Mass Relators

JUNE 20, 2022

“Kroger’s new hub in Miami-Dade County is an innovative program that demonstrates how business leaders are leveraging technology to provide important services and job opportunities,” said Daniella Levine Cava, who has been mayor of Miami-Dade County since 2020.

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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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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

After analyzing the store’s performance and customer feedback, Dollar Tree refined the concept before rolling out an additional 32 such stores in the second half of 2020. It currently operates about 50 combination stores housing both Dollar Tree and Family Dollar merchandise under one roof, blurring the line between the chains.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Jason: [10:06] They need to change that by the way. 21:06] Um like how many people did you hire right like you did you you didn’t add 61 percent to their their staff commensurate with that growth. Jason: [25:06] Yeah yeah finally be able to let Kylie on the show and so she’ll stop bugging us.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

trillion in 2020. NRF’s original projection was made when there was still considerable uncertainty about consumer spending, vaccine distribution, coronavirus infection rates and additional fiscal stimulus prior to passage of the American Rescue Plan Act. trillion and $4.56 trillion, up from $4.02 trillion to $1.13 trillion.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

million jobs held by women have been lost since February 2020, with nearly 2 million women leaving the workforce altogether, Amazon expects that at least 75% of the participants in the program will be women. During the first 16 weeks, participants work remotely from their homes and are provided child and elder care assistance when needed.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

Morris joined Walmart in February 2020 from Adobe, where she had worked for 17 years and ultimately served as chief human resources officer and executive vice president of employee experience. Donna Morris. A native of Ottawa, Canada, she graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor of arts in political science.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 16, 2021

from March of 2020. from Jan-Mar of 2020. from March of 2020. 19:06] Yeah that’s Alaska territory right there. But then what’s interesting he’s kind of goes and tries to make a does the math on the the annual impact and uses the last year 2020 as the. March retail sales were $556,935B, up 26.9%

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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: [5:06] That’s a we call that a teaser for a future episode. But then the growth in 2021 over 2020 was 24%. Scot: [1:23:04] Yeah far away.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 25, 2021

In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020. Jason: [3:06] One of my favorite charging accessory companies has been like banned from Amazon so that like there was less for me to choose from this year. The length of the event has been slowly expanding since 2015, so it is now two days long. Marker 03.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Jason: [5:06] 11 episode too short so that’s a good Pro tip yeah so lots of lots of good TV it’s been you’re gonna have some good binge-watching win and if you ever do get some free time. Jason: [17:06] Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s going to be featured in like Friday the 13th part 37.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

In the late winter of 2020, when the current pandemic was still a tragedy about to happen, Doug McMillon met with two senior Walmart executives, both women, in Tennessee. The conclusion is obvious: While most U.S. The result, today, speaks for itself. A final thought. They were there to discuss other matters.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

Scot: [13:06] Because Jeff is just like oh Jason’s challenge me now the gauntlet is down. Jason: [17:06] Yeah I did tell him I was expecting like fancier suits in a bigger Booth a detail and he seems like he’s not spending the money on that stuff it’s. Scot: [12:53] I remember you saying it was pretty much impossible.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Like that’s looking like a pretty good Trend that scale starting to help them with their profitability but then in 2020 where they had a lot of extra costs from covid and as we’ll talk about in a bit they’re somewhat store. So what’s a little worrisome about that is. [8:26]

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [1:06] Yeah but the other way to think about it is that it’s Christmas in October both because retailers are desperately trying to pull holiday sales and but also because Apple finally release the new Macbook Pros that you and I have been waiting for. Jason: [58:06] Happy Commercing! So and it’s a very. [49:23]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

And in 2020 it had to be video. 19:06] Five different chains and so there is a Tesco truck and a car do truck a Safeway truck and the sainsbury truck. Benedict: [42:06] Reporting invented the clock radio. And I thought actually that’s a choice now because in 2019 you either went or you didn’t do the business.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021. Taylor: [22:06] Well you know I think the it’s it’s a good question the the. [22:17] Jason: [9:58] And again like this still means e-commerce is almost certainly growing faster than brick and mortar.

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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] Jason: [40:13] Smart people can disagree and us so you see the shape again you know again 2020 accelerated e-commerce 2021 still did better although slower and so far in 2022 we’re doing better again.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

16:06] That way I have a hypothesis that that dramatically put a crimp in there, they’re grocery e-commerce sales although in a lot of places in the country groceries are delivered by fresh not by Whole Foods so this quarter they also announced that they’re adding a delivery fee even if you’re a Prime member.

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

2020, 2021, and 2022 were the greatest three years in the history of retail. Scot: [28:06] Coolest. Jason: [1:06:08] Kirkland is bigger globally than Unilever. And these guys, you know, publish monthly estimates of retail sales in a bunch of categories. Like we mailed like $6 trillion in economic stimulus. Scot: [28:08] Cool.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Scot: [17:06] Yeah. We grew 7.7% in 2020. So that’s a pretty meaningful cost reduction. [16:45] It’s pretty good. They’re actually profitable now. Just saying they’ve been profitable a long time. So those were those three crazy outlier years.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 18, 2021

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (CPRA) California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Safari (19% share) 3P cookies blocked as of March 2020 Firefox (4% share) 3P blocked as of Sept 2019 Chrome (64% share) will block 3P January 2022. Here is everything you need to know. Background.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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] Scot: [56:00] Will they miss this quarter and if you miss this quarter you’re just going to get worse the next quarter Seth. Jason: [56:04] Exactly exactly.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

Rationalizing the stores there was way too much discount so there’s a lot of work to do, but I got really excited about the opportunity and wound up agreeing to stay on as exact chair in January 2020. Scot: [1:05:06] Sounds good we really appreciate taking time and good luck with the new Venture sounds really exciting.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Jason: [13:06] They’re so sad Paulo is a slightly more East so for me from Chicago it’s two hours ahead for you they’d be one hour ahead of you. Scot: [12:55] Ankle and then how was the flight there and back there in ours there in our time zone right but you but it’s kind of a long flight they’re in.

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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). Jason: [5:06] Yeah well a couple of That’s So a whether Jeff realize it is it or not he could only is the bond villain in this scenario. Dollar General – US Comps down 4.6%; (up 17.1% Digital up 82% vs 2 YA.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. Jason: [37:06] So your third one is metaverse lots of demo videos no Revenue. Scot: [1:06:07] Yep I think again.

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Retail Geek

JULY 16, 2021

39:18] If you look at it we it Commerce tools and you know folks in the mock Alliance we’re not really competing based on feature function we’re competing based on our architecture. [39:28] They like all these other Enterprise tools would benefit from a lot of the same.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you want to follow along on with all the data, here is a visual recap of retail growth 2020-2021. Scot: [14:06] Yet Health and Beauty one because Aaron was zooming like the makeup sales shot way up so it’s got to be a you know it was e-commerce. In those 23 months, the retail industry grew 22%, historically fast growth.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Scot: [10:06] He has way better hair than you and I together times a hundred he has good hair he’s got CEO here. million users at the end of 2020, and the reason that that is interesting is because, Ali Baba has 779 million which means pin duo duo has more users in China than Alibaba has in China.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We cover e-commerce sales in November 2021 vs 2020 and 2019. Rob: [1:06] Hey Scott Jason it’s great to be here as always happy holidays. First mile issues, last mile issues, inflation, winning and losing categories, predictions for December. Episode 282 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, November 30th, 2021.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Episode 249 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Monday, December 7th, 2020. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 249 being recorded on Monday December 7th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Scot: [17:06] Yeah it feels like it for sure, all right so my first thing I always like to kick off with an Amazon prediction so my Amazon prediction last year was that we would move to same day Prime by opening a huge wave of neighborhood DC’s. Jason Total Score: 3 of 5.

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Retail Geek

MAY 13, 2021

I want to say like a almost equally credible news organization the Telegraph and London like into 2020 reported that Bill Gates had bought like a 650 million dollar yacht, I don’t know if you remember this but it was kind of like a meme for for a month and it turned out to be totally untrue.

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