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BONUS EPISODE S6E7 - 8 retail trends for 2026 including AI-assisted shoppers, why people are the new luxury, and the grey swans most retailers are ignoring. Casey Golden and Ricardo Belmar spent two days at The Lead Summit in New York City with the operators, founders, and analysts actually running retail right ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 th...

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 prais...

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 cra...

S2E4 Agentic Commerce Is Here: Scot Wingo on How AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Retail What happens when your next customer never visits your website because their AI agent already bought what they needed? And what does it mean for your brand when your product catalog is essentially invisible to the AI doi...

How pride-based leadership unlocks performance, retention, and emotional commitment. This episode of Blade to Greatness dives deep into pride-based leadership with bestselling author and retail culture expert Ron Thurston, whose books, Retail Pride and Human Pride, have reshaped how leaders think about people, p...

S2E6 - Simplify to Lead - Steve Worthy on simplicity, self‑awareness, and leading with conviction In this episode of Blade to Greatness , we sit down with Steve Worthy , founder and CEO of Worthy Retail Global and host of the Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy podcast, to explore why so many retail leaders need...