Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Episode 279 is breakdown of Amazon, eBay, Shopify, and Snap Q3 2021 earnings, and a discussion of Rent the Runway’s IPO. October 28th, 2021. A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. We also discuss the Rent the Runway IPO. Episode 279 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday. Transcript.

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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] Rob: [15:05] Overall holiday for 2021 was nine percent but that’s Global so I’d have to go back to see what it was with the US.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — Citing an accelerating economic recovery, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has raised its retail sales forecast for 2021. trillion in 2020. The nation’s largest retail trade organization now projects that retail sales will grow between 10.5% and 13.5%, up from its February forecast of 6.5% to 8% growth. trillion to $1.13

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Episode 284 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2021 predictions. 2021 Predictions Recap. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. commerce penetration says at 16% or better in 2021. commerce penetration says at 16% or better in 2021. Jason Total Score: 3 of 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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Episode 274 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday September 1st, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 274 being recorded on Wednesday September first 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 25, 2021

In episode 268 is a recap of Amazon Prime Day 2021 featuring David Spitz, CEO of ChannelAdvisor. He joins us this week to share ChannelAdvisor data from Amazon Prime Day 2021. In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020. In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020.

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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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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. Episode 264 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 19, 2021. 8:15] But if we compare April of 20 21 to April of 2020 retail sales were up a whopping forty six percent.

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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

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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Retail Geek

APRIL 16, 2021

from March of 2020. from Jan-Mar of 2020. from March of 2020. Episode 260 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday April 15, 2021. 19:06] Yeah that’s Alaska territory right there. March retail sales data from the US Department of Commerce is out. March retail sales were $556,935B, up 26.9%

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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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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

Look at November and December together and kind of understand what happened in holiday and then it also obviously lets us Wicked January through December and start talking about, 20:22 as a whole year which lets me retire all my 2021 talking points so so that was exciting. Scot: [23:36] Recap of what what did we learn.

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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%.

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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] 29:59] Even ahead of 2021 so you hear all this news about how like. Oh man the rate of growth has slowed we grew so much in 2021 and now we’re only growing a little bit and doom and gloom and all these things.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

more than 20 21 largely because 2021. so, basically Walmart slightly out performed the retail industry and two of the three years and underperformed retailing 2021, but solid growth across all three years and then Walmart is one of the nice retailers that breakout their e-commerce growth separately which. Average retail growth is 4.1

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Episode 278 is the worldwide release of Adobe’s Holiday Shopping Forecast for 2021. In this episdoe we get the very first look at Adobe 2021 Holiday Shopping Forecast. October 14th, 2021. 2020 and 2021. Taylor: [22:06] Well you know I think the it’s it’s a good question the the. [22:17]

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Episode 258 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Monday March 29, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 258 being recorded on Monday March 29th 2021 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

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.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Scot: [17:06] Yeah. We grew 7.7% in 2020. We grew 13.6% in 2021, that’s the best year of all times, and we grew another 8% in 2022. So that’s a pretty meaningful cost reduction. [16:45] It’s pretty good. They’re actually profitable now.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

Episode 261 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Wednesday April 21, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode a 261 being recorded on Wednesday April 21st 2021 that’s a lot of twenty ones I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo.

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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

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. I was fortunate that I have the ability to do this but I basically gave myself 2021 off. Matt: [1:05:11] Thanks guys.

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Retail Geek

MAY 13, 2021

This year Brad followed it up with Amazon Unbound , which released on May 11, 2021. Episode 263 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 13, 2021. Chronicling the dramatic growth of Amazon and Jeff. Bezos (now the richest person in the world). In this episode we interview Brad to find out all about the Amazon Unbound.

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Retail Geek

JULY 16, 2021

Episode 270 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 15, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 270 being recorded on Thursday July 15th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Transcript.

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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). Episode 265 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday May 27, 2021. 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.

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