EP164 - News live from ICSC OAC  http://jasonandscot.com Jason & Scot gave a presentation at the International Council of Shopping Centers Open Air Centers show in Austin Texas and got together afterward to record a news update. Amazon Project Zero - New brand protection program Walmart Earnings.  Same store sales up 4.2%, E-Com for the quarter up 43% (up 40% for the fiscal year), guidance for next year is that e-com will grow 35%.  Profitability of e-commerce continues to be a challenge for Walmart, and they expect that to continue.   Walmart stores offering "Online Grocery Pickup" (OGP)_ grew from 800 to 2100 stores this year, and is expected to grow to 3100 next year. JCPenneys Earnings. Revenue down 8.4%, same store sales down -4% (vs. 4.3% expected).  They announced the closure of 18 stores, and said to expect more in subsequent years). L Brands Earnings - Victoria's Secret same store sales down 7%, will close 53 stores. FedEx launched a new delivery robot, SameDay Bot Stamps.com dropped it's exclusive deal with USPS, a possible precursor to an Amazon partnership (or acquisition). Target launched Target Plus, a new invite only marketplace to expand Targets online assortment. Marketplace software vendor Mirikl announced a new $70M fund raise, reflecting investor confidence in the marketplace model. Jason will be at ShopTalk in Las Vegas next week and will moderate two panels: MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2019 TRACK 4, SESSION 4: 2:50PM - 3:30PM TOPIC: Selling on Marketplaces John Evons, VP, Global Direct-to-Consumer, KEEN Bridget Davies, VP, Revenue & Seller Growth EBay Jordan Bass, Head of eCommerce, The Wonderful Company TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 TRACK 2, SESSION 5: 3:35PM - 4:15PM TOPIC: Creating a Single View of the Customer Charlie Cole, Chief Ecommerce Officer, Samsonite Steve Miller, SVP, Marketing & eCommerce, JOANN Stores Greg Fancher, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Express Jason and Scot will be giving a joint presentation (and recording a live show) from ChannelAdvisor Connect in Austin on April 8th and 9th. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 164 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, February 28th, 2019. Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show: Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 164 being recorded on Thursday February 28th 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host, Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Alright alright alright hey Jason welcome back Jason Scott show listeners we are joining you live live live in the same room which rarely happens and we are here in Austin Texas at the icsc OAC conference. Jason: [0:57] That is a mouthful very impressive specially with Matthew McConaughey standing right behind you. Scot: [1:02] Yeah yes sir this is a conference that will you put her on and I have all it I'll let you introduce the conference. Jason: [1:09] So I think icsc is a Trade Organization for shopping centers and this particular event is about the, open-air centers which is like, a strip malls and power centers and lifestyle outdoor malls so it's a bunch of real estate people from retail companies and a bunch of. Individual property owners that own these these properties that host them all Z's my senses this category Mall, tends to be less aggregated in the big Regional malls where you name the three big mall operator. Scot: [1:46] Yeah I guess so it's a sold-out show about 500 folks here and fair yeah it's pretty interesting we were here doing a talk I don't want to say too much I think we're going to try to turn it into kind of a visual but video presentation so we're going to try