EP273 - Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Alex Kopco of Forum Brands 

Alex Kopco is the Founder and COO of Forum Brands, a roll-up of digitally-native consumer brands selling via Amazon.

In this interview we discuss Alex’s experiences at Target and Amazon prior to founding Forum Brands. We talk about Forum Brands specific business model and their unique tools and expertise for Amazon sellers, the Amazon FBA Roll-up trend in general, and the future of commerce.

Episode 273 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday August 19, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP272 - Q2 Ecom Data, Earnings, and Amazon News

In July retail sales were up 13.3% from previous July (down 1.1% from June). Year to Date sales were up 21.1% vs. 2020. Apparel is in the biggest recovery, up 63%.

At peak of pandemic, restaurants lost nearly $51B/mo of sales to grocery stores. In July the gap has closed to $4B in sales. Restaurants sales for the past two months are higher than two years ago.

Retail sales for all of Q2 2021 grew 28.2% from Q2 2020, e-commerce in Q2 grew 9% during the same period (due to the very high covid driven e-com last year). E-Com was 13.3% of retail sales for Q2.

• Walmart – US Comp Store sales up 5.2%, E-Commerce up 6%
• Target – US Comp Store sales up 8.9%, E-Commerce up 10%
• Home Depot– US Comp Store sales up 3.4%, E-Commerce flat
• Lowes– US Comp Store sales down 2.2%, E-Commerce up 7%

Stores selling essential goods are comping against a very large 2020 basis in Q2. Most stores saw increased foot traffic driving store growth. Concerns about Covid resurgence and supply chain disruptions loom for Q3 and Q4.

• NYT wrote that people now spend more at Amazon than Walmart – Jason says the number are debatable and that’s besides the point.
• WSJ wrote Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores. We discuss

Episode 272 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday August 20, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP271 - Amazon Q2 2021 Earnings Recap 

Jason is back on the road and has some retail store visit reports:

• Bed Bath & Beyond Flagship in Chelsea
• Harry Potter Store New York
• Google New York
• Neighborhood Goods
• Starbucks Reserve New York

Episode 271 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 30, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

Scot: [53:16] Thanks everyone for joining us and…

Jason: [53:19] Until next time happy Commercing.

EP270 - Micro Service based commerce with Kelly Goetsch 

Kelly Goetsch (@kellygoetsch) is Chief Product Officer at CommerceTools a leading MicroService based e-commerce platform, he is also the Chairman and co-founder of the MACH Alliance, a non-profit organization formed help enterprise organizations to take advantage of open tech ecosystems that are Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless. Kelly is also the author of four books.

• CommerceTools
• Mach Alliance
• State of Microservice based e-commerce platforms
• Amazon’s role in e-commerce platform ecosystem
• Shopify’s role in e-commerce platform ecosystem
• Future of e-commerce platforms

Episode 270 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 15, 2021. We’re taking a summer break next week, so no show the week of July 19th.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP269 - New CEOs at Amazon and Instacart, Other news 

Breaking News: Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO

• Jeff Bezos steps down
• Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers

• Shopify Unite 2021
• Instagram leans into commerce
• Nike earnings
• Warby Parker IPO

Episode 269 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 8, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP268 - Amazon Prime Day Recap with ChannelAdvisor CEO David Spitz

David Spitz (@davidspitz) is the CEO of ChannelAdvisor. He joins us this week to share ChannelAdvisor data from Amazon Prime Day 2021.

Amazon Prime day was launched in 2015 to celebrate Amazon’s 20th anniversary, and has become a world-wide summer shopping event. The length of the event has been slowly expanding since 2015, so it is now two days long.

Traditionally Prime Day has been a summer event taking place in July, for example July 15-16, 2019. 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.

• ChannelAdvisor view of prime day: Prime Day 2021 Wrap-up | ChannelAdvisor
• Morgan Stanley (Brian Nowak) Prime Day Recap
• Robert Baird (Colin Sebastian) Prime Day Recap
• Salesforce Prime Day Recap
• Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 sales total $11.19 billion | Digital Commerce 360
• Amazon Prime Day 2021 Insights & Real-Time Tracker | Numerator

Episode 268 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 24, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP267 - Deep Dive into Food Commerce with Matt Newberg of HNGRY

Matt Newberg (@thenewb) is the founder of HNGRY (hngry.tv). In this episode we deep dive into the rapidly changing digital grocery and digital restaurant industries.

• Changes in competition between grocery, QSR, and fast casual.
• Digital restaurant marketplaces (Door Dash, Uber Eats)
• Digital grocery marketplaces (Instacart)
• Ghost Kitchens (food industry version of private label)
• Delivery vs Pickup
• On Prem vs Off Prem Consumption
• Emerging digital grocery top-off market (GoPuff, Instacart, DoorDash)
• Amazon evolving grocery strategy (Amazon Fresh, Just Walk Out, Delivery)

Episode 267 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday June 16, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP266 - Minoan CEO Marc Hostovsky on Native Retail 

Marc Hostovsky, CEO of Monoan an innovative “Native Retail” concept. Monoan makes it easy for consumers to natively purchase products that they have tried and loved during hospitality experiences. Such as buying the bedding used in a boutique hotel room you are staying at. Marc founded Monoan after previous commerce experiences at Jet.com and Walmart. Marc can be reached at [email protected]

Episode 266 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 11, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP265 - News and Listener Questions

• Amazon acquisition of MGM
• DC attorney general sues Amazon on antitrust grounds
• Amazon limited FBA access
• Amazon addressing review fraud
• Amazon Prime Day likely June 21 and 22

• Perch (from Episode 252) raises $775M
• Walmart testing a new livestream format
• Fedex struggling with late deliveries and adding higher surchages

• Ulta – US Comps up 65.9% (up 7% from 2YA)
• Costco – US Comps up 18.2%, e-commerce up 41.2%
• Dollar General – US Comps down 4.6%; (up 17.1% from 2YA)
• Best Buy – US Comps up 37.9%, e-commerce up 7.6% (online revenue was 33.2% versus 42.2% last year)
• Burlington – Comps up 20% (shutdown e-commerce Q1 2020)
• Gap – Comps up 28% (up 13% vs 2YA). Digital up 82% vs 2 YA.  Digital now 40% of total sales.

Episode 265 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday May 27, 2021.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

EP264 - Retail Earnings, E-Commerce Quarterly Data 

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year.

Q1 E-Commerce – Up 7.7% vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020.

• Walmart – US E-Commerce up 37% YoY, same-store sales saw up 6%  YoY
• Target – US E-Commerce up 50% YoY, same-store sales saw up 18%  YoY
• Macys – US E-Commerce up 34% YoY, same-store sales saw up 62.5%  YoY
• TJ Max – Same-store sales up 16%  YoY (E-Commerce not disclosed)
• Lowes – US E-Commerce up 36,5% YoY, same-store sales saw up 11.3%  YoY
• Home Depot – Same-store sales were up 29.9%  YoY, they did not disclose e-commerce for the first time (which is usually a warning sign).

Episode 264 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 19, 2021.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.