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

Scot: [5:09] Yeah yeah we’re we’re Pros were 300-plus episodes into this thing and this is the kind of you know Pro level that we deliver on the pod. Scot: [4:56] Yes sadly there was no Star Wars in this one so it’s that one little part of the over the Venn diagram was left is its own little circle out in space.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We spoke with the VP of Partnerships at Drizly on Episode 163. Talk about, day one and all is management principles and all that stuff so but I’m sure he’ll go do some cool new stuff how are you feeling about it Jason. In other news: Walmart is accelerating it’s automated picking for store fulfillment. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this episdoe we get the very first look at Adobe 2021 Holiday Shopping Forecast. Um the audience what your role is at at Adobe to sort of frame frame where your perspective is coming from. The where the group is actually looking at what people are buying in what quantity and what they’re actually paying for it.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUNE 25, 2021

Traditionally Prime Day has been a summer event taking place in July, for example July 15-16, 2019. 6:09] Official stated reason for This brilliant invented holiday so. 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.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Jason: [1:09] Exactly all of the above although it’s been pretty mild so far. Eric: [1:25] Sure so I run Global Communications at anchor Innovations which is essentially a fancy way of saying public relations. Eric: [1:07] Yeah means known cold and wind.

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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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