The Retail Tales
Where Artificial Intelligence meets Retail
A podcast that's exclusively focused on exploring the possibilities at the intersection of Retail and AI
Artificial Intelligence meets Retail
With 9700+ subscribers, The Retail Tales (TRT) podcast exclusively focuses on exploring the possibilities at the intersection of Retail and AI. It covers a wide array of topics on that intersection - including enterprise value and governance of AI for retailers, ethical and responsible application of AI to solve retail signature issues, opportunities and threats for AI in retail, and many more.
The podcast is hosted by Saurabh Vijayvergia, who is an industry expert with 19+ years of experience in driving top-line growth, margin optimization, and business model transformation for retailers, using an AI-first mindset.
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S3EP01: Decoding Agentic AI in Retail
Guest: Dr. Shawn DuBravac
Is Agentic AI the biggest transformation retail has ever faced? AI is no longer just helping retailers make better decisions. It is beginning to make decisions on their behalf and that shift changes everything. In the first episode of Seaso
Computer Vision for Margin Optimizaton
Guest: Joe White
What if the cameras already inside retail stores, warehouses, and corporate offices could tell retailers what's going wrong — right now, not tomorrow? That's the core question, our host, Saurabh explores in this episode with Joe White , CEO
The AI Use Case Treadmill Is Real
In this episode, Saurabh opens with a story about an that will feel familiar to many retail leaders — a senior executive who is exhausted. Not from the meeting, but from the AI use case treadmill. Two years. Dozens of pilots. A growing back
Your Host
Saurabh Vijayvergia
US Retail AI Strategy and Engineering Lead and Partner at Deloitte Consulting
Saurabh Vijayvergia is a Retail AI strategy and engineering leader in Deloitte Consulting's retail and consumer products practice. In this role, he partners with CXOs and executive leaders of retail clients on top-line growth, customer acquisition and retention, and bottom-line optimization, by adopting an AI-first mindset across the retail value chain.
With more than 19 years of global consulting experience in the Consumer industry, he focuses on solving clients' signature issues across the retail value chain.
