The Retail Razor Show

The Retail Razor Show

Cutting through the clutter in retail strategy, retail technology, and executive leadership.


Welcome to The Retail Razor Show—your go-to podcast for bold strategic insights and real-world innovation in the retail industry. We spotlight the trends transforming retail, from AI-powered solutions and retail media networks to the human connection that drives exceptional customer experience and maximizes employee satisfaction. Hosted by RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert, Thinkers360 Top Thought Leader and one of NRF’s 2025 Retail Voices, Ricardo Belmar, and RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert and retail tech startup founder, Casey Golden.


Episodes feature:

⦿ Executive leaders from top retail brands

⦿ Influential industry analysts and retail strategists

⦿ Startup founders driving innovation in retail technology

⦿ Case studies of successful retail tech deployments

⦿ Straight talk on strategy and innovation


Whether you’re a retail executive, frontline store team leader, tech innovator, product junkie, or customer experience champion, this show delivers actionable strategies to help you lead your business and your teams with clarity, adopt emerging technologies, and stay ahead in a constantly evolving retail industry.


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About your hosts.

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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Retailers vs Retail Tech Vendors - No Champion in Their Title
The Retail Razor ShowOctober 06, 2026x
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00:22:48

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 sa...

The New Thing Gap - Saying No to New
The Retail Razor ShowSeptember 15, 2026x
12
01:13:11

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 a...

The In-Store Retail Media Screens That Out-Earned Walmart.com
The Retail Razor ShowSeptember 01, 2026x
11
00:57:39

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 po...

280,000 Pickers: The eGrocery Fulfillment Math Nobody Fixed
The Retail Razor ShowAugust 18, 2026x
10
00:54:30

280,000 Pickers: The eGrocery Fulfillment Math Nobody Fixed

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 rem...