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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.

When AI Stops Asking Permission

When AI Stops Asking Permission

Agentic commerce is shifting retail from AI recommendations to autonomous buying. Learn how leaders must prepare with machine ready product data, accurate pricing and inventory, clear governance, and APIs that keep trust, accountability, and margins intact as AI agents make decisions.

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Ep. 137 - This Program Helps Arkansas Entrepreneurs Scale

Ep. 137 - This Program Helps Arkansas Entrepreneurs Scale

Ozark Retail Accelerator helps Arkansas CPG founders scale from local sales to major retailers like Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Kroger. Learn packaging, pricing, trade math, working capital, and buyer pitching, plus key dates for the Bentonville kickoff, virtual cohort, and demo day.

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Preparing Retail For AI Shopping Agents

Preparing Retail For AI Shopping Agents

AI agents are becoming the new shoppers. Learn how to prepare your ecommerce brand with machine readable product data, clean metadata, trusted pricing and promos, inventory and delivery accuracy, and better analytics so AI can confidently recommend your products.

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When AI Becomes the Shopper

When AI Becomes the Shopper

AI agents are becoming the shoppers. This episode explains how agentic commerce changes ecommerce priorities, why structured product data and real time inventory matter most, and how brands can win when machines choose what gets recommended.

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Ep. 8 - Omnichannel Packaging Power

Ep. 8 - Omnichannel Packaging Power

Packaging is a channel. Matt Woolley of Designsteins shares how smart packaging, storytelling, and fast execution drive shelf and screen success, from PDP assets and micro video to sustainability tradeoffs and speed to market.

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Ep. 10 - Agentic Shopping Takes Over

Ep. 10 - Agentic Shopping Takes Over

Retail media went full funnel in 2025. This episode breaks down CTV, commerce media, in store screens, AI agentic shopping, measurement, and bold 2026 predictions to help brands plan smarter across the entire shopper journey.

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Retail’s Secret Weapon: Accelerators

Retail’s Secret Weapon: Accelerators

Why retail accelerators are reshaping how brands scale. Learn how execution, compliance, logistics, and digital merchandising now matter more than invention, and why retailers use accelerators to build reliable partners and spot trends early.

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Ep. 133 - Trust, Data, and the AI Shelf War

Ep. 133 - Trust, Data, and the AI Shelf War

How AI agents are reshaping retail and the digital shelf. Learn what brands need to win at Walmart as bots browse and buy, why trust and clean product data matter, and how generative engine optimization, structured content, and AI monitoring drive recommendations.

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