Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Episode 313 is preview of Holiday 2023 with Rob Garf , Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. Advantageous this is after the fact I hope it is and again we’ll do our best so yeah and I’ve been I always thinking about it thinking into this conversation now at Salesforce for over 7 years but I came.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

10:05] I think that’s a legality I think I think it’s a pretty hard commitment is my reading of them and they basically say these guys are already these guys have lined up to buy at least 400 million in this offering. Regardless of the price and there’s some big names in there there what I would call.

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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

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

APRIL 8, 2022

ShopTalk held it’s first in-person show since 2019, May 27-30th in Las Vegas. Nearly 10,000 attendees joined more than 600 exhibitors at this years show. for people for a long time treat your followers shoptalk started out at the Aria as a small show and then it outgrew the Aria and they moved to the Venetian which.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Scot: [4:42] Yeah, yeah and I mean it is fun to read but you’re taking the right approach at it what drives me crazy is actually went through and looked at a bunch of the headlines for both these companies and I would say about 1/3 to 25 percent of the.

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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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Retail Geek

JULY 30, 2021

And you know SodaStream was a fast turn product and in bed bath and beyond that here they have a woman working behind a counter, pouring samples of Sodastream and they’ve launched all these SodaStream launch this new product at Bed Bath & Beyond all these. Jason: [17:20] I did in fact I didn’t try I succeed.

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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

MARCH 11, 2022

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. 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.

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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: [1:15] I did and you know in the The Venture Capital World which I am. Scot: [7:50] A couple fun facts so this is their second biggest acquisition, the only one bigger than this one was Whole Foods 13.7

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Your digital ad dollars especially as they get more complicated in the Privacy Wars, so it makes sense that they want Executives that are good at that and I would also argue the instacart. Um enough eyeballs to have real scale and instacart is one of the exceptions to that so so they are a viable place to put your.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the NYC Google HQ, for Zenith Basecamp. Scot: [1:56] Sure and congrats on that a win at Blockbuster on the digital that was that was good you crush that one yeah. ? ? ? ? Sorry for the delay since our last show.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

If you if you kind of look at the retail industry average. and they came in at 22. Jason: [4:00] Yeah so we have data from the US Department of Commerce through June and it is a really complicated story so that the top line is a little bit of a worrisome sign so year-to-date January through June of this year retail sales are 1.9

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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

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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