Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Found themselves having to go to other three pll’s to sell on Amazon because Amazon just wouldn’t accept all of their goods and so if you’re going to say oh you know what I’m going to put all my eggs in Amazon’s basket and have them ship all of my.

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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. Scot: [5:08] Yes so one of the things it’s been a busy week for Amazon so. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long.

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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. Yeah so they’re a fashion brand they’re a direct-to-consumer fashion brand I mentioned that they’re based in China. US Dept of Commerce Data. Q1 E-Commerce – Up 7.7%

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

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. And this is where we. Jason: [11:03] We got on like The Today Show.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Salesforce shopping index combines data and holiday insights on the activity of more than a billion global shoppers across more than 54 countries powered by Commerce Cloud, billions of consumer engagements and millions of public social media conversations through Marketing Cloud, and customer service data powered by Service Cloud.

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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

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

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 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. In the u.s.

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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

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. Scot: [1:08] He doesn’t use a but. Scot: [4:08] Yeah it’s good for Hollywood more more jobs I guess. Scot: [0:58] Or do I Darth Vader voice. Dark side of the force.

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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 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

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

AUGUST 20, 2021

from Q2 2020, e-commerce in Q2 grew 9% during the same period (due to the very high covid driven e-com last year). Stores selling essential goods are comping against a very large 2020 basis in Q2. Scot: [2:08] Absolutely not I love Homer I probably spend more time in a Walmart than you. Year to Date sales were up 21.1%

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. post so they if you remember back in the day wish was like very slow shipping like to 26 weeks. Jason: [3:08] Yeah so it was reason via US Post Office in the u.s. on a Friday night you’re.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Scot: [15:08] Will be happy to hear they had a little bit of a rough spot too but anyway so. 2021 and compare it to the fourth quarter of 2020 now you have a good observation about prime day. Jason: [15:03] Blockbuster alumni I’m contractually prohibited from talking about Netflix. any other tidbits you saw. Scot: [36:25] Yeah.

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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 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

APRIL 7, 2023

Scot: [30:08] Young sir wall she loves it because it’s just pure margin was so much easier to sell a margin add than a product. 48:14] You know Amazon talked about how they’re seeing that they now have 600,000 skews that they ship in 90 markets same day. [48:24] They just had a hard time I think selling enough adieu.

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