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Strategically Lazy: Why Retail Strategy Fails
In this live episode from Shoptalk Fall, Ricardo Belmar talks with Brendan Witcher about why many leaders mistake ideas for strategies and how to move from strategically lazy thinking to vetted, numbers-driven planning. They dissect the retail media landscape (Amazon 76%, Walmart 6%, leaving 18% for everyone els...
One Order, Five Boxes: How AI Order Management Cut It to Two
In this Data Blades episode, Deck Commerce founder Chris Deck reveals how AI order orchestration acts as the missing execution layer to drive growth, sharing a live simulation where one order packed into two boxes cut split shipments threefold and reduced shipping zones by four. He explains why human-in-the-loop...
Retailers vs Retail Tech Vendors - No Champion in Their Title
Vicki Cantrell and Dave Finnegan pull back the curtain on how retailers and retail tech vendors actually make decisions, revealing that neither side truly understands the other and that traditional sales pitches miss the mark. Recorded live at the RetailClub AI Festival, the conversation covers why leading with ...
The $10 Trillion Market: AI in logistics and the governance that decides whether it pays off
This episode with Brett Duarte reframes AI in logistics around a $10 trillion industry, exploring how tactical use cases like route optimization and control towers pair with strategic network design and governance to drive real ROI. It covers trusted data sources, platform choices, and the rise of citizen develo...
The New Thing Gap - Saying No to New
The New Thing Gap - What retail took away when it took away the friction, with NYT editor Eric Athas. In 1995, buying a pair of sneakers cost you 30 minutes and five miles of driving. Today it takes about four seconds. New York Times editor Eric Athas spent four years reporting on what that trade did to people, ...
35% Fewer Stockouts: What AI Demand Forecasting Changes in Supply Chain Operations
In this episode, Brett Duarte breaks down how AI driven demand forecasting and inventory optimization work together to reduce stockouts and improve turns, with Amazon’s 35% drop in stockouts serving as a benchmark. He walks through the forecasting toolkit—extrapolation, regression, machine learning, and large la...
Every AI Supply Chain Strategy Ran a Pilot. Under 1% Got Enterprise Impact.
In this first installment of Data Blades' AI supply chain mini-series, Brett Duarte of ASU breaks down why AI pilots frequently stall at enterprise scale, focusing on procurement, supplier risk, and contract intelligence. He identifies two universal blockers— fragmented infrastructure and adoption challenges—the...
The In-Store Retail Media Screens That Out-Earned Walmart.com
This episode tells the rise, fall, and revival of in-store retail media through the lens of Mike Hiatt, who built Walmart’s Smart Network from a 27-inch ceiling display into a high-revenue in-store powerhouse that once out-earned Walmart.com. It dives into the internal frictions between marketing and merchandisi...
The Accelerator Mindset & What Retail Tech Founders Get Wrong
Steve Worthy on The Accelerator Mindset - founder fit, product market fit, and the question retail buyers are really asking. Steve Worthy is back on Blade to Greatness to break down what he calls the accelerator mindset - how growth happens inside a retail business, and why the gap is almost never the product. S...
Career Reinvention - Choose, Don’t Chase, Your Career with Shannon Flanagan
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 ins...