Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

4:08] And it’s been really fun each quarter we release our shopping index which is available on salesforce.com built on Tableau and it’s interactive so you can slice and dice it by vertical and by geography and it really helps. percent in 2020 to grew 5.4% percent in 2020 to grew 5.4% 16:50] The store.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Episode 254 is a breakdown of Walmart and Shopify Q4 2020 earnings reports, a recap of 2020 sales data from the US Dept Commerce, and Amazon News. 2020 Sales Data. US Dept of Commerce released it’s retail data for December, which gives us a full picture of 2020, as well as the Q4 e-commerce data. versus 3.5%

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Net positive ebit has but they basically have had a net loss every year except 2019 when they broke even. 8:26] You know you like if you look at 2018 you said hey they sold 270 million and they lost 22 million on it in 2019 they sold 370 million and they broke even. So what’s a little worrisome about that is. [8:26]

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020. 8:15] But if we compare April of 20 21 to April of 2020 retail sales were up a whopping forty six percent. Perry was up 200 and or I’m sorry 727 percent from April of 2020.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

1:24] And just to set it up the you know in my world of start-up land it has been very hard to get an IPO done so there’s been a couple post coated and like late 2020. Jason: [23:08] Do you want a little bit of a grapefruit or all of a grape. Jason: [25:08] The computers won’t eat.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 251 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2020 predictions. 2020 Recap – Predictions made on episode 204. 2020 Predictions Recap. 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

6:08] Startup automation things that could bring automated picking to store fulfillment or small fulfillment centers or. Jason: [35:26] Yeah so I’ll give you a yes for that I do think a lot of the instant delivery companies like pulled out of markets or flat went out of business or left the US in 2020 so I think that’s fair.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Operating income came in at 6.1%, which is the highest since 2019. 18:08] But he pushed it out to 2025. Scot: [24:08] Yeah. We grew 7.7% in 2020. That represents 14% year-over-year growth. So that’s good to see. Jason: [24:11] Yeah.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

And I thought actually that’s a choice now because in 2019 you either went or you didn’t do the business. And in 2020 it had to be video. I don’t know I might go so Amazon invented the Bluetooth speaker that’s interesting but but you. Benedict: [42:06] Reporting invented the clock radio.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

trillion dollars of stuff that’s almost 10% more stuff than we sold in 2020. [28:42] 28:42] 36% more stuff than we sold in 2019 so everybody talks about how hard the last two years have been and how challenging and difficult and that’s all true. From from January through April in the u.s.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [5:08] Those are all good skills but congratulations I know it’s non-trivial ever to get people to have their trust in you and invest and then in this climate in particular I’m sure. Jason: [4:54] Oh my God this episode of the podcast is now like officially worth it just for that that’s a pro tip.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We cover e-commerce sales in November 2021 vs 2020 and 2019. 20/20 and I’d also love to know how he did versus 2019. Jason: [24:29] Yeah just just to sort of echo that point Walmart told me that in 2019 they sold a billion dollars worth of turkeys on Thanksgiving and this year they sold 10 billion dollars worth of turkeys.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

It wouldn’t have felt any different than e-tail 2019 felt to me so I think people were like frankly pretty excited about getting back together. Scot: [5:08] Yes so one of the things it’s been a busy week for Amazon so. Scot: [35:08] Finally hit its stride after I got out of the scene.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jason: [12:08] Yeah so I think this is a super appealing service, Amazon has a slight credibility problem that they’ll have to overcome and historically they they’re pretty good at overcoming those. Mark Zuckerberg zwei like priorities from from 2019 f8 so it’s not. And you know again comping. [34:42]

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

last year) Burlington – Comps up 20% (shutdown e-commerce Q1 2020) Gap – Comps up 28% (up 13% vs 2YA). Ulta – US Comps up 65.9% (up 7% from 2YA) Costco – US Comps up 18.2%, e-commerce up 41.2% Dollar General – US Comps down 4.6%; (up 17.1% Digital up 82% vs 2 YA. Digital now 40% of total sales.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

1:00:08] My key takeaways for everyone is it’s going to be a very lumpy like the averages will be interesting we should all follow them but but every. Scot: [38:06] Yeah in the Auto World we’re having a huge problem here where there’s a chip shortage and then. [38:14]

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