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The Doing Business in Bentonville Podcast features conversations with retail leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators. Hosted by Andy Wilson, episodes explore topics like retail media, AI, leadership, supply chains, and omnichannel strategies. These interviews offer fresh insights into the evolving world of commerce and business.

Merchandising for AI: DBB Event Recap

Merchandising for AI: DBB Event Recap

Amanda Wolf and Toby Wily unpack how AI agents and LLMs are reshaping product discovery, sharing tactical strategies for optimizing content across Walmart, Amazon, and Sam's Club to win in the era of agentic commerce.

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Employee Ownership Pays: The Harps Grocery Model

Employee Ownership Pays: The Harps Grocery Model

Competing against retail giants is tough, but Harps Food Stores thrives through a powerful employee ownership model and smart tech. Learn how this 178-store regional grocer uses an ESOP, automated AI inventory, and localized fresh departments to scale without losing its identity.

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Retail Isn't a Network of Stores - It's an Ecosystem

Retail Isn't a Network of Stores - It's an Ecosystem

Optimizing single retail locations creates massive data blind spots that hurt forecasting. Scott Benedict breaks down why understanding the interconnected ecosystem of physical spaces and digital channels is critical for accurate performance measurement and long term retail growth.

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From the Vault: Winning the AI Shopper

From the Vault: Winning the AI Shopper

Friction in shopping kills profit. As consumer search shifts to AI, waiting to adapt means losing market share. A panel of retail experts breaks down agentic shopping, generative engine optimization, and how to structure your product data so algorithms confidently recommend your items.

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Agentic AI - From Experimentation to Orchestration

Agentic AI - From Experimentation to Orchestration

Treating Agentic AI as a fragmented tool instead of a core operating system dilutes ROI. Scott Benedict breaks down how retailers transition from isolated pilots to enterprise wide transformation, coordinating complex workflows across humans and machines while mitigating operational risk.

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Retail is Being Rebuilt from the Ground Up

Retail is Being Rebuilt from the Ground Up

Global demand is easy, but profitable cross-border commerce is an operational discipline. Discover the strategic roadmap to engineer margins, calculate true landed costs, and turn your supply chain into a real-time decision engine to win in the next era of retail.

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