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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Demand got pulled earlier in the season and oh by the way retailers didn’t have to Discount as steep as they normally do so going into 2020 retailers thought. [11:26] percent in 2020 to grew 5.4% percent in 2020 to grew 5.4% 16:50] The store. November and December sales grew, 3.8 26:04] 20:21 Drew 12.5

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We do a deep dive into the retail industries growth from 2019 through November 2021. If you want to follow along on with all the data, here is a visual recap of retail growth 2020-2021. Aggregate sales for 2019 and the aggregate sales for 2021 and saying how much bigger was 2021 than 2019. PDF Download).

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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

MAY 28, 2021

last year) Burlington – Comps up 20% (shutdown e-commerce Q1 2020) Gap – Comps up 28% (up 13% vs 2YA). Jason: [26:09] Yeah I mean it’s I feel like. 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%

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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. Scot: [5:09] Yeah yeah we’re we’re Pros were 300-plus episodes into this thing and this is the kind of you know Pro level that we deliver on the pod.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Scot: [28:09] So if we kind of you know there’s that famous chart you hate and then we reverted to the mean does this mean we’re kind of back on the meat. Scot: [42:09] Yeah I don’t know Tick Tock could be live stream it’s kind of there’s a stream.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Scot: [2:09] Just kidding everyone do not do that at home and if you do blame jason Yeah. Operating income came in at 6.1%, which is the highest since 2019. We grew 7.7% in 2020. Jason: [1:59] That sounds wildly safe. Jason: [2:05] No you can’t.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 25, 2021

Traditionally Prime Day has been a summer event taking place in July, for example July 15-16, 2019. In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020. 6:09] Official stated reason for This brilliant invented holiday so. This year Prime Day is earlier than usual on June 22-23, 2021.

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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. People are like turning off Mass mandates and it felt pretty good and so the show was sold out the hotel was fully booked and if you if I just popped you on at the trade show for.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Scot: [31:09] You get a network and or you get an ad Network it’s like Oprah giving out ad Networks. [31:15] Eight different retail formats the bulk of them is 500 Whole Foods stores and historically Amazon’s physical stores is the one segment that shrinks every quarter right so going back to Q2 of 2020.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 20, 2021

And it’s 10 percent up from last year which you know in the long run of historical growth rates is a little bit low but we’re getting off of a 33% jump the year before so if you kind of look all the way back to 2019 we’re still. 2020 and 2021.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Scot: [17:09] Wait till you live too two things so wait till you’re working anniversary that’s a always a big day on LinkedIn and then you should put a post up this as I really need an explainer leader explainer video and automated lead generation and I think you’d be very popular. And you know again comping. [34:42]

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Retail Geek

JULY 16, 2021

Kelly: [7:09] Actually I joined right after I joined a couple months after and I didn’t really want to go into the atg product management group but yeah it was it was very close. Kelly: [7:03] Yeah long before so I actually joined. Jason: [7:05] Enter Then you joined Oracle before Oracle acquired atg.

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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. Background. Privacy Law Changes.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

43:09] Again this year so it’s really risky to predict. 6:49] Um I that consumer index doesn’t have a perfect correlation with spending so I don’t spend too much time thinking about it but just to know, that’s a number that had been favorable and is kind of shrinking down.

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