EP110 - Holiday 17 Hot Take with Rob Garf of Salesforce.com

Rob Garf (@retailrobgarf), is the VP of Industry Strategy and insights at Salesforce Commerce Cloud.  His team has access to insights from all the Salesforce Commerce Cloud clients (formerly Demandware).  We have a broad ranging conversation about what he's seeing this holiday season and trends he expects for next year.

You can read more about his teams insights here:

Salesforce Reveals Black Friday Was the Busiest Digital Shopping Day of the Holiday Season

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Episode 110 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on November 30th 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

Tamara Gaffney is the Director of the Strategic Insights Engagement Group at Adobe.  Tamera joins us to discuss the holiday e-commerce results from Black Friday through Cyber Monday (Cyber 5).  Tamera has access to anonymous, and aggregated data from more than 5,000 companies worldwide that use the Adobe Digital Marketing Cloud (including Adobe Analytics formerly known as Omniture), which represents one of the largest samples of the overall e-commerce industry available.  Her team publishes useful insights based on that data throughout the year.

EP107- Listener Questions

Listener Questions

Q1: Brands selling direct on their own site

Shawn Cheng What do u think about a brand to run their own brand store, not through market place such as eBay, Amazon or Alibaba?

Jamie Dooley Hi Scot & Jason: Have you heard of any brands seeing true success building a D2C E-Comm business through their own websites? (On a path to do 10-20% of sales and/or 8-9 figures in annual sales?). D2C seems like D2C was a big trend a year ago but I am not hearing about success stories where sales justified significant spend.

Scott Silverman Do you think a new brand without an e-commerce site or digital presence could be built by selling on Amazon? Secondarily, should manufacturers selling on their own e-comm sites, shut them down and just sell via retailers?

Q2 Mobile Conversion Gap

Ari Nahmani Mobile conversion rate... retailers are getting more and more of their web traffic from mobile, but those users are half or a third as likely to convert. They don’t seem to be coming back on desktop. So what’s happening? We see across the board where YoY traffic is flat, revenue is down due to the device mix over-indexing on mobile YoY. How do we explain this behavior? Where are those users purchasing if ecommerce growth is up?  I’m seeing his trend on several client sites and I recall one of your shows that this trend was discussed.

Q3: Omni-Channel Fulfillment

Alexandro Volakis order sourcing in an omnichannel network. how do you decide where its best to ship from?

Q4: Singles Day in the US

Julia Ptock How do you think about Singles Day (11.11.)? Are there some retailers who take part at this event in the USA? Amazon is focusing on Cyber Week (Cyber Monday & Black Friday) but doesn't show interest in Single Day. Do you have an idea why?

Q5: Toys R Us impact on Holiday Promotions

Melissa Burdick How will the bankruptcy of Toys R Us impact Amazon this Holiday? Is it going to be a bloodbath in pricing this Holiday with TRU stores cutting prices and Amazon price matching (and then closing stores shortly after holiday)? https://www.usatoday.com/.../toys-r-us-store.../683762001/

Amazon News

• Amazon opening permanent device shops inside of some Chicago WholeFoods stores.  Jason visited one under construction.
• Amazon lowers prices on marketplace sellers products.  It looks like primarily 3000 beauty SKU's at the moment.
• More Amazon Private Label:
  • Furniture: 
    • Rivet - “stylish and versatile mid-century modern furniture and décor".  Mid-century modern aesthetic, focus on small space solutions, 1 year warranty, prime exclusive
    • Stone & Beam - Higher end price points.  modern farmhouse aesthetic, 3 year warranty.
  • Athlesure
    • Rebel Canyon - Low price point, Men's and Woman's lounge clothing.
    • Peak Velocity - Higher price point active wear (Under Armor competitor), prime exclusive
    • GoodSport - Men's and Woman's moisture wicking apparel
  • Baby
    • Mama-Bear - Relaunched diapers

Amazon Private Label articles:

• Bloomberg piece on Amazon sportswear w/ L2
• Glossy covers Amazon Gift Guide (which focuses on exclusive Amazon products)

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Episode 107 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday November 9, 2017.

EP106 - Amazon's Q3 Results Hot Take

This episode is a hot take of the Amazon Q3 Results as well as a few misc pieces of news

• Apple opened it's new midwest flagship "town square" store in Chicago
• Amazon opened a new "Pickup and Return" retail concept in Chicago
• For those interested in todays update who want more, we have deep dive episodes on three topics:
  • EP024 – Amazon Deep Dive
  • EP089 – Amazon Acquires Whole Foods Hot Take
  • EP093 - Prime Day Hot Take

• Breakdown of Q3 Results
  • Core commerce/marketplace
  • Forecast going forward
  • International
  • Prime membership
  • Whole Foods
  • Ad revenue
  • Amazon Alexa/Echo
  • Headcount
  • AWS
• Amazon received licenses to distribute pharmaceutical equipment in 12 states, which could be a precursor to Amazon entering the pharmacy business.  The news immediately drove down stock prices of traditional pharmacy companies. In coincidental news, CVS announced a bid to acquire Aetna for $66B.

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Episode 106 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, October 29th 2017.

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EP0105 - Stitch Fix IPO Hot Take

This episode is a hot take of the Stitch Fix IPO Filing:

• How IPO's Work / Jobs Act
• $1B Exits in E-Commerce
  • Zappos - $850m 2009
  • Quidsi/diapers - $545m -2010
  • Kiva - $775b 2012
  • Trunk Club - $350m 2014
  • Jet.com - $4b  8/16
  • Dollar Shave club - $1b 7/16
  • Chewy.com - $3b 4/17
  • Zulily - went public with $2.7b
• Stitch Fix Background
  • Offering
  • History
  • Financing History
• Stitch Fix financial performance
• Stitch Fix Customer Value / Churn
• Personalization and Machine Learning
• Company size and roles
• Conclusion

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Episode 105 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, October 22nd 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

An interview with Bryon Colby (@bcolby6), SVP of Digital Commerce at Cornerstone Brands. Cornerstone Brands is a billion-dollar omni-channel retailer comprised of multiple leading home and apparel brands including Frontgate, Ballard Designs, Garnet Hill, Chasing Fireflies, Grandin Road, Improvements, and TravelSmith. Cornerstone is a business unit of HSN, Inc.

We spoke with Bryon about his background, where digital commerce sits in the Cornerstone organization structure, how Cornerstone benefits from it's catalog heritage, the challenges and opportunities of customized products, and the future of personalization.

Bryon mentioned a custom product configurator for furniture on Ballard Designs, which can be found here.

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Episode 104 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, October 11th 2017.

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EP103 - Amazon Private Label Deep Dive

This episode is a deep dive into Amazon's Private Label activities:

• Framework for Amazon Private Label Brands
• Amazon's History in Private Label
  • Amazonscape
• Advice for Brands and Retailers
• Update on Amazon Private Label Marketshare from 1010data
  • Mary Meeker State of the Internet (slide 75 is the one discussed)

Special thanks to Samir Bhavnani and Tim Wilson from 1010data. for providing their data and insight for this episode.

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Episode 103 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday October 4, 2017.

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EP102 - Code Commerce, Shop.org, and News 

Code Commerce

Code Commerce (the first stand alone commerce event from Recode) was Sept 13 and 14 in New York City.

• Andy Dunn - CEO of Bonobos
• Laura Albert - CEO of Williams Sonoma  
• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Fanatics Executive Chairman Michael Rubin
• Pinterest President Tim Kendall
• A Tour of an Amazon Prime Now facility in New York on West 34th

Shop.org 

Shop.org was September 25-27 in Los Angeles, CA.

• Marc Lore - President of Digital at Walmart
• Adam Grant - Author of the Originals
• Scott Galloway - NYC Professor, L2 Founder, and Author of "The Four"
• Tech Lab

Amazon News

• Amazon looking for a second HQ location. Scot thinks Austin, Jason suggested Houston or Detroit.
• Amazon launched a new set of Alexa based devices
• Amazon renewed - Certified pre-owned products
• Amazon opening 6 new Fulfillment Centers in the US (and 40 in India):
  • Oregon - Salem (8/28) 
  • Ohio - North Randall 
  • NY  - Staten Island (9/6)
  • Michigan (9/14) 
  • Oregon - Portland (9/18) 
  • Ohio - Euclid (9/18)
• Alexa in BMW
• Kohls taking Amazon Returns

Other News

• Walmart buys Parcel - NY same day deliveries
• Plated acquired by Albertsons - Meal Kits heat up
• Ikea acquires TaskRabbit - Help deliver and assemble Ikea products
• Jet launching private label "everyday essentials" line
• Wish $30m NBA sponsorship
• Holiday Forecasts - Ranging from 3.5% - 4% (Jason thinks that might be optimistic unless we get highly promotional)

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Episode 102 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday October 4th, 2017.

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EP101 - Indochino CEO, Drew Green

An interview with Drew Green (@Drew_Green), CEO and of Indochino.  Indochino is one of the largest made to measure menswear brands globally with active customers in 50 countries. We spoke with Drew about his previous e-commerce startup Shop.CA as well as Indochino's business model, Amazon strategy, and the future of the indsutry.

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Episode 101 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, September 14th 2017.

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EP100 - Get to Know Our Listeners

To celebrate our 100th episode, we decided to put the focus on the most important element, the listeners.  So we invited three of our most active listeners to be on the show.

Radz Mpofu @RadzMpofu

Kevin Harmon @imadness Facebook 

Ted Fifelski  @ted_gives

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Episode 100 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, September 7th 2017.

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EP099 - Tulip Retail CEO Ali Asaria and News

Amazon News

• Wholefoods - Amazon Day 1 buzz
• Amazon getting deeper into programmatic ads
• Amazon building a FC on top of what was once the largest mall in the US, in Randall, OH
• Amazon is #1 app with millennials via Comscore

Other news

• CPG's face the threat of digital disruption
• Warren Buffet - Retailers and Brands in an epic battle
• Walmart partners with Google home (See Scot on the Today Show talking about it here)

Digital Retail Newsmaker

Our Digital Retail Newsmaker segment, features an interview with Ali Asaria (@aliasaria), CEO and Founder of Tulip Retail. Tulip Retail is a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores.  They recently raised $40M in venture capitol, lead by Kleiner Perkins.

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Episode 99 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, August 31th 2017.

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A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events.

EP098 - Zola CEO/Co-Founder Shan-Lyn Ma

An interview with Shan Lyn Ma (@shanlynm), CEO and Co-Founder of Zola. Zola is re-inventing the Wedding Registry for the modern couple.

In this episode we discuss Shan Lyn's previous experience including Yahoo and Gilt Group.  As well as Zola's business model and potential growth opportunities.

Shan mentioned a recent article written by Zola investor, Alex Taussig (@ataussig) of Lightspeed: Finding product/channel fit at Zola.

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Episode 98 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, August 22nd 2017.

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EP097 - Industry News

Congratulations to friend of the show Billy May, on his new appointment as CEO of Sur La Table.  Billy was a guest on episode 23.

Amazon News

• Amazon Instant Pickup, allows pickup 2 minutes after ordering popular items, on 5 college campus's.
• Amazon stock briefly went down after President Trump attacked them on Twitter.
• Amazon Treasure Truck expanding to 5 new cities (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta).
• Amazon Private Exclusive Labels taking off according to 1010Data.
• Amazon is rumored to be entering the ticket sales business
• Rumor of Amazon "Anytime" messaging App
• Amazon was mentioned in 15% of the S&P500 earning calls this quarter

Other News

• US Dept of Commerce reported that e-commerce grew 16.3% in Q2  - half of that was from amazon.  Fastest growth since early 2012 - 12.1% of total sales.
• TJX sales up 6%
• Gap earnings slightly up; they announce new BOPIS test.
• Dicks Sporting Goods, CEO, Ed Stack:
• "There's a lot of people right now ... in retail and in this industry in panic mode," Stack added. "They seem to be in panic mode with how they're pricing, and we think it's going to continue to be promotional, and at times irrational, going forward."
• Stack said he noticed heavier promotions and price cuts particularly on athletic apparel, electronics, and hunting, fishing and camping gear beginning around Father's Day this year. "And it continued to be very promotional — not only from retailers but also from some of the brands on a direct-to-consumer basis."
• Walmart Online grew 60% y/y
• Target acquired that same day delivery company Grand Junction
• Alibaba 56% y/y growth vs 49% projected- Adj EBITDA margins of 50%.  Jack Ma talks about New Retail concept (such as Hema Grocery store)

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Episode 97 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Saturday August 19, 2017.

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EP0096 - Listener Questions Part 2, and News

Amazon News

• Amazon now showing pics of delivered packages in app
• AU fulfilment center
• Amazon hiring day (50k new jobs)
• Lots of new FCs coming
• Sears to sell Kenmore on Amazon and build Alexa into products
• New Amazon Hub Lockers
• Forcing Free Returns on 3p Sellers
• New Amazon  handbag private label launched - The Fix (Prime exclusive)
• Stripe processing some Amazon orders

Listener Questions

Michelle Grant via Twitter:
Do you think Nike is one of the few brands that have the leverage to get Amazon to remove 3P inventory?

Steve White:
Hey guys, when I talk to brands they have this sense that they are going to be 'pushed out' or off the platform as Amazon develops products in their respective categories- my sense is that Amazon has never acted like a bully in that regard, just adds additional competition- thoughts?

Parker Block:
Who is right, @retailgeek ? Are disruptive forces going to drive retail consolidation (per @debweinswig) or fragmentation (per @klobaugh)?

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Episode 96 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday August 3, 2017.

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EP095- Listener Questions and Amazon Earnings

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Amazon Q2 2017 Earnings Summary (PDF from Amazon)

• Amazon reported a beat on revenue but a miss on earnings
• Revenue came in at $37.96 billion, beating street estimates of $37.18 billion.
• EPS was only 40 cents per share, missing street estimates of $1.42 per share.

Listener Questions

• Kiri Masters:

  I'd love to hear Jason and Scot talk about their global e-commerce outlook. Amazon in particular seems keen to expand aggressively in international markets. Does the growth opportunities match the regulatory / operational complexity for brands? Interested to get your take.

• Josh Tarasoff:

  Hi Jason and Scot--What is your take on Amazon's strategy behind buying products at full retail price from marketplace sellers? Here is an article: http://www.cnbc.com/.../amazon-new-fba-program-buys....

  Thank you. I love the show.

• Anup Gosavi

  Hey guys... love your show. Would love to see your take on when/ if brands will be active on messaging platforms like Messenger, Kik. etc.

  Is it actually a better channel than email? Is there a signal in all that noise? Opportunities/ risks etc. Thanks!

• Lauren Quaile Tonkin:
  
  I'd love your thoughts on autoreplenishment. Why have other retailers not adopted this tactic broadly (beyond Amazon and Target)? Do autoreplenishment models differ globally? What non-intuitive products/categories do you think can benefit from an autoreplenishment strategy? Thank you! Keep up the great work.

• Ben Kates:
  off-price retail offline and online

• Gareth Hanes (in uk):
  Hi Jason & Scott, enjoying your podcasts from "the other side of the pond" in the UK.

  I would be interested in your take on the recent (in the UK anyway) growth of products sold on Amazon by Chinese 3P merchants (presumably manufacturers) using FBA.
  I have noticed transformational changes in some product groups where new SKUs and brands have gained strong traction very quickly (propelled forward by a combination of agressive pricing, AMS & FBA).

  There's been a lot of talk on your podcasts about Amazon "own label", but this "manufacturer to consumer" model would appear to be a much more of a imminent threat to incumbent domestic brand owners.

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Episode 95 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 27, 2017.

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EP094 - News http://jasonandscot.com

Amazon News

• Will regulators look at Amazon Whole Foods Acquisition? Scott Galloway says yes, Jason & Scot say no.
  Real reason Nike began selling on Amazon
• Amazon launches Spark visual discovery platform
• Jeff Wilke, Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer gave rare public comments at Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference
• Amazon Meal Kits
• Rumor of Amazon "Anytime" messaging App
• Amazon launches home installation service
• Amazon launches New Brand Pages

Alibaba

• Launches new physical Hema Supermarket concept in China

Other

• Brandless raises $50M to launch new CPG "Brand"
• ApplePay & SamsungPay on PayPal
• Everlane to open permanent physical store in San Francisco
• Newstore raises $50m  for new E-Commerce Platform
• Walmart opens 2.2m ft sq Fullfillment center in Florida

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Episode 94 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday July 19, 2017.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. Episode 94 is a recap of the weeks news.

EP093 - Amazon Prime Day Hot Take

Amazon Prime Day was July 11, 2017.  In this episode we give our hot take on this Amazon created sales holiday.

• Goals for Prime Day
• History of the Holiday
• Results for 2017 Prime Day
• Jason & Scot's conclusions from this years event
• Interview with Jamie Dooley Head of e-commerce at Dorel Juvenile Group to discuss their Prime Day experience

Amazon Prime Day Recap press release

Amazon Deep Dive EP24 Podcast

Full interview wth Dorel Juvenille Group, Jamie Dooley - EP86

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. 

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Episode 93 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

EP092 - Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive

"We're in the middle of an obvious disruption right now: machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a renaissance, it is a golden age. We are solving problems that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades." - Jeff Bezos

This episode is a deep dive into all the use-cases for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in retail.

Insight Generation

• Analytics - Google Automated Insights
• Multi-Variable Regression Testing (Correlation) 
• Targeting - Best Audience / Next Best $
• Social Listening / Sentiment
• Campaign Attribution / ROI

Business Acceleration

• Inventory Management/Forecasting
• Merchandise Compliance
• Checkout - such as Amazon Go
• Product Design - such as Stichfix
• Tagging/Unstructured Data
• Fraud
• Price/Promotion Optimization
• Logistic Optimization
• Drone Delivery

Customer Engagement

• Natural Language Assistants
• Virtual Agents
• Guided Selling
• Visual Search
• Search
• Recommendations 
• Fitment/Return Avoidance
• Personalization
• Loyalty/Retention

AI Vendors Discussed

General:

1. 1. IBM Bluemix Watson 
   2. Google Cloud Platform 
   3. Microsoft Azure
   4. Amazon AWS  -  including DSSTNE (pronounced “destiny”), the Amazon recommendation engine

Retail Specific Vendors:

1. Twiggle - Search
2. Sentient.ai - Visual Search/ Personalization/ Recommendations
3. Clarifai.com - Visual Search / Video
4. Simbe Robotics - “tally” Robot / Shelf Audit / Inventory
5. Focal Systems - Computer Vision / Inventory
6. Luminoso -  Analytics

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Episode 92 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday July 10, 2017.

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EP091 - Boxed Wholesale Head of Reengagement Nitasha Mehta

An interview with Nitasha Mehta, Head of Reengagement and Boxed Wholesale. Boxed is bringing the wholesale club experience to e-commerce, is based out of Edison, NJ and has raised $132m in capital.

In this episode we discuss Amazon's Whole Foods acquisition, disruption of CPG, private label, mobile, customer acquisition tactics, and customer retention tactics. 

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Episode 91 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday June 29, 2017.

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EP090 - Nordstrom.com Ken Worzel and Danny Ryder

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An interview with Ken Worzel, President of Nordstrom.com and Danny Ryder, EVP, Online Merchandising & Experience.  Nordstrom is the #17 retailer on the IR500 list.   They are one of the most storied retailers in North America, founded in 1901.  Today they have 354 stores in 40 states and Canada (including full-line stores, Nordstrom Rack, Jeffrey Boutiques, Truck Club, and HauteLook).

In this episode we discuss Mobile, Fashion Retail, Amazon, and Retail Disruption.

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Episode 90 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday May 23, 2017.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP089 - Amazon acquires Whole Foods Hot Take

Amazon agreed to spend $13.7 billion to buy the grocery store chain Whole Foods Market Inc., which has more than 450 stores.  The grocery category is a $795B opportunity in the US that has largely been untouched by digital.  

• Terms of the deal
• Wall Street reaction
• Impact on the grocery category
• Winners and Losers

Amazon-Scape that Scot mentions on the show

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Episode 89 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday, June 16, 2017.

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EP088 - PwC Partners Steven Barr and Byron Carlock

Steve Barr (@Steven_J_Barr) is a partner in the Consumer Markets practice at PwC, and sits on the NRF Board of Trustees.  Byron Carlock is a partner who leads the Real Estate practice at PwC.  We sat down with Steve and Byron to talk about the current state of the US retail market and what the future may look like.

In this interview, we discuss, Mallageddon, Omnichannel, Grocery, Mobile, and of course Amazon.

PwC Consumer Markets Homepage

PwC Real Estate Homepage

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Episode 88 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, June 15, 2017.

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EP087 - UBS Equity Research Analyst Michael Binetti

An interview with Michael Binetti, Equity Research Analyst at UBS, covering apparel and footwear brands, department stores and speciality retailers.  His coverage universe includes:   Abercrombie & Fitch Co,, American Eagle Outfitters Inc, Chico's, Coach, Express Finish Line, Foot Locker Inc, Gap, Hanesbrands, J. Jill Inc, JC Penney Co ,Kohl's Corp, L Brands , Lululemon, Macy's, NIKE, Nordstrom, PVH Corp, Ralph Lauren Corp, Ross Stores Inc, TJX ,Under Armour Inc, Urban Outfitters and  VF Corp.

In this interview, we discuss Omnichannel, Mallageddon, Brands vs Retailers, and of course Amazon.

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Episode 87 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. 

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

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EP086 - Dorel Juvenile Group Bob Land and Jamie Dooley

An interview with Bob Land is the VP Consumer Engagement and Jamie Dooley is the Head of E-Commerce at Dorel Juvenile Group.  Dorel Juvenile is the world’s leading juvenile product company and has over 11k employees globally. They have a portfolio of 11 brands include Cosco and Safety 1st.

In this interview, we discuss Dorel's to to market strategy, including:

• Wholesale
• Direct to Consumer
• Marketplaces
• Physical/Popup DTC
• B2B

In particular Dorel is a hybrid seller (1p and 3p) on both Walmart and Amazon's marketplaces.

Jamie will be one of the speakers at "Amazon & Me" an all day workshop on Tuesday June 6th at IRCE, hosted by Scot Wingo.

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Episode 86 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 24, 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

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EP085 - FutureCommerce Joint Podcast Part 2

Brian Lange (@brianjlangeand) Phillip Jackson (@philwinkle) are the hosts of futurecommerce podcast. 

In this first of it's kind, Co-Podcast Jason & Scot team up with Phil & Brian to record a two-part podcast.  Part 1 can be heard on futurecommerce.  This is part 2.

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Episode 85 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday May 11, 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.