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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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...

Store Traffic & Conversion Rates - Retail's Most Misunderstood Metric
The Retail Razor ShowJuly 15, 2026x
9
00:48:51

Store Traffic & Conversion Rates - Retail's Most Misunderstood Metric

Mark Ryski on why stores convert up to 70% of store traffic while online only converts 3% and Amazon only 10%. 77% of shoppers who walked out of a big box store without buying told exit interviewers t...

Pragmatic AI for Retail’s Frontline: Tokenless & On-Device
The Retail Razor ShowJune 13, 2026x
8
01:00:25

Pragmatic AI for Retail’s Frontline: Tokenless & On-Device

A Zebra ZONE 2026 recap on pragmatic AI , on-device AI, super apps, and giving store associates their day back. In this special bonus episode of The Retail Razor Show, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden ...

Retail Trends for 2026 - 8 Signals From The Lead Summit
The Retail Razor ShowMay 29, 2026x
7
00:49:38

Retail Trends for 2026 - 8 Signals From The Lead Summit

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 Summi...