{"podcast":{"title":"The Resilient Retail Game Plan - retail insights, retail trends and best practices","slug":"the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764","podcast_index_feed_id":1259764,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-resilient-retail-game-plan/","website_url":"http://www.resilientretailclub.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a3b16192-5a1a-4edc-bd1e-a32b1105f0de/4TOgRwQzRR0HhnHII9yZ0fUu.jpg","author":"Resilient Retail Club's Catherine Erdly","episode_count":309,"summary":"Welcome to the Resilient Retail Game Plan - giving you retail insights, retail trends updates and best practices for any retailer, from Shopify stores to bricks and mortar units. I'm Catherine Erdly, veteran retail expert and consultant and also founder of The Resilient Retail Club. This is the podcast for anyone wanting to start, grow, or scale a profitable small medium or large product retail business. Aimed at independent retailers, e-commerce brands, indie sellers, online shops, independent boutiques, shopkeepers, brands and makers. I'm dedicated to breaking down the concepts and tools I’ve gathered from twenty years in the retail industry in the UK and USA and showing you how you can use them in your small business.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T14:21:10.118294+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764"},"episode":{"title":"Retail Stock Ordering: Two questions every product business must answer","slug":"retail-stock-ordering-two-questions-every-product-business-must-answer","published_at":"2026-05-14T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764/retail-stock-ordering-two-questions-every-product-business-must-answer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764","url":"http://www.resilientretailclub.com/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e94c5c45-f0a0-417f-b4d4-e2a0f5a062b5.mp3","summary":"\"How much should I order?\" sounds like one question. It's actually two — and most product business owners only ever answer one of them. (This episode features a free download resource at http://resilientretailclub.com/order ) Hi, I'm retail strategist and founder of Resilient Retail Club , Catherine Erdly . In this episode, I'm breaking down the critical difference between product-level stock ordering (the tactical \"how many of this line\") and business-level stock planning (the strategic \"what can I afford overall\"). Drawing on my time as a buyer at Paperchase and the frameworks in my book Tame Your Tiger , I'll explain why forecasting apps, Shopify Sidekick , ChatGPT and Claude can all give you the right answer to the wrong question — and how that slowly turns a healthy business into a cash-hungry \"tiger\". In this episode: Why most stock forecasting tools assume you have unlimited cash The simple reorder calculation that still matters What \"the tail\" is Three better questions to ask before you place a single order The supermarket scanner analogy that makes stock budgeting click If you're constantly reordering but never feel on top of your stock, pause and plan with this one. 🐅 Tame Your Tiger — my book on stock, cash flow and building a calmer product business 💬 Come and say hi on Instagram: @resilientretailclub Prefer to watch podcasts? Here's mine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwFwdhK_WMJvXntxKLZj83Inz1fFNAN2P Mentioned in this episode: Faire 50% off - use code 'Resilient50'","meta_description":"\"How much should I order?\" sounds like one question. It's actually two — and most product business owners only ever answer one of them. (This episode feat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":780,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764/episodes/retail-stock-ordering-two-questions-every-product-business-must-answer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resilient-retail-game-plan-retail-insights-retail-trends-and-best-practices-1259764/retail-stock-ordering-two-questions-every-product-business-must-answer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}