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Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.
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Scot: [2:15] Yeah they’re not a lot of good ones whatever you do don’t sign up for that paid service because it just makes your tweets take 10 times longer to go out it’s like the opposite of a feature. Assortment of items with different prices and different service levels from Amazon Fresh and from Whole Foods.
Jason: [17:48] Dsps are the third party delivery services that Amazon uses yeah. Scot: [17:52] Delivery service professionals yeah so that was interesting. The growth in 3p Services was actually faster than the retail growth as well so sort of implies that the volume went up but also Amazons. Learn more about this.
So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got. The thing that has grown a ton is you know shoptalk offers this Meetup service.
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Very profitable, doing really well you’ve got a smaller ad business super profitable doing really well growing rapidly AWS the cloud component now merchantservices which is essentially the monetization of the, Center asset you had to build for the first piece. And as I mentioned at the top third-party one today.
That groceries going to have a real decline because if you’re you know a leading Grocer in the US this this is a really scary slide at the moment you have a guess.
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. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.
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Jason: [4:20] Yeah no I think your speculation is probably spot-on you know groceries a tough business to make money like in way instacart isn’t really a grocer that are. Multi-sided market place and so it’s a little easier to make money but still the best way to make money is with that ad Network and.
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Services to other retailer. So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02]
Jason: [17:24] Yeah the in so I literally like looked at and then I might can I pay with Apple pay and then he like looked at me and said you mean NFC payment sure. [17:39] Jason: [43:18] Yeah and then when number that I was curious to get your take on so subscription Services were up for 28%. Scot: [17:23] Whoa really.
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