Power of We Wednesday interviews at Retail Women in Tech. Not one of those women had a linear career path. All of them hunting for jobs inside a system that only...

In this episode, April Sabral reframes retail leadership coaching as an operating shift from managing to coaching, anchored by an 80/20 listening test that reveals whether you truly coach. She explains how daily huddles and phrasing like “walk me through your process” keep teams in the room and create measurable positivity through th...

On 280,000 Pickers: The eGrocery Fulfillment Math Nobody Fixed, Hank Crawford and Paul Harker join Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden to examine why centralized and micro fulfillment failed and how a remote-operated, purpose-built robot can be deployed inside existing supermarkets. They explain the buy-and-operate model that shifts cost...

Cole Moir on what replaced the CMO role - the four hires that matter, and how he'd manage budget for a $200 million brand. 31% of Fortune 500 companies don't have a CMO role right now. Starbucks, Walgreens, and General Motors are three of them. That number is the cleanest way to describe what's happened to the CMO role.

NRA Chief Economist Dr. Chad Moutray on what restaurant technology really does to staffing. Everyone assumes restaurant automation means fewer jobs. The National Restaurant Association’s data says 94% of operators cut zero: their restaurant technology investments over the past two to three years did not permanently eliminate a single...

NRA Chief Economist Dr. Chad Moutray on restaurant employee retention, managers, and the first 90 days. In Part 2 of our Hiring & Staffing series, Dr. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist at the National Restaurant Association, breaks down the numbers behind restaurant employee retention - when a new hire becomes “net positive,” why the fir...