Videos
Why Your Retail Strategy Is Failing (And How to Fix It)
Shoptalk’s Brendan Witcher on retail media math, ideas vs. retail strategy, and the agentic commerce risk in the middle layer. Is your retail strategy just an idea? Brendan Witcher from Shoptalk explains why leaders are being strategically lazy. Amazon owns 76% of retail media. Shoptalk’s Brendan Wi...
One Order, Five Boxes: How AI Cut It to Two (Chris Deck, Deck Commerce)
AI turned a five-box order into two. Deck Commerce CEO Chris Deck explains the order orchestration simulation that cut split shipments by 3X. Recorded live at *RetailClub* AI Festival. Chris's team ran a couple weeks of an apparel brand's inventory and sales data through an AI order orchestration si...
Finding the 'Champion' When No One Has the Title (VIP Connect Recap)
Nobody has "champion" in their title. Vicki Cantrell, CEO of Vendors in Partnership, and former CIO Dave Finnegan explain how retail tech vendors find one anyway. Recorded live at RetailClub AI Festival in Huntington Beach, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden recap VIP Connect, the three-hour Vendors in...
Giant Tiger, Whatnot, Tilly's and More at RetailClub
We recorded interviews live at RetailClub AI Festival in Huntington Beach with leaders from Giant Tiger, Whatnot, GlobalData, Tilly's, and more. This teaser kicks off a run of episodes across all 4 shows of the Retail Razor Podcast Network: The Retail Razor Show, Retail Transformers, Blade to Greatn...
The $10 Trillion Logistics Problem AI Is Solving
Logistics is a $10 trillion industry, and ASU's Prof. Brett Duarte explains exactly where AI in logistics pays off first. Part 3 of our AI supply chain strategy series. Clinical Associate Professor Brett Duarte of Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business closes our three-part series...
Why You Can't Stop Buying: The Retail Trap
In 1995, buying sneakers took 30 minutes and five miles. Today, four seconds. NYT editor *Eric Athas* on what retail deleted when it deleted the wait. Eric Athas is Deputy Editor for Newsroom Development & Support at The New York Times and the author of *Saying No to New,* reported over four years w...
How AI Agents Solve Inventory Management: The New Supply Chain Stack
Brett Duarte of ASU's W. P. Carey School cited Amazon reporting 35% fewer stockouts from AI inventory tools. Here's how AI demand forecasting gets there. Part 2 of our AI supply chain strategy series with Arizona State University moves into operations. Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden ask Professor B...
Under 1% of Companies Get Enterprise Impact From AI (ASU Prof Explains Why)
Under 1% of organizations that adopted AI have seen enterprise-wide impact. Arizona State University supply chain professor Brett Duarte on where AI supply chain strategy breaks. Boston Consulting Group found AI leaders doubling revenue on specific projects and cutting costs 40 to 50%. McKinsey foun...
Walmart's Screens Out-Earned Walmart.com. Then This Happened.
By 2010 Walmart's in-store screens out-earned Walmart.com. *Mike Hiatt,* Walmart's former Director of In-Store Media Networks, tells us what happened next. It's a history lesson that every retail media network leader can learn from and apply! Mike built the *Walmart Smart Network,* the retail media ...
Why Retailers Won't Tell You Their Real Problem
80 to 85% of AI projects fail inside the company that runs them. Steve Worthy, Founder of Worthy Global Retail and a former retail executive, explains what retail tech founders keep getting wrong. Steve returns to Blade to Greatness with Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden to break down the accelerator ...