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. Retailers now compete with social media networks for eyeballs Apparel has shifted from designer led to consumer led, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of Shein. There were clear winners and losers. PDF Download).

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

Scot: [1:01] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. 5:15] Another hobby of I guess it was a shared one is we like to coin phrases, one of the ones that I coined was Zero friction addiction so when consumers have these low-friction experiences not only are they great.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

billion consumers are shaping shopping trends. The containers if they even got to the port or having a difficult time getting off the ship in into the domestic supply chain and people saw a headline after headline when I say people like consumers by or shoppers and they realized if they didn’t buy early in the season. [11:03]

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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] That they’re that they’re not.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

kind of smaller direct to Consumer Brands and I think those guys are right in the Wheelhouse of those impact so that absolutely was coming up. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long. kind of like a ship station they acquired point of sale system.

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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. Scot: [3:01] Yeah maybe she’s an was taken. Yeah so they’re a fashion brand they’re a direct-to-consumer fashion brand I mentioned that they’re based in China.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Major disruptions to the supply chain, the last mille, and to consumer behavior as a result of covid, will make this year extremely hard to predict and manage for brands and retailers. 5:52] A kind of predictor of future spending is this this huge survey that University of Michigan does every month the consumer confidence index.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Scot: [2:01] Yeah probably better than Chicago her have to say. 33:01] Pinterest is mostly product-centric it kind of side steps a lot of those. Jason: [2:00] Yeah I was going to say I’ll take that.

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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. Scot: [2:01] Nice.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

Like is that does that surprise you at all it has is that has that been your perception that these are Monster year that 2020 and 2021 more Monster years for retail because I feel like that’s not necessarily the narrative we’ve been getting in some of the Commerce media.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

For retail versus direct to Consumer and so when I got there or there was a there was a. [7:43] 7:43] 100 million Consolidated direct-to-consumer business which was split between catalog and e-commerce, but it was nascent it was not a strategic focus and then you know the founder of their dick ain’t really had.

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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. Scot: [37:01] Yes Pooh okay. So I’ll give you a yes.

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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. But then the growth in 2021 over 2020 was 24%. What is if you look at the average US consumer and you probably look at the.

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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: [5:17] Yeah the crazy bald super buff guy that owns his own rocket ship and then buys the company James Bond works for like I think that’s the theme for like a James Bond movies. The consumers can’t.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Episode 297 is a recap of the GroceryShop trade show in Las Vegas, and the Consumer Brands Executive Summit in Colorado Springs. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook. ? ? ? ? ? Scot: [7:10] Spin-off of the spin-off of a spinoff.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

Jason: [3:53] Yeah and I would argue also can seemingly consuming more content. And in 2020 it had to be video. I don’t know like consumer electronics which are different from something else instead you should split it into Parcels versus delivery versus bikes. [23:11]

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true.

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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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