Between the Aisles

Factual data without deep customer obsession is just a spreadsheet, and culture without financial discipline is just a social club. In today's hyper-competitive business landscape, blending operational precision with genuine human connection is the only sustainable way to capture market share and defend margins. Former Walmart and Sam's Club Chief Operating Officer Jim Haworth joins the...

Corporate strategy looks clean on a slide deck, but the actual execution of a business plan is entirely determined by human behavior. Many companies waste millions trying to force an established operational blueprint onto a completely different market without assessing local realities. We sit down with John Owen, Senior Vice President of Headquarter Client Development for Walmart at Acosta Group,...

Company culture is the lifeblood of sustainable growth, yet it is often treated as a corporate buzzword rather than an operational strategy. When scaling an organization at breakneck speed, the risk of losing your core values increases exponentially. In this episode of Between the Aisles, legendary retail executive Mel Redman sits down to discuss how genuine operational culture serves as the ultim...

Sam’s Club is a $93 billion business, but the story of how it was built still feels strangely untold. We sit down with Russ Robertson, one of the original Sam’s Club managers, a Blue Coat Award of Excellence recipient, and the author of Building Sam’s Club With Regular Folks, to get a ground level view of what made the early warehouse club model work and what today’s retailers can still learn from...