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Data Blades
Cutting through the clutter in data-driven retail insights.
Retailers face an endless stream of challenges, but the right data can be the key to unlocking smarter decisions. The Retail Razor: Data Blades cuts through the clutter in retail insights by slicing through complex retail industry research to reveal actionable insights that help retailers optimize customer experiences and business operations.
Hosts Ricardo Belmar & Casey Golden welcome top retail analysts & industry experts, each bringing a single, impactful data-driven insight based on research. Whether it's consumer behavior, operational efficiency, or tech innovation, every episode breaks down critical findings into clear, practical strategies retailers can use today.
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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, a Top 25 AGI & Careers, a Top 50 Agentic AI & Management, & a Top 100 Digital Transformation & Transformation Thought Leader, plus a Top Digital Voice for 2024 & 2025. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation and the Retail Cloud Alliance. 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. After a career on the fashion and supply chain technology side of the business, Casey is obsessed with the customer relationship between the brand and the consumer and is slaying franken-stacks and building retail tech!
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