Amazon plans to split HQ2 to two cities Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities (WSJ) Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Between Long Island City, N.Y., and Arlington, Va. (NY Times) GroceryShop Recap GroceryShop is the first year of a new show focused on disruptive trends, technologies and business models in grocery & CPG that includes both established and startup CPG brands, supermarkets, c-stores, drug stores, discount stores, ecommerce players, warehouse clubs, grocerants and non-traditional grocery retailers.  The show took place October 28-31 in Las Vegas, at the Aria Hotel and Convention Center. Jason's Activities Jason interviewed Sanjiv Mehra, co-founder and CEO EOS products for a keynote fireside chat Jason moderated a panel "Evolving CPG Retailer relationships" with Constellation Brands, e.l.f. Beauty, and Fairway Market Jason moderated a panel "Using product content to build brands" with Boston Beer Company, Chobani, and The Wonderful Company Keynotes Yael Cosset, Chief Digital Officer, The Kroger Co. Andy Katz-Mayfield, Co-Founder & CEO, Harry's Sanjiv Mehra, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, eos Products Apoorva Mehta, Founder & CEO, Instacart Chieh Huang, CEO, Boxed Nina Barton, President, Global Growth, Kraft Heinz Luke Jensen, CEO, Ocado Solutions Narayan Iyengar, SVP, Digital & eCommerce, Albertsons Companies Nick Green, Co-Founder & CEO, Thrive Market Key Themes Digital Disruption of Grocery Store picking vs. Dedicated Fulfillment Center   Startup Brands vs. New products from established Companies Private Label/Owned Brands Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 150 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, November 5th, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 150 being recorded on Monday November 5th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Jason welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Jason you just recently got back from sunny and blazing hot Las Vegas Nevada for the first annual grocery store. And that's what really to see what today show is going to be is a grocery shop recap but before we jump into that we did want to cover some breaking. [1:03] Amazon news your margin is there a opportunity alright well we've been talking about this on the chauffeur about a year ago Amazon announced that they are going to look for a second headquarters that would has 50000 employees. I am if it was kind of this huge process and we're coming down to the end of it and there's two I'm confirmed reports out today, one from the Washington Post one from your times and it looks like Amazon is first of all going to split this is also not confirmed us the Wall Street Journal says Amazon's actually going to do two cities instead of one so it's kind of like HQ one and a half and hq2 and they're splitting the jobs pretty even Lisa 25,000 jobs in to eat City. The two cities that seem to be most rumored are Crystal City which is a suburb of the DC area and Northern Virginia. The other one is a suburb of New York City called Long Island City Jason what do you think about this result if it's true and how true do you think it is. Jason: [2:17] Yeah well it does sound pretty true there's a lot of rumors earlier in the week and it seem like Amazon was actively. In some cases refuting them and or scolding the leakers and they they seem completely silent about this which makes me feel like. It is on the markings pretty credible news organizations that are setting multiple sources so seems pretty credible and if it's true it. It reaffirms a lot of people's hypothesis that this was, sort of largely a marketing stunt