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The Jason & Scot Show - E-Commerce And Retail News

Join hosts Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and 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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Nov 30, 2022

EP299 - Thanksgiving Week 2022 with Rob Garf of Salesforce

A discussion of Thanksgiving Week 2022 from a retail perspective with Rob Garf, Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. This is Robs' fourth time on the show, having previously been on episodes 110248, and 282.

Thanksgiving week 2022 will go down as one of the most complicated holiday weeks on record. With covid impacts still in place, a global economic crisis, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, new retailer discounting practices, and new consumer behaviors we have a lot to unpack.

This episodes covers a wide range of topics around the most important shopping week of the year. We make liberal use of real-time data from Salesforce Shopping Insights HQ, which tracks how 1.5+ billion consumers are shaping shopping trends. You can see a real-time holiday dashboard, powered by Tableau so you can interact with the data yourself on the Salesforce Holiday Insights page.

Episode 299 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday November 29th, 2022.

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Nov 1, 2022

EP298 - Amazon Q3 Earnings

Episode 298 is a recap of Amazon's Q3 2022 Earnings Report.

Episode 298 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday October 28th, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Oct 6, 2022

EP297 - GroceryShop 2022 and News Episode 297 is a recap of the GroceryShop trade show in Las Vegas, and the Consumer Brands Executive Summit in Colorado Springs.

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others).

We cover the Prime Early Access sale and its potential impact on the overall holiday season.

Episode 297 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday October 4, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Sep 27, 2022

EP296 - Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik 

Episode 296 is an interview with Matt Kubancik (@mattkubancik), CEO and Co-Founder of Guardian Baseball. Matt is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur who was the founder of Street Moda, Co-Founder of SKU Vault, and most recently Co-Founder and CEO of Guardian Baseball.

Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon.

Guardian Baseball is an early adaptor of Buy with Prime, and shares in the interview, that they would migrate off Shopify if necessarily to keep using Buy with Prime. He also discusses a number of the current limitations with the Buy With Prime offering.

Episode 296 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday September 23, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Aug 20, 2022

Episode 295 is a breakdown of Walmart and Target Q2 earnings, as well as the US Department of Commerce retail sales data for July.

Episode 295 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday August 18, 2022.

 

Aug 1, 2022

EP294 - Amazon Q2 Earnings

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Episode 294 is a breakdown of Amazon’s Q2 2022 earnings.

Episode 294 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday July 31, 2022.

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Jul 7, 2022

EP293 - E-commerce leadership changes and news

Episode 293 previews Amazon no good, dirty, rotten, Q2. Including why Amazon's much hailed SCOT software may have led them astray (not a surprise given the name). We also discuss the recent leadership changes at Amazon, Google, Pinterest, and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Episode 293 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 30, 2022.

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Jun 13, 2022

EP292- Quarterly Recap

Sorry for the delay since our last show. We took a beginning of summer hiatus, and Jason upgraded to a new knee!

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the NYC Google HQ, for Zenith Basecamp.

Key Topics discussed:

  • Amazon’s rate of growth declined in Q1, what lies ahead for them.
  • Impact of App Tracking Transparency (ATT) on advertising platforms
    • Shopify vs. Facebook
    • Retail Media Networks
  • Q1 2022 US Department of commerce data and trends
  • Audience questions (including buy now pay later)

If you’d like to follow along, the audience could see this deck during the discussion:

Episode 292 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday June 8, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Apr 29, 2022

Amazon released their Q1 earnings for 2022 on Thursday April 29th. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

Key Topics:

  • Declining macro economics
  • First quarter 1P sales were down year-over-year for the first time in two decades, as it had to comp against a very strong Q1 2021 which was elevated by the pandemic.
  • AWS getting a strong boost from the pandemic.
  • Ads continue to quietly be a bright spot for Amazon
  • Andy Jassy's first annual shareholder letter
  • Amazon's new "Buy With Prime" offering for DTC sites.

Episode 291 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 29, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Apr 1, 2022

EP290 - Shoptalk 2022 Recap

ShopTalk held it's first in-person show since 2019, May 27-30th in Las Vegas. The show made the move from the Venetian to the Mandalay Bay. Nearly 10,000 attendees joined more than 600 exhibitors at this years show. Making ShopTalk one of the first industry events to truly feel like it did prior to the pandemic, and living up to the billing as the retail industries reunion. Shoptalk has truly established itself as the preeminent digital commerce event in the US.

In this episode Jason and Scot recap all the major keynotes, trends, and themes from the show. If you wren't able to attend, this show will catch you up. If you did attend, they episode will help you write that event recap you owe the rest of your team!

Episode 290 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 8, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Mar 19, 2022

EP289 - ShipBob Co-Founder Dhruv Saxena 

Dhruv Saxena is the co-founder and CEO of ShipBob, Inc. ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands.

We discuss ShipBob's origin story, how the e-commerce fulfillment industry has evolved, as well as the challenges and implications of Amazon and Shopify's various fulfillment initiatives.

Episode 289 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday March 18, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Mar 11, 2022

EP288 - News and Q4 Earnings Reports 

News

Q4 Earnings Reports

Winners

  • Dicks Sporting Goods
  • Walmart
  • Target

Neutral

  • Best Buy
  • Ulta
  • Kohls
  • Gap
  • Nordstrom
  • Ralph Lauren

Losers

  • Dollar Tree
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Macy’s

Episode 288 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday March 10, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Feb 18, 2022

EP287 - Amazon Supply Chain Deep Dive with Marc Wulfraat

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Marc Wulfraat is President of MWPVL, a global supply chain and logistics consulting firm, and one of the foremost experts outside of Amazon, into Amazons supply chain.

In this episode to do a deep dive into all the elements of Amazon's supply chain, how it compares to other third party logistics providers, and most importantly if and how other retailers should think about competing against the enormous advantage that Amazon's logistics infrastructure provides

Episode 287 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday February 17, 2022.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Feb 4, 2022

EP286 - Amazon Q4 Earnings 

Amazon released their Q4 (and full year) earnings for 2021 on Thursday February 3rd. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

Key Topics:

  • Amazon North American Revenue grew 18.4% in 2021, which was just above the industry average of 17.9%
  • Amazon has broken out their ad revenue for the first time. In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. Ready Jason’s Forbes Article here.
  • Amazon is raising the rates for Amazon Prime from $119 to $139 per year.

Want to learn about Amazon’s sneaky fulfillment advantage (Amazon Key for Business)? Check out our YouTube video here

Episode 286 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday February 3, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Jan 21, 2022

EP285 - 22021 Full Year and Holiday Data Deep Dive

The US Dept of Commerce December Advanced Retail Sales Data is out, which gives us a full look at 2021 and the 2021 holiday season. So Episode 285 is a data deepdive into 2021.

If you want to follow along, we've made a deck with all the data available at https://retailgeek.com/2021-commerce-recap

Data Sources
US Retail & E-Com Sales Data: US Dept of Commerce
E-Commerce Estimates: eMarketer
Retail Foot Traffic Data: Placer.ai
Web Traffic Data: Similar Web
Holiday Estimates: Adobe, Salesforce, Mastercard

Episode 285 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday Jan 20th, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

Jan 7, 2022

EP284 - 2022 Annual Predictions h

2021 Predictions Recap

Jason:

  1. Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes
  2. Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No
  3. Grocery E-Com > 10%  someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes
  4. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No
  5. Retail Media > $20B Yes

Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. No

Jason Total Score: 3 of 5

Scot:

  1. Amazon move to same day prime by opening a huge wave of neighborhood DCs (near DSPs) Yes
  2. Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP No
  3. Shopify marketplace No
  4. ‘zero friction addiction’ sticks – I’ve seen 30-40% repeated a lot, I think it’s 60-80%. commerce penetration says at 16% or better in 2021. Yes
  5. spac/ipo? Dnvb wave Yes

Bonus: post-covid anti-consumerism/materialism wave No

Scot Total Score: 3 of 5

We have a tie, including the tie-breaker. Here are some relevent links:

2022 Predictions

Jason:

  1. NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022.
  2. Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry
  3. Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022.
  4. Amazon opens more than 100 Amazon Fresh grocery stores
  5. Last Mile evolves Veho, X-Delivery, shipium, or Instacart gets aquired

Scot:

  1. Amazon launches a competitor to Shopify webstore, possibly via a headless solution on AWS
  2. Amazon wins ultra-fast delivery. Gopuff, Gorilla, or  Jokr goes out of business in 2022
  3. Metaverse gets lots of buzz but no revenue
  4. Livestream commerce goes mainstream in the US 
  5. Fabric gets acquired

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Episode 284 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, January 6th, 2022.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

 

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