Carrie Shea

Carrie Shea

Carrie Shea leads the Consumer-Driven Industries practice at Blue Ridge Partners, a management consulting firm focused exclusively on accelerating profitable revenue growth. With over 25 years of experience, she specializes in using data, analytics, and AI to unlock growth opportunities for consumer and distribution businesses. She has held senior roles at Kearney, Ipsos, IRI/Circana, and PwC. The full Consumer Industry Commercial AI study is available upon request at blueridgepartners.com.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Retailers Are Spending More on AI Than Other Consumer Companies and Getting Less Back

July 22, 2026 at 12:29 pm

I've spent 25 years working with consumer companies on revenue growth. I've sat in boardrooms where executives present beautifully designed artificial intelligence road maps. I've watched the same executives walk out of those meetings and continue doing exactly what they were doing before. The decks are impressive. The results, especially in retail, are not. We…