Retailgentic

Can your AI assistant really shop for you? What happens when the “Buy Now” button isn’t clicked by a person? In this episode, Nekuda CEO Ayal Karmi explains how his company is rethinking payments for a world where autonomous agents act on our behalf.

We talk about:
• The lightbulb moment from a failed pizza-ordering agent
• Why authorization (not just authentication) is the future
• Real-world agent examples: fashi...

In this episode of Retailgenic, Scot Wingo welcomes Ananda Chakravarty, VP of Research at IDC’s Retail Insights Group. Ananda shares his decades of retail and technology experience spanning Monster, Staples, Oracle, Diebold Nixdorf, and Forrester to help break down:

• The real definition of Agentic AI
• How retailers must prepare their data and sites for AI agents
• Why product discovery is ripe for AI-driven transformation
• The ...

In this episode of Retailgenic, host Scot Wingo sits down with Roy Rubin, co-founder of Magento and General Partner at R-Squared Ventures, to explore the future of e-commerce in an AI-driven world.

Roy shares why he believes the next billion-dollar DTC brand won’t even need a website, what agentic shopping means for the future of retail, and how platforms like Shopify and Amazon may get disrupted next.

We also dive into:

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In this episode of Retailgenic, host Scot Wingo sits down with Matt Nichols, General Partner at Commerce Ventures, to unpack the future of agentic commerce, the evolving role of AI shopping agents, and the new infrastructure needed to support them.

Matt shares:

- Why enriched product catalogs will power LLM-driven shopping
- How AI-native checkout layers could disrupt traditional eCommerce
- What retailers and marketpl...

In this episode, Scot Wingo is joined by Forrester retail analyst Sucharita Kodali to dive into the emerging world of agentic shopping and the growing influence of generative AI in commerce. They cover:

- The explosion of retail media networks
- Why marketplaces are making a comeback
- OpenAI’s retail ambitions (and that Instacart CEO hire)
- GenAI adoption across retail use cases
- The rising threat to Google f...

In this episode of Retailgentic, Scot Wingo is joined by Michelle Grant, Director of Strategy & Insights for Retail and Consumer Goods at Salesforce. Michelle brings powerful insights from Salesforce’s massive retail data sets, surveys, and first-hand industry experience.

They dive deep into:

🧠 How Gen Z is driving the adoption of AI shopping agents
📊 Data from Salesforce’s Connected Shoppers Report
🤖 Where AI a...

Welcome to the very first episode of the Retailgentic Podcast, your guide to the fast-emerging world where AI agents meet retail and e-commerce.

In this foundational episode, host Scot Wingo lays out:

• Why AI shopping agents may be even more disruptive than marketplaces
• What “agentic commerce” actually means (and what doesn’t count)
• Who the major players are today — and who’s coming next
• The three phases of the shopping jour...

Welcome to Retailgentic, the podcast where we explore the fast-evolving intersection of retail, ecommerce, and Agentic AI, what we call Retailgentic.

Hosted by Scot Wingo, this show is your partner in navigating a future where AI agents shop on behalf of humans, reshaping everything from payments and checkout to customer loyalty and digital advertising.

In this trailer, we introduce the mission, stakes, and big questions ahe...