Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Episode 299 is a discussion of Thanksgiving Week 2022 from a retail perspective with Rob Garf , Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. Scot: [2:21] Jason had a team of 10 people at publicist set his up so don’t don’t don’t listen to him.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Mallageddon continues At least another 8k stores Yes 8721 stores +1. 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). Merge with Alibaba?

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

2023 Predictions Jason : At least 2 retail bankruptcies (besides Party City) BNPL Consolidation (Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay. Sezzle) – at least one merges/exits US or BNPL. Um there’s a lot of automation at this show so you know there’s the usual. Pick to light systems and gloves like a lot of.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. Regardless of the price and there’s some big names in there there what I would call.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 16, 2021

Scot & Matt: [2:06] Yeah course so my background is kind of really in the technology space I was a product manager most recently a Vimeo and. Behind the scenes color on our guests so I’d love to hear a little bit about your background and how you got interested in the food industry.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Still super happy with my M1 MacBook Pro so so I know M3 is at least three times better so so of course I want one but we’ll see when I pull the trigger what about you is yours already on the way. And while Jenny eyes Revenue contribution remains small management suggested Revenue quote compares favorably.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Jason: [1:07] Yeah I heard him he did a small raise this week did you you get the details of that at all. Scot: [23:22] Yeah my favorite Amazon news this week is that the sum of the press has leaked the Amazon Prime day and it’s going to be June 21 and 22 or at least that’s the rumor it hasn’t been been.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

Scot: [1:04] Sprinkle what was what was the buzz in the like the first time and well I guess in RFC some folks got together did you end up you didn’t go to. 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

JULY 16, 2021

2:48] I had a great mentor their game or Zane and he really coached me and mentored me and then atg hired me directly so after a year of that I moved to Chicago and I continued my studies and a TTG it was just the right place at the right time I architected and launched Ulta beauty.com ulta.com. grocery was the very first u.s.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Eric: [1:25] Sure so I run Global Communications at anchor Innovations which is essentially a fancy way of saying public relations. But Stephen was a senior engineer in California at Google and he had he was trying to find a new battery for his Toshiba laptop. [7:32] Eric: [2:57] Oh yeah there is.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [0:57] You should do the whole episode and jar jar speak well said Jason what’s a new at the Amazon what. Jason: [4:50] Like Freaky Friday like so like Cara is this like super famous interviewer and I am interviewing her and we’re doing it at Tara know where she started code conference so it’s very topsy-turvy.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Episode 282 is a breakdown of November Holiday and CyberWeek sales with Rob Garf, VP and GM, Retail at SalesforceVP and GM, Retail at Salesforce. Rob Garf ( @retailrobgarf ) is VP and GM, Retail at Salesforce. We cover e-commerce sales in November 2021 vs 2020 and 2019.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

His VC career includes a five year stint as partner at Andreessen Horowitz. ” You can find all things Benedict Evans at his website. And I thought actually that’s a choice now because in 2019 you either went or you didn’t do the business. And in 2020 it had to be video.

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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. The length of the event has been slowly expanding since 2015, so it is now two days long. In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020. This year Prime Day is earlier than usual on June 22-23, 2021.

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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. Jason: [3:15] Yeah awesome Scott so first of all let me start by saying on the macroeconomic picture most of the professional analysts that look at this.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

That’s how we get paid here at the Jason Scott show we get paid by per review of so we really appreciate that. [1:31] You know that didn’t have to close in April at all like they’re up 15% year-over-year largely because they they didn’t have as big a drop last year. [12:02] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41]

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. Although unique product identifiers became optional in 2019, products that don’t have them are not prioritized by Google Shopping and Google Merchant Center’s algorithm.

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