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The next shopper at checkout may not be a person. Agents are starting to do the searching, comparing, and recommending, which means brands now have to win over software before they ever reach a human. Florencia Ardissone, Managing Director at JPMorgan ...

In this conversation Sue McMahon and Christine Russo discuss: Why "Autonomy" is a Dirty Word in Retail (And How AI Fixes It): Merchants and planners naturally resist "black-box" decision-making, as complete, unsupervised autonomy removes human accounta...

My Favorite Quote of the Show:“ It's our secret sauce that we've been using as a differentiator always. So that's what now is op- in open that we can actually help enterprise adapt that at a very different level. As a part of these three products, it, ...

This interview is about transformation. And your you to undersand that you can transform your startup, your career, your projects. When you think you've hit a wall, you can pivot. This is exactly what the founder of ZOOM did when he was at Webex. In 20...

Velia Carboni has been CTO of SharkNinja for two years. In that time she has overhauled the company's core infrastructure, built a data foundation that puts analytical power directly in business users' hands, and launched early LLM partnerships with pi...

Episode title:Accenture's Amal Benichou on New Luxury, the Cans and Cannots, and What the Data Actually Shows Show notes: Luxury is under pressure. The dream is intact but the curtain came down. Customers can see the machinery, and they don't love what...

alesforce is under pressure. The commerce landscape is shifting fast, agentic channels are rewriting how products get discovered and purchased, and platforms that don't adapt risk being left behind. Nitin Mangtani, SVP & GM of Salesforce Commerce Cloud...

If your brand is sitting around waiting to just launch another product, you are already behind. With Toy executives running fashion companies like Richard Dickson, I wanted to sit with Teresa Stack Pearson who is a fashion executive who moved to the CM...

What Just Happened | Justin Honaman, Global Head of Retail, Restaurants & Consumer Goods at AWS For retailers looking to get more of an understanding of Agentic Commerce, this discussion lays it out. AWS is quickly announcing new products and if you ar...

What Just Happened | Episode Recap Christine Russo sits down with Lisa Pisano, Chief Revenue Officer at Knitwell Group, and Heather Gruccio, EVP/Chief Merchandising Officer at Ann Taylor, to talk about what a nearly two-decade partnership with nonprofi...

What Just Happened | Episode Recap Christine Russo sits down with Juan Hernandez Campos, COO of Happy Returns, a UPS company, to dig into one of retail's most expensive and underappreciated problems: returns. The numbers alone are staggering, and Herna...

Why You Need to Listen: Klarna’s Evolution with Milton Pappas In this episode of What Just Happened, creator Christine Russo sits down with Milton Pappas of Klarna to pull back the curtain on how a "buy now, pay later" pioneer evolved into a global fin...

In this episode of What Just Happened, creator Christine Russo sits down with Paul Toms, the Chief Marketing Officer of Wayfair, to dissect the home retailer’s remarkable return to growth. After a challenging period, Wayfair posted a staggering $12.5 b...

Christine Russo sits down with James Hughes, Retail CTO at Verizon Business, for an onsite conversation recorded at NRF 2026, unpacking how AI, network infrastructure, and immersive technologies are actually reshaping retail operations and in-store exp...

What Just Happened went to NRF 2026 in New York City. Christine Russo sat down live at the RELEX booth with Greg Wilson, VP of Field Strategy at RELEX Solutions, to unpack how AI in retail is finally moving from experimentation to real world deployment...