S1:E6 The Power of Knowledgeable Store Teams In the final episode to Season 1 of the Retail Razor: Data Blades , hosts Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden welcome Georgina Nelson , CEO of TruRating . Georgina discusses the significant impact well-informed store teams have on retail performance. Highlighting a global sporting goods retailer's success, Georgina reveals that 90% of shoppers acknowledged receiving multiple product options from staff, leading to a 27% increase in average shopper spend. The conversation emphasizes the importance of personalized customer interactions, cross-selling, upselling, and the tangible benefits of sales and product training. Insights are derived from TruRating’s innovative approach to gathering customer feedback directly at the point of sale, showing how it supports retailers in enhancing store performance and creating holistic shopping experiences. Subscribe to the Retail Razor Podcast Network: https://retailrazor.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter : https://retailrazor.substack.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://go.retailrazor.com/utube Chapters: (00:00) Show Intro (01:12) Georgina Nelson - The Strategic Advantage of Well-Informed Store Teams (09:40) Show Close Meet your hosts, helping you cut through the clutter in retail & retail tech: Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voice for 2025 and a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021 – 2025. Thinkers 360 has named him a a Top 10 Thought Leader in Retail and AGI , a Top 50 Thought Leader in Management , Careers , and Transformation , and a Top 100 Thought Leader in Agentic AI and Digital Transformation. Thinkers 360 also named him a Top Digital Voice for 2024 and 2025. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation and the Retail Cloud Alliance . He was most recently the partner marketing leader for retail & consumer goods in the Americas at Microsoft. Casey Golden , is the North America Leader for Retail & Consumer Goods at CI&T. She is a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2023 - 2025, and Retail Cloud Alliance advisory council member. Obsessed with the customer relationship between the brand and the consumer. Once immersed in fashion & supply chain tech, now slaying Franken-stacks & building retail tech. She is also the Founder of Luxlock , a cross-channel customer experience management platform. Includes music provided by imunobeats.com, featuring Tech Lore from the album Beat Hype , written by Heston Mimms, published by Imuno.
